Video & Photo. Israil Madrimov backs home after Alejandro Barrera KO

The 24-year-old Uzbek junior middleweight with an array of lefts and rights downstairs and upstairs until referee Benjy Esteves mercifully called a halt to the action in the fifth round on the Gennadiy Golovkin-Sergiy Derevyanchenko undercard at Madison Square Garden.

Madrimov was welcomed at the Tashkent International Airport by Uzbek boxers, his family, a sea of fans and media.