After hearing Tim Coleman’s venomous threats to “beat him to death,” Vernon Paris enacted satisfying revenge by breaking Tim Coleman down to the body for a decisive seventh round TKO.
Each man’s anger was apparent from the first round. They exchanged hard hooks upstairs with Coleman getting the better of it by using the shoulder roll to counter Paris’s lunging shots. Due to hand speed, Coleman was able to get away with leaping left hooks and lead straight rights upstairs. But it would be Paris who ended the round strong with a three punch combination highlighted by a right hook that stunned Coleman. Paris would taunt Coleman by banging his chest at him.
Now wary of Paris’s right, Coleman stayed at mid-range and relied more on Mayweather’s shoulder roll defense. The strategy paid immediate dividends as Coleman countered Paris’s lunging right with his own straight right for a balance knockdown. Wisely, Coleman realized Paris wasn’t seriously hurt and didn’t rush his attack. Paris continued throwing the right, but this time focused to the body.
Coleman started the third strong by clocking Paris with a leaping left hook, then did a jig taunt in Paris’s face. That cockiness was soon erased when Paris froze Coleman with a left hook to the body followed by a right uppercut and another left downstairs, forcing his hated rival to clinch. Inside, Coleman landed a good left hook upstairs, but it would be Paris who held the advantage by doubling the left hook and focusing his body combinations behind Coleman’s elbows.
Round four saw Tim Coleman come back behind his own body attack on the inside. While Paris did land several 1-2s, Coleman bullied him to the ropes and let loose with scoring hooks to the head. There was still no love lost between them; the referee chastised both for talking between punches.
Paris permanently turned the bout in his favor in round five. Once again, Paris targeted Coleman’s body and hurt him with a left hook. Coleman fired back but his shots noticeably had less power. Coleman tripled his left hook to which Paris responded with a straight right. In a final show a respect, both men touched gloves a few times turning the round.
Paris stalked Coleman and stunned him with a left hook to the head. He followed up with two more left hooks and two uppercuts to force a clinch. A 1-2 pressed Coleman into the ropes and a left hook knocked him across the ring. Coleman was now target practice. Pinned against the ropes, a doubled up hook, punctuated by a body blow, put Coleman down for six seconds. With 20 seconds remaining, Coleman survived, but was dropped again via a left hook to the body.
The body assault had removed any significant fight from Coleman going into the seventh. Paris took less than 30 seconds to corner Coleman and force a referee stoppage after a third knockdown off another left hook.
Vernon Paris raised his record to 25-0, 15 KOs. Tim Coleman falls to
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