{"id":617338,"date":"2025-12-07T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617338\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:44:13","slug":"frank-martin-returns-to-brutally-ko-rances-barthelemy-in-140-pound-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/617338\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Martin Returns To Brutally KO Rances Barthelemy in 140-pound matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Martin <\/a>made a resounding return to the ring Saturday night against an aged, inactive opponent who couldn\u2019t take his power.<\/a>
In his junior welterweight debut, Martin knocked Rances Barthelemy<\/a> cold toward the end of the fourth round at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio. A straight left by Martin dropped him flat on his back and out.<\/p>\n

Referee James Green immediately waved an end to their scheduled 10-rounder with four seconds to go in the fourth. Martin, a Detroit native who resides in Dallas, dropped Barthelemy once in the first round and twice in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Back-to-back left hands by Martin (19-1, 14 KOs) sent Barthelemy (30-4-1, 15 KOs) down with 55 seconds left in the fourth. The former lightweight contender abruptly ended their bout on the Isaac Cruz-Lamont Roach undercard soon after.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt good,\u201d Martin told Premier Boxing Champions\u2019 Brian Campbell during his post-fight interview. \u201cI feel like 140, I\u2019m a lot more comfortable at this weight. I\u2019m a lot stronger at the weight. I still got my speed. I felt strong tonight. I felt a lot better than my prior two fights before this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin, 30, hadn\u2019t boxed since Gervonta Davis knocked him out<\/a> in the eighth round of their WBA lightweight title fight in June 2024 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The Cuban-born Barthelemy, 39, won world titles in two weight classes, but he hadn\u2019t fought in 19 months. He is 1-3 in his past four fights.<\/p>\n

Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Martin made a resounding return to the ring Saturday night against an aged, inactive opponent who couldn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,10188,10181,10187,10186,10179,4496,10182,10183,10184,10185,10180,10193,10192,10175,10173,10174,10190,10176,10172,10194,10189,79,10191,10171,10178,16,15,10177],"class_list":{"0":"post-617338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-results","18":"tag-boxing-schedule","19":"tag-boxing-videos","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115676699861706382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}