white is right
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Yes Smith won an old fashioned Spaghetti Western shoot out over Matais with a violent 5th round TKO. Picture Lee Van Cleef eating lead from Clint Eastwood.
I didn't think he could win a shoot out with the Afro-PR fighter but he beat him at his own game. He has a potential lucrative future ahead as he could fight the winner of Lopez vs Stevenson or a high profile domestic opponent or even have a rematch with Matais but I suspect only with Saudi sponsorship will this fight happen as this fight was brutal for both fighters and neither were paid super star money similar to what Lopez and Stevenson are making.
Also on Saturday Kurdish immovable object Agit Kabayel was in the process of beating down valiant Polish challenger Damian Knyba when the referee prematurely stopped the interim WBC championship due to the Pole wobbling late in the 3rd round but the Pole had never crashed to the canvas and wasn't exhausted from a long grueling bout. He looked like he was to be vanquished but let the tough Pole go out on his shield or let his corner surrender at the end of the round if they though he was too concussed to continue.
