Image via WikipediaAndy Lee knew he was in trouble going to the 10th and final round of his middleweight fight with Craig McEwan on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Arena at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.
His answer? To score a booming knockout in the top undercard bout on the show headlined by middleweight champ Sergio Martinez's title defense against junior middleweight titlist Sergiy Dzinziruk.
With a strong contingent of Irish supporters cheering him on, Lee rallied in the ninth to drop McEwan, a native of Scotland living in Los Angeles, late in the round.
McEwan, bleeding from a small cut by his left eye, survived, but not for long. He looked gassed as the 10th began and Lee went at him. Lee landed a tremendous left hand, McEwan dropped to his knees in bad shape and referee Steve Smoger called it off at 56 seconds.
Two judges had the fight 85-85 going to the final round while the third judge had McEwan ahead 86-84 of what had been an entertaining scrap.
"I was down, I was getting outboxed, I needed a knockout, or at least a knockdown in the 10th round," said Lee, a 2004 Irish Olympian who had once beaten McEwan during their standout amateur careers. "He was throwing a lot of punches. He caught me relaxing and he stunned me. I'm not that happy. I don't feel too good. I like to dominate. I had to dig deep. I didn't have my legs. I went back to the street. That's how we fight at Kronk."
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