LOS ANGELES — Martin Bakole likes to shout out, “I am the most avoided man in the world.”
After he went through Jared Anderson on the Terence Crawford-Israil Madrimov WBA junior middleweight title undercard on Saturday, no one may doubt him.
Bakole (21-1, 16 knockouts) pulled off a stunner at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, California, by stopping Anderson (17-1, 15 KOs) at 2:07 of the fifth round, sending Anderson down three times — once in the first and two more times in the fifth.