Jennings, Hart and Stevenson successful in NJ.

After an awakening fourth round knockdown, North Philadelphias Bryant Jennings, 24-2, 14 KOs, battled back to stop German based Alexander Dimitrenko, 41-4, 26 KOs, in the ninth round of a competitive main event at the Ocean Resort Casino.
Climbing off the canvas appeared to elevate Jennings into a more disciplined frame of mind that led him to dominate the remaining 5 sessions, completely dictating the action before scoring repeated knockdowns of the demoralised Dimitrenko.. Jennings set up and dropped the huge Russian twice in the eighth, first a delayed reaction to a left hook, then later by a cluster of shots..
Dimitrenko would hang in there until the end of the round, but would succumb to a couple of savage uppercuts moments later in the ninth.. Referee Allen Huggins waved the fight off immediately at 1:56 of the session, with Dimitrenko later appealing that he was coherent enough to continue.. The win grabbed Jennings both the NABO and the IBF-International titles..

In a scheduled 10 rounder at super middleweight, Jesse Hart, 25-1, 21 KOs, dropped Tacoma’s Mike Gavronski twice in the third, scoring a TKO at 52 seconds with a clinical performance.. Hart scored both knockdowns with solid right hands to retain his NABF title.. Gavronski, 24-3-1, 15 KOs, bravely survived both knockdowns but was deemed in no condition to continue by referee Eric Dali at the time of the stoppage..

Completing the local triple, 2016 Olympian Shakur Stevenson, Newark, NJ, elevated his pro tally to 8-0, 4 KOs, with a predictable one-sided unanimous 8-round points decision over Mexican Carlos Ruiz, 16-5-2, 6 KOs. All three scores were 80-72.