Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-10-14, great fight between Jarrett Hurd and Austin Trout: it is close to get four stars!The undefeated Ibf light-Mw champion Jarrett Hurd entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 20-0-0 (14 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.5 super welterweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Erislandy Lara). In his last three bouts he has won over Oscar Molina, Ionut Dan Ion (=Hurd vs Dan) and Tony Harrison (=Hurd vs Harrison).
His opponent, the former Wba light-Mw champion Austin Trout, has an official record of 30-3-0 (17 knockouts) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since May 21, 2016 when he was defeated by Jermall Charlo (=Charlo vs Trout). Before this fight he had beat Luis Galarza and Joey Hernandez (=Trout vs Hernandez). Hurd vs Trout is valid for the IBF World super welterweight title (Hurd’s first defense); undercard of Erislandy Lara vs Terrell Gausha. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2017-10-14
Where: Barclays Center, New York, USA
Division: light middleweight (154 lbs, 69.9 kg)
Title: IBF World Super Welterweight title
Hurd’s previous fight: Jarrett Hurd vs Tony Harrison
Trout’s previous fight: Jermall Charlo vs Austin Trout
Hurd’s next fight: Erislandy Lara vs Jarrett Hurd
Hurd vs Trout full fight video:
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Official video
Best fight of the night by far.
Trout boxed as well as he ever has and showed a ton of heart and skill along the way. While Hurd stalks like an African-American version (more fluidity but less volume) Antonio Margarito, with pretty poor fundamentals but an absolute heap of confidence and strength this guy is a boxers nightmare.
Brilliant stuff…watch it.
Best fight of the night for me. The wily, durable boxer veteran vs. the big punching champion: six rounds of technical beauty by Trout, and then, when the blood begins to flow, Hurd is a beast awakened.
Charlo-Hurd will be a treat.
A lot of exciting rounds throughout this fight.
Cracking fight this was, respect to both guys and Trout is seriously underrated, he gives most fighters a hard hard time.
Hurd is exciting an proved his mettle but needs to work on defense
So true! For his whole career, I’ve always felt Trout was one of the most underrated fighter in the world..
trout was winning the first half of fight 2-4
Skill vs Will. Good fight. Good stoppage.
After 6 rounds, I had it 5-1 for Trout. Then, Hurd won all the other rounds on my card, so it was a draw at the time of the stoppage. Trout spent to much gas in the first rounds and he paid for that later on. Awesome fight! 4 stars.