By Rick Reeno

The fight was supposed to be a junior welterweight eliminator, but Ik Yang (18-2-1, 13KOs) was struggling to make the weight limit of 140 earlier this week and the fight with Lenny 'Lenny Z' Zappavigna (35-2, 25KOs) was changed to a catch-weight of 143-pounds.

This was Yang's first fight in over a year, since losing a twelve round decision to Cesar Rene Cuenca in an IBF title fight last July in Macao, China.

Lenny Z was riding a nine fight win streak that spanned back to his TKO defeat at the hands of Ammeth Diaz in 2011.

Yang was controlling the action in the first three rounds, before Lenny Z began landing some big punches in the the fourth. Lenny Za had a cut in the upper right side of his head and he was bleeding pretty bad. Given the location that cut may have come from a clash of heads.

In the sixth round, Lenny Z stunned Yang with a big hook and then pounded him against the ropes with very big punches until the referee jumped in to wave off the fight.

Edward Williams (12-1-1, 3KOs), who had an army of his fraternity brothers in the audience, won a six round unanimous decision over Christon Edwards (6-2, 3KOs) in a welterweight contest. The scores were 59-55, 59-55, 58-56. The fight was not pretty to watch with a lot of holding, but his frat brothers - reportedly 250 in attendance - cheered on very punch he three.

In a middleweight contest, Stanislav Skorokhod (11-1, 8KOs) won a six round unanimous decision over previously undefeated Hakim Bryant (6-1, 4KOs). The scores were 59-53, 60-52, 50-52.

Skorokhod dropped Bryant with a big counter left during the first and then punished him with punches to pull off a second knockdown. Bryant barely made it the first bell. Bryant actually woke up in the final minute of the second round and made it a competitive fight for the rest of the way.

Opening things up on the show, undefeated prospect Steve Nelson (3-0, 3KOs) picked up a third round stoppage over Tim Meek (5-3-1, 3KOs). [The fight took place at a catch-weight of 171-pounds].

Nelson dominated much of the first round and dropped Meek with a hard right hand in the closing seconds. Meek was bleeding from a bad cut above his left eye and pretty busted up by the end of the third round. In the first minute of the fourth, the referee had seen enough and waved off the contest.

Nelson, who fights out of Omaha, is managed by Terence Crawford's manager/coach Brian McIntyre.