Boxing Match Called After Bloodied ‘Jungleman’ Takes Shot to Head

The boxing match in Southern California involving Dan “Jungleman” Cates ended within the second spherical with no winner after the poker star took what some referred to as an inexpensive shot.

Ryan “Elf” Noel, a sports activities betting present host and avid sports activities bettor, stood face-to-face within the boxing ring at The Maybourne Beverly Hills in opposition to Cates. Each fighters had been new to the game of boxing and needed to check their abilities throughout a sanctioned match throughout the new Beverly Hills Battle Membership. The match was a quickie.

Poker Participant Takes a Low cost Shot

The packed crowd for the five-fight card on Thursday night time included the controversial social media character Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer. Many different boxing followers had been in attendance to witness considered one of poker’s all-time greats step into the ring for the primary time. Jungleman, nonetheless, was a heavy underdog getting into the battle.

Cates battled by the primary spherical somehwat competively, though the spherical clearly went to Elf, earlier than Elf took what was deemed an inexpensive shot within the second spherical when he landed a haymaker to the facet of his head in opposition to a defenseless fighter.

Each fighters had ended up on the bottom following a tussle early within the second spherical. There seems to have been some confusion as to if the ref had introduced “battle” after the fighters stood again up, which led to Cates not being in a combating stance when Elf got here throughout the ring and landed the questionable low-cost shot.

Jungleman’s face was bloodied and the ref determined the very best transfer was to name off the battle. Elf was not disqualified, nonetheless, so neither fighter technically gained and it was dominated a no contest.

Elf took subject with the no contest ruling, however the determination had been made and the battle was over. PokerNews realized that Jungleman suffered a concussion from the battle however was feeling wonderful.

Cates is a two-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) champion and just lately took $15 million from Ossi “Monarch” Ketola in a heads-up poker match. He had floated the concept a couple of occasions of testing his combating abilities over the previous few years. His first match led to controversy. It is unlikely there will likely be a rematch.