Karim Mayfield Remains Undefeated

Posted on | November 25, 2009 | No Comments

November 24, 2009 San Francisco, CA – This past Saturday in Oakland CA, on the under-card of the Super Six World Boxing Classic featuring Mikkel Kessler vs Andre Ward, undefeated welterweight prospect, Karim “Hard Hitta” Mayfield (11-0-1, 7 KO’s) continued his winning ways, scoring an impressive fifth round TKO over Francisco Santana (11-2, 5 KO’s). Both fighters squared off in March of 2008, with Karim winning a close split decision.

This time around, Mayfield made it more decisive and showed much improvement showing the fans in attendance that he is the superior fighter as he landed his signature overhand right while using his quick feet to avoid damage.

In the early rounds both fighters were feeling each other out but it was evident that Karim was landing the more powerful blows. As the fight progressed, Mayfield started to get in the zone as he found a home for his overhand right.

In the fifth, Karim rocked Santana with shots to the head and body forcing the Santa Barbra native to take a knee. Santana got up and Karim ended the contest with a flurry punches. The time was 2:27 of round five.

“I wanted to show everyone that I’m the real deal,” said Mayfield. “It was a great feeling to have thousands of fans cheering for me. I want to thank Sugar Shane Mosley for letting me train with him and the Garcia’s as well as management team, for making it possible for me to go to big bear to get in boss condition. I also want to thank my coach, Ben Bautista, for sharpening my tools and helping me put together a game plan to execute. To all my sparring partners at SFC Boxing Gym, thank you, and I thank Andre Ward and Dan Goossen in association with Antonio Lennard for bringing a great show to the Bay Area. I’m ready to take my career to the next level. I want to move up in the rankings and hopefully compete for a world title and become a world champion.”