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Nikita “White Chocolate” Ababiy Scores One Punch Hook TKO At MSG

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Nikita “White Chocolate” Ababiy Scores One Punch Hook TKO At MSG

In the night's opener at Madison Square Garden's big room, after the real opener, Johnathan Arroyo vs. Jordan Morales fell out, because of a Morales issue, we saw Nikita Ababiy meet and rudely greet Juan J. Barajas, in a super middleweight scrap.

Ababiy aka “White Chocolate” entered at 4-0, and came to the ring to the Beastie Boys' ode to Brooklyn. His foe, from Mexico, was 5-0.

In the first,down went the loser. He was up, after rolling around..then collapsed again. A TKO was called. He stayed on his back for a bit more,  and the Beasties blared again.

A left hook delivered as Barajas was over-loading on a right did the damage.

The end came at 41 seconds elapsed.

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