Former 154-lb champions Jarrett Hurd and Jeison Rosario fought to a 10-round draw on ProBox TV’s Wednesday night fights. Campaigning at middleweight, both fighters looked to get into the title mix with a good performance over a fellow former champ, but it didn’t work out that way for either.
Official scores were 96-94 Hurd, 96-94 Rosario, 95-95 even.
Hurd had the better jab but didn’t use it all that often and failed to follow up throughout the fight. Rosario put together the better combinations and sustained attacks, but not nearly as well as he did in his championship days.
Both fighters showed far less energy than they had in their glory days and even a big finish by Rosario in the 10th looked more like it was due to Hurd being out of gas.
Jarrett Hurd won his first belt at 154 with a 9th-round stoppage of Tony Harrison in 2017. After three successful defenses, Hurd lost multiple belts to Julian “J-Rock” Williams in 2019.
J-Rock promptly lost the belts to Rosario in 2020, then later that year Rosario gave them up to Jemell Charlo. Rosario was stopped in three of his next six fights.
After losing to Williams in 2019, Hurd went 2-2 with one of the losses by knockout.
Those setbacks made this a logical fight where the winner, if he could look impressive, would be able to vault back into title contention. Neither fighter looked impressive and there was no winner.
ProBox TV, on the other hand, was pretty impressive. Fights on YouTube for no subscription fee is a welcome sight in this era of streaming services and pay-per-views. The undercard fights were unknowns, but there was a lot of action. Over 10,000 people watched this event. This was my first time and I’ll be back in the future.
