ESPN2 Friday Night Fights Results

Chris Byrd vs. Shaun George

May 16, 2008

Cox Pavilion

Las Vegas, Nevada

Jr. Welterweight Bout (6 Rds)

Ruslan Provodnikov (8-0, 6 KOs) wins a unanimous decision over Brian Gordon (4-1, 4 KOs) - Judges

scored the bout 59-55, 58-56, 60-54 for Provodnikov.

Jr. Lightweight Bout (8 Rds)

Ji-Hoon Kim (14-5, 11 KOs) wins by TKO at 2:27 of the first round over Koba Gogoladze (20-3, 8 KOs)

In the first round, Gogoladze downed with a short left (up at the count of five) - the fight resumed and Kim

jumped all over Gogoladze, throwing five unanswered punches (only one really landed), sending Gogoladze

into the ropes as the ref jumped in to stop the fight.

Light Heavyweight Bout (10 Rds)

Shaun George (17-2-2, 8 KOs) wins by TKO at 2:25 of the 9th round over Chris Byrd (40-5-1, 21 KOs)

In the first round, Byrd staggered with a right and went down after trying to avoid the follow-ups (up at the

count of three). In the ninth round, Byrd downed with a left uppercut, right hook (up at the count of four) - the

fight resumed and George came in and landed two rights, a left, another right and two more lefts that sent

Byrd down into the ropes - the ref started the count as Byrd got up - when the ref reached the count of six,

Byrd told him to stop the fight. Byrd possibly injured his left shoulder when he went down the first time in the

ninth round.

(5/16/08)