“Cassius” Clay Collard may not have had much success in the UFC, but he’s become one of boxing’s best stories of 2020.
The MMA veteran continued his boxing winning streak with a second-round TKO of fellow MMA fighter and former GLORY kickboxer Lorawnt-T Nelson on Tuesday’s Top Rank on ESPN card. Collard normally plays the role of spoiler against undefeated prospects, as he did against David Kaminsky and in his thriller with Raymond Guajardo, but this time Top Rank matched him up as the heavy favorite.
Collard (8-2-3, 3 KOs) scored three knockdowns of Nelson (5-4, 4 KOs), whose defense was anywhere from porous to non-existent.