Evans bulldozes a tough Bulgarian in 2
Evans and his team celebrate a job very well done
CANNOCK hope Zach Evans looked mightily impressive in demolishing usually durable Iliyan Markov in front of his home town fans.
On Scott Murray’s sell-out Sunday show at the Premier Suite, the Bulgarian was bulldozed in the second round of a scheduled four rounder.
He copped a right uppercut on the button, then a concussive left hook. That was good night Vienna for Markov.
He rose at eight on disobedient legs, lurched and referee Chris Dean rightly called a halt at 45 seconds.
I expected Evans to win against a man who has now lost 29 of 37 contests (two draws), I didn’t anticipate such a dramatic victory.
Markov has been in with the best and knows how to handle himself. Rampaging, heavy handed welter Conah Walker couldn’t budge the East European, neither could big punching Midlands champ Ashlee Eales.
Yet 26-year-old welter Evans, having his fifth bout, had Markov in deep waters from the get-go.
The local lad has a style that’s easy on the eye. He slots together combinations smoothly and, on Sunday, ended nearly every sequence with a right uppercut.
He looks one to watch.
“I’ve been working on sitting down on my shots,” Zach said afterwards. “I was settling into the pro game.
“I had some good sparring with people like Kaisee Benjamin and Niall Farrell and I thought I could stop him (Markov), I was looking for the shots.”
Evans will appear on Murray’s Excelsior Club show, also in Cannock, next month, hopes to have a six rounder under his belt by the end of June, then look to bag a Midlands title. “The idea is to build up the momentum towards titles,” he said.
Evans (11st 1lbs) began hunting down Markov (11st 2lbs) from the first bell. He worked head and body, landing a heavy right to the ribs, then connected with a long uppercut. His output was unhurried and precise.
Markov simply had no answer to what was coming his way.
He was softened up in the first, despatched in the second. Evans is a man who evidently possesses a dig.