About 25 miles north of Houston, is a town of about 50,000 people called Spring, Texas. If you have not heard of it, you are about to. Amature stand-out Roscoe Hill calls the town of Spring home. Hill is emerging as an absolute powerhouse in the international amateur scene. Not just as one of the best US amateurs but one of the best in the world. The flyweight was the lone member of Team USA to fight during the second day of boxing at the 2021 AIBA Elite Men’s World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. The Texan put on an absolute show against Mario Lavegar of the Dominican Republic. Hill seized control of the fight from the opening moments on. Dominating both the first two rounds of the affair. Taking them both 5-0 and scoring a standing 8 count in the second secured him a 10-8 round on one of the cards in the second stanza. Ahead on points, Hill didn't rest sit on his points lead. Hill jammed on the gas and continued to punish his Dominican foe unleashing a barrage of power shots again bringing in the referee to give Lavegar yet another standing 8 count. This time the referee waved off the bout at roughly the midway point of the stanza, giving the Texan the third-round TKO victory. The victory now moves him into the second round. Hill will have a few days to rest and prepare for his next opponent. He will battle with Artur Hovhannisyan of Armenia, on Monday, November 1st. Hovhannisyan was a 2016 Olympian and lost to Spaniard Samuel Carmona in the opening round.
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