World-ranked mild heavyweight Richie “Popeye” Rivera received an entertaining 10-round unanimous over Devaun Lee in the primary occasion in entrance of over 4,000 followers at Mohegan Solar On line casino on Saturday night time.

The bout headlined an entertaining “Slugfest on the Solar” promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing.

Rivera confirmed his complete arsenal in opposition to Lee by preventing aggressively, and likewise entertaining followers along with his occasional ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’ preventing strikes.

Devaun Lee, an skilled 24 battle veteran from Queens, NY, is called being a tricky and harmful opponent, and, to his credit score, Lee took all of it and fired again at Rivera all through the group pleasing contest.

Rivera of Hartford, Connecticut, improved to 26-2 19KOs, with the unanimous determination win (scores of 100-90, 97-93 and 97-93).

Within the co-feature battle of two extraordinarily expert undefeated Tremendous Bantamweights, Travon Lawson (6-0, 3KO’s) of Tuscaloosa, Alabama edged out a controversial and minor upset cut up determination over Rajon Probability (8-1-1, 6 KOs) of East Orange, New Jersey.

The scores have been 78-73 Probability, 77-75 twice for Lawson.

UNDERCARD RESULTS:

Heavyweights Demek Edmonds and Luis Miguel Valera had the group howling in a wildly entertaining six spherical bout. Edmonds of Worcester, Mass. prevailed with a cut up determination win enhancing to 9-0 7KOs. Valera, a really robust Cuban now residing in Houston, Texas dropped to 4-3-2 1KO.

Sharif Rahman (son of former Heavyweight World Champ) returned to the ring with a tricky four-round determination win over Kijonti Davis in a eye-catching Middleweight bout. Rahman of Las Vegas improves to 8-0 3KO.

Undefeated Light-weight Jacob Marrero stopped Ryan Venable within the second- spherical of their scheduled four-round bout. Marrero of Bridgeport, Conn.is now 6-0 5KOs.

Louis Maietta of Bronx, New York a NYC Fireman,scored his first stoppage win in his 9 bout professional profession by stopping Erick Alves additionally within the second spherical of a scheduled four-round Tremendous Middleweight battle.