Jerry Forrest rallies to earn draw with Zhilei Zhang
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Jerry Forrest recovered from three early knockdowns to earn a majority draw with heavyweight contender Zhilei Zhang in a 10-round bout on the Canelo Alvarez-Avni Yildirim card Saturday in Miami.
Zhang (22-0-1, 17 KOs) put Forrest (26-4-1, 20 KOs) down in each of the first three rounds, which seemed to portend a knockout for the contender from China.
However, Forrest survived and rallied from the fourth round on as Zhang grew tired to pull even in the end.
Zhang, a 2012 Olympian, was warned repeatedly for holding and leaning on the shorter Forrest and was finally docked a point in Round 9. That cost his a victory.
One judge scored it 95-93 for Forrest but the other two had it 93-93, making it a draw.
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