Down went Adam Harris — just like that.
Eric Fields of Ardmore knocked Harris down twice in the fourth round Thursday night to win his first fight since Jan. 10 at Remington Park Casino. Fields (13-1) earned his 11th win by knockout.
Too bad the talk of rust in Fields’ game didn’t go down as well.
“The flow of the fight was like I said (it would be),” Fields said. “It was rusty, rust, rust the first couple of rounds. I came out trying to throw too hard, and I loosened up from then on.”
Fields won each round going into the fourth. The referee stopped the cruiserweight fight after Harris (10-2), of Worcester, Mass., was knocked down a second time with 1:11 left in the frame. Fields used body shots on both knockdowns, the second one coming just seconds after the first.
The loss is Harris’ second consecutive. He hadn’t fought since Feb. 6.
“He’s a boxer, a mover,” Fields said of Harris. “The first 30 seconds, he’d stay in the middle of the ring. Then, he turned into a boxer, started moving around.”
Fields said a “bus load” of supporters made it to the casino to see only his second professional fight in Oklahoma. He beat Eric Pippin in Tulsa on Jan. 4, 2008.
Fields said he tried too hard in the early going to please the crowd.
“I was telling myself before the right, don’t go out here and try to rush it too much,” he said.
The total attendance was not available.
Fields hopes he can get in another fight by February, if not by the end of the year.
In the lightweight co-main event, Noah Zuhdi of Oklahoma City improved his record to 9-0 with a knockout of Robert Flaherty 1:49 into the second round. Zuhdi is the reigning Oklahoma lightweight champion, but his belt was not on the line.
In other fights on the card, Delray Raines won a super middleweight fight over David Robinson by TKO, 2:50 into the second, Ron Aubrey beat Marcus Brown by first-round knockout, and Mitchell Raines defeated Travis Hoffman by first-round TKO.
