NEW YORK CITY -- Steve Zemach is ringside in Madison Square Garden, covering the off-TV undercard for Saturday's HBO show headlined by Orlando Salido vs. Miguel Angel Garcia. Results for that fight plus Gennady Golovkin vs. Gabriel Rosado and Roman Martinez vs. Juan Carlos Burgos will come in a subsequent post. Read here for what happened in the fights featuring Felix Verdejo, Glen Tapia, Sean Monaghan and others...
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A four round bout between super middleweights Steven Tyner (3-10-2, 2 KOs) and Ronald Ellis (7-0, 5 KOs) opened the night at the theater in Madison Square Garden.
The 1st round started slow and nether men landed any punches of note. To start the 2nd Ellis landed an onslaught of punches that backed Tyner off. It appeared Ellis was thriving towards his 6th career stoppage before suddenly backing off and letting the 2nd round come to an end.
A left hook rocked Tyner to open the 3rd, but with roughly a minute remaining in the round Tyner gave Ell...
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