2024 U.S. Olympian Jahmal “Hard Rock” Harvey improved to 4-0 with a vicious second-round knockout of Hammet Keb. The 2021 world champion’s power proved too much on the Serrano-Manzur undercard a short time ago.
In latest boxing results tonight Harvey proved his class again in his short career thus far.
Some notes on the victory tonight for the American:
- Harvey improved to 4-0 with 3 knockouts after the win.
- The bout was a six-round lightweight contest at a 135-pound catchweight.
- Harvey weighed 134.0 lbs; Keb weighed 134.4 lbs at the official weigh-in.
- The fight was the co-feature on the Serrano-Manzur undercard in Temecula, California.
- Harvey is a 2024 U.S. Olympian who reached the quarterfinals in Paris.
- He won gold at the 2021 Elite World Championships, a first for an American male in 14 years.
- Harvey landed two consecutive right hands in round two to end the fight.
- The first right hand stunned Keb on his feet; the second dropped him flat.
- Harvey had already busted Keb’s nose open with body work in round one.
- The 23-year-old from Oxon Hill, Maryland trains at SwiftNation Boxing and idolizes Terence Crawford.
Bud might not be a bad inspiration to take in his career but he must forge his individual path.
Clearly plenty of American professional boxing prospects are coming through at the moment, a great thing for the sport in its continued surge and return to popularity both in the US and internationally.
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