Zelfa Barrett stops Jordan Gill in 10th round: Highlights and results

Body shots were the key for Zelfa Barrett in a win over Jordan Gill.

Zelfa Barrett picked up a big win in Manchester, stopping Jordan Gill in the 10th round of a very competitive super featherweight main event on DAZN.

Barrett (31-2, 17 KO) dropped Gill (28-3-1, 9 KO) twice in the 10th round due to body shots, and was able to secure the stoppage at 2:44 when referee John Latham called a halt to the bout.

It’s a key victory in sort of a make-or-break fight for the 30-year-old Barrett, who has now won three in a row since his 2022 loss to Shavkat Rakhimov in a world title fight, this one by far the biggest of the trio.

“It was vital, do-or-die, really. If I get beat tonight, where would I go?” Barrett said after the fight. “Gill, man. Tough, tough, tough fighter. He pushed me, man. This guy ain’t shot, this guy ain’t done. Top fighter. ... We worked on the body, we worked hard.”

For Gill, 29, it’s another tough setback in what has been a career full of memorable nights and good fights, win or lose.

“What a fantastic fighter,” Gill said of Barrett. “I didn’t know if he was world class or not, he proved to me he was world class. He’s a great guy, got a great team behind him, and I genuinely hope he goes on to win that world title.

“I thought the fight could have gone either way up to that point. But the more I pushed, I opened myself up to them body shots. I’ll always get up, you know me, I haven’t got any quit in me. But I couldn’t find a way back in.”

On the undercard, Ellie Scotney unified the IBF and WBO super bantamweight titles, defeating Segolene Lefebvre by unanimous decision. Judges scored the fight 96-94, 97-93, and 99-91, with the last one a bit wide for most tastes.

In another world title bout, Rhiannon Dixon won the vacant WBO lightweight title, beating Karen Elizabeth Carabajal over 10 rounds on scores of 96-93, 97-92, and 98-91.

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