Allotey Beaten

LEMOORE, CALIFORNIA -- Unbeaten John “John” Molina (15-0-11 KOs) of Covina, Calif. flattened Ghana’s Joshua Allotey (15-7- 13 KOs) at 1:28 of the third round in the ShoBox co-feature on Friday

Early in the third, Allotey went down in a heap from a punch he claimed was south of the border. Although replays indicated otherwise, a grimacing Allotey remained on the canvas for about two-and-one-half minutes. Shortly after the match resumed, Molina connected with a picturesque left hook to the liver and that was that.

“I feel like I knocked him out twice in the same round,’’ Molina said.

“I didn’t hit him low. He was just trying to buy time. But it backfired and worked against him because the longer he stayed down the more irritated I got. My trainer, Joe Goossen, and I have been working on that punch”. SHOWTIME will replay Friday’s telecast next Thursday, Feb. 12, at 10 p.m. E.T./P.T. on SHO 2.