Is this the worst professional boxer in the world? Emanuel Williams gets pummelled in the first round of his debut bout
- Emanuel Williams was making his professional debut over the weekend in Oklahoma City
- The 19-year-old from Louisiana suffers a first-round knockout after boxing erratically
Top Rank has organised some of the world’s best fights but the renowned organisation came in for stinging criticism for allowing an incompetent professional to be featured over the weekend.
Emanuel Williams was making his professional debut against fellow American John Rincon and the fight turned into a complete farce with the 20-year-old Williams unable to even protect himself, let alone looked as he had any boxing skill as he was knocked out one minute and 24 seconds into the opening round of the four-round lightweight contest.
Williams and 19-year-old Rincon were sharing the bill on the undercard to Maurice Hooker’s WBO junior lightweight defence against Alex Saucedo in Oklahoma City over the weekend.
Described by some Twitter users as “an embarrassment beyond bad”, Williams hopped around the ring before he was sent to the canvas by a thunderous left body shot from a clearly better fighter and the Louisiana-native failed to get up as the referee called the fight over.
Although Williams deserves plaudits for getting into the ring in the first place, the fight caused global outrage since the bout was shown on pay TV (ESPN) in the US. Williams eventually got up and was wandering around the ring, refusing to even stand by the referee for the official announcement.