“Mr.” Gary Russell, Jr. scored a seventh-round TKO over a very game Oscar Escandon of Tolima, Colombia to keep his WBC Super Featherweight championship in the main event of the TGB Promotions card at the MGM National Harbor Casino in Oxon Hill, MD. Russell was in complete control of the contest, dropping Escandon with a solid shot in the third round.
Featherweight world titleholder Gary Russell Jr., of Capitol Heights, Maryland, has been a professional boxer since 2009 and has had 28 bouts, but he has never fought a single round in his home region of Washington, D.C. That will change when Russell ends an 11-month layoff and makes his second title defense against interim titleholder and mandatory challenger Oscar Escandon on March 11 in the main event of the first boxing event to take place at the new MGM National Harbor in Oxen Hill, Maryland, a Washington, D.C., suburb.