Charles Conwell Breaks Down and Stops Wendy Toussaint at the Mohegan Sun

“ShoBox: The New Generation” returned last night with a special Wednesday edition, the first appearance of the long-running series since March. In the main event, Cleveland super welterweight Charles Conwell, a former U.S. Olympian, scored a ninth-round stoppage over Wendy Toussaint.

Conwell (13-0, 10 KOs) was making his second start since his bout with ill-fated Patrick Day in October of last year. He worked the body effectively and was comfortably ahead when he terminated the bout with a punch that broke Toussaint’s nose. With blood spurting from his fractured proboscis, Toussaint took a knee and was counted out.

It was the first pro loss for Toussaint (12-1), a 28-year-old school bus driver and volunteer firefighter from Huntington, Long Island, who is a stablemate of Joe Smith Jr.

The two TV prelims both ended in the opening round.

Janelson Figueroa Bocachica knocked out Nicklaus Flaz at the 2:43 mark. Flaz came to fight, but quickly found himself out-gunned. Bocachica knocked him down twice in the opening minute of the welterweight fight.

The 21-year-old Bocachica, a Detroiter of Puerto Rican descent who trains with former WBC 154-pound champion Tony Harrison, improved to 16-0 (11). Flaz, who hadn’t previously been stopped, fell to 9-2.

Welterweight Brandun Lee wasted no time dispatching Jimmy Williams in a bout that lasted only 94 seconds. Williams was fighting below his natural weight class and found himself sorely overmatched.

Lee knocked Williams into the ropes with a lunging left hook 45 seconds into the match. Because the ropes held him up, it was properly ruled a knockdown. Two more knockdowns would follow, the second of which was the result of a wicked combination that left Williams out cold.

The 21-year-old Lee, who is of Korean and Mexican heritage, improved to 20-0 with his 18^th knockout. The 34-year-old Williams, a former football cornerback at D-II Southern Connecticut State, fell to 16-4-2.

A fourth TV bout between undefeated super middleweights Isaiah Steen and Kalvin Henderson fell out when Henderson was forced to withdraw because of what was reported to be a non-COVID related illness. Steen is Charles Conwell’s half-brother.

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