Jermall Charlo stops Julian Williams with spectacular KO, calls out Canelo Alvarez

By DAN RAFAELvia ESPN

LOS ANGELES -- Junior middleweight titleholder Jermall Charlo and mandatory challenger Julian "J Rock" Williams let each other know often that they did not like each other leading up to their fight. And then Charlo let him know who was boss once they got into the ring.

Charlo dominated Williams before brutally knocking him out in the fifth round Saturday night in the co-feature of the Jesus Cuellar-Abner Mares featherweight world title fight at the Galen Center on the USC campus.

Charlo (25-0, 19 KOs) scored three knockdowns as he retained his 154-pound belt for the third time in a fight many believed would be the toughest of his career. Instead, it turned out to be one of the easiest and nowhere near the 50-50 fight many predicted.

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Jermall Charlo stops Julian Williams

By Dan Ambrose

Undefeated IBF World junior middleweight champion Jermall Charlo (25-0, 19 KOs) stopped previously unbeaten #1 IBF Julian "J-Rock" Williams (22-1-1, 14 KOs) in the 5th round on Saturday night at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, California. The Charlo-Williams fight was televised on Premier Boxing Champions on Showtime.

The 26-year-old Charlo dropped Williams twice in the 5th round.

The fight was halted after the second knockdown. The fight was halted by the referee at 2:06 of the 5th round. Charlo dropped Williams with a huge right uppercut to the head for the first knockdown of the round. Williams staggered to his feet and attempted to put up a fight, but he was met with a flurry of shots from Charlo. Williams was finished off with a hard hook to the head that put him down. This time the referee stepped on and halted the fight.

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Jermall Charlo stops Julian Williams in five rounds

by Doug Fischer

Jermall Charlo defended his IBF 154-pound title in impressive fashion by stopping unbeaten challenger Julian Williams in the fifth round of a Showtime-televised bout from USC’s Galen Center in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Charlo (25-0, 19 knockouts) dropped Williams with a jab in Round 2 and boxed tit-for-tat with the challenger in Rounds 3 and 4, before measuring the respected Philadelphia native with a monstrous right uppercut (after blocking a right cross from Williams) in Round 5 that produced the second knockdown of the fight. Williams (22-1-1, 14 KOs), who acquitted himself well after the first knockdown in Round 2, got up on shaky legs but tried to go on the attack, which opened him up to a counter left hook from the 26-year-old Houston native that put him down for the third and final time. Referee Wayne Hedgepeth waved it off without a full count.

Charlo celebrated the third defense of his IBF belt with a lot of passion and even some rage, no doubt fueled by the adrenaline rush of the KO victory and by the perceived disrespect from Team Williams and from doubters among hardcore boxing fans. When Charlo refused to accept Williams’ congratulations, the crowd inside the Galen Center booed him. Charlo cooled off a bit during his post-fight interview on Showtime.

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Jermall Charlo silences rival Williams with fifth round KO

One half of the unbeaten Charlo brothers sends the junior middleweight division a message with a destructive knockout of previously unbeaten Julian Williams.

LOS ANGELES, USA - Unbeaten champion Jermall Charlo stopped previously unbeaten Julian Williams in the fifth round to retain his International Boxing Federation junior middleweight title on Saturday, December 10.

The 26-year-old Charlo knocked Williams down 3 times in the much-anticipated fight en route to a fifth round TKO that improved his record to 25-0, with 19 knockouts.

He sent Williams to the canvas with a punishing right uppercut with 80 seconds left in the fifth round then finished him off with a left hook 26 seconds later.

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