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Photos: Joshua Buatsi Beats Down Periban For TKO Win

By Boxing Photos

Published Sun Jun 02, 2019, 06:36 AM EDT

Madison Square Garden, New York City - Olympic bronze medal winner Joshua Buatsi (11-0, 9 KOs) picked up a fifth round stoppage over Marco Antonio Periban (25-5-1, 16 KOs) in a light heavyweight contest. (photos by Ed Mulholland, Mark Robinson).

Buatsi was coming off a three round blowout of Liam Conroy from back in March.

Periban was coming off a layoff of more than two years, and last saw action in May 2017 when he lost at twelve round decision to Avni Yildirim.

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Buatsi's combinations and hand speed was on full display in the first round, as he worked over Periban. After a slow second, Buatsi really began to let his hands go in the third, as he unloaded with combinations to the head of Periban.

In the fourth round, Buatsi scored a flash knockdown when he dropped Buatsi against the ropes. Periban made it up and he was stunned by a variety of big shots to force the referee to jump in and wave it off.

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