MMA Fighting has Salt Papi vs. Slim Albaher live round-by-round updates for their Prime Card showdown at the Misfits Boxing event in the AO Arena in Manchester, England on Saturday afternoon.
This fight, which will be for the vacant Misfits Boxing middleweight title, is expected to begin around 4 p.m. ET on DAZN and PPV.com pay-per-view. Check out our Prime Card results page to find out what happened on the undercard.
Salt Papi (3-1) made a name for himself in the influencer boxing scene as someone with real talent, scoring impressive knockouts in two of his first three fights. Most recently, he dropped a unanimous decision to Joe Fournier in a three-round 180-pound bout back in May, but has since trimmed down to 162 where he looks to reestablish himself as one of the best pure influencer boxers.
Slim Albaher is one of the most accomplished influencer boxers, with a professional record of 3-0, plus two successful exhibition performances to his name. Most recently, Slim won a unanimous decision over Tom Zanetti in January.
Check out the Salt Papi vs Slim Albaher live blog below:
Round 1: Salt Papi out in southpaw, Slim in orthodox and Salt Papi takes the center immediately, with Slim moving around the outside. Salt Papi lunges in but Slim ties him up and we get a break. Same thing happens again. Salt Papi trying to take the reach out of the equation and Slim just reacting right now.
Salt Papi showing some feints and then blitzes in with a nice flurry to the body! Slim backed into the corner and Salt Papi rips a mean combo. Slim blocks most of it but a few get through and he clinches. Back to space and Salt Papi lands a few good lefts to the body as Slim tries to come in on him. Not a lot of jabbing either way and Salt Papi is landing the hooks to the body.
Slim gets lazy and Salt Papi lands a nice straight left to the head and a few follow-ups. Slim trying to find some dirty boxing inside but he’s struggling to generate much. And Salt Papi continues to land as they close in on clinches.
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9 Salt Papi.
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