Stateside in New York this weekend we saw a tremendous World Championship triple-header in the Jr Middleweight division with Erislandy Lara taking on Terrell Gausha while Jarrett Hurd locked horns with Austin Trout in an unforgettable battle; however the big news of the night came from the fight sandwiched between those two encounters which saw the young, promising knockout artists Erickson Lubin (18-0) and Jermell Charlo (29-0) collide and duke it out for the WBC Jr Middleweight World Championship.
The fight was what it promised to be, an explosive affair with a knockout ending almost assured. But the manner in which Jermell Charlo, the identical twin brother of the undefeated former Jr Middleweight champion, Jermall Charlo. The victory has sought to raise the stock behind the evergrowing Charlo brand with an emphatic and brutal destruction of Lubin inside of 141 seconds of the first bell.Â