Adama stops Karmazin in 9

Middleweight IBF #7 Osumanu Adama (20-2, 15 KOs) scored the biggest win of his career with a ninth round TKO over former IBF light middleweight champion and IBF #6 Roman “Made In Hell” Karmazin (40-5-2, 26 KOs) in an important IBF world title eliminator on Friday night in front of an enthusiastic crowd at “The Club” in Burbank, Illinios, a suburb of fight-starved Chicago. Adama staggered Karmazin in round five with a left hook and had him reeling around the ring in rounds eight and nine before Karmazin’s corner threw in the towel. Time was :58.

The welterweight co-feature between former WBA world champion “Vicious” Vivian Harris (29-7-1, 19 KOs) and Jermaine “Hawk” White (17-4, 9 KOs) was cancelled due to an issue with White’s bloodwork.

In an interesting ten-rounder, middleweight Eric “Murder” Mitchell (23-7-1, 11 KOs) took a split decision over local favorite Derrick “Superman” Findley (18-7, 11 KOs). Scores were 95-94, 96-93 for Mitchell, 95-94 for Findley.

“Irish” Mickey Ward and Dicky Ecklund were on hand working the corners of super middleweight “Irish” Joe McCreedy and light welterweight Sean Eklund. McCreedy (15-5-2, 6 KOs) outpointed Loren Myers (8-13-1, 2 KOs) over eight by scores of 77-75, 79-73, 78-74, while Eklund (10-4, 2 KOs) took a six-round unanimous decision over Terry Buterbaugh (6-6-2) by scores of 59-57, 60-54, 58-56.

Also heavyweight Boban Simic made his long awaited debut by stopping Caleb Grummet (1-2-1) in round three and former amateur star Junior Wright needed just 58 seconds to take out Darrion Fletcher in a cruiserweight clash.

Among those in the crowd were ring legend Thomas Hearns. The card was billed as “Chicago Fight Night III” and presented by Cynthia Tolaymat’s CFC Promotions.