LOS ANGELES: Gervonta Davis held his World Boxing Association super featherweight world title with an awful first-round knockout of previous best on the planet Hugo Ruiz on Saturday.
Unbeaten Davis satisfied his knockout-craftsman notoriety with his twentieth win inside the separation out of his 21 triumphs.
The amazing southpaw hurt Ruiz with a straight left and afterward caught up with a three-punch blend topped by a correct snare to the side of Ruiz's face that dropped the challenger to a knee.
Ruiz, blood gushing from his nose, could rise yet official Jack Reiss called a stop at 2:59 of the first round.
"Today I simply needed to put on an extraordinary execution," said Davis, who posted his twelfth straight knockout.
Ruiz was a late substitution for three-division champion Abner Mares, who pulled back from the session two weeks prior with an isolates retina in his correct eye.
Ruiz, a previous super bantamweight title holder, was falling off a consistent 12-round choice over Alberto Guevara on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao's 12-round obliteration of Adrien Broner and took the battle on 10 days' notice.
Reiss said he ceased the battle when Ruiz neglected to state in the event that he believed he could proceed.
"Ruiz didn't answer me," Reiss said. I let them know unmistakably in the changing area that you must show me you need to be in this battle.
"When I asked him 'Would you be able to proceed' in Spanish he sort of just looked down and didn't reply. He was truly harmed, that nose was broken before and after that he got hit on it once more."
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