Perhaps a star was not born at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on Friday evening, but at the very least, a solid light heavyweight contender was unveiled in the main event of ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. Tavoris Cloud, a Florida native who has been fighting out of Illinois for two years, stopped credible vet Julio Gonzalez at 2:50 of the tenth, by TKO, and is now supposed to get a crack at the IBF light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver. The Mexican-born Gonzalez (age 32, 174 pounds, 41-5 coming in) came off a loss to Reggie Johnson, while Cloud (age 26, 174, 18-0 coming) was making his FNF debut. Cloud’s statline was 280-696, while Gonzalez’ was 161-867. In the first, the former WBO 175 pound champ Gonzalez ate heavy shots from Cloud. It was all he could do to escape the first. A lead left hook, and a nasty right follow stunned...
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