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TUE November 1, ROGER GORDILLO - In action this past weekend - Friday night at the Morongo Casino in Cabazon, CA, welterweight Cosme Rivera, coming off a loss to undisputed champion Zab Judah, would drop to 28-9-2, losing a unanimous decision to Mario Jose Ramos, who improves to 15-1-1.
At the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas, heavyweight giant Tye Fields stopped former WBA champion Bruce Seldon at a minute and fourteen seconds of round two of their scheduled ten round bout. Seldon drops to 35-6, while Fields record moves up to an impressive 35-1 with 32 KO’s. The 6’9 contender Fields, out of Iowa, is trained by Jesse Reid whose top fighter includes WBO Champion Lamon Brewster.
On the undercard featherweights Cristobal Cruz, 32-7-1, 21 KO’s, and Gerardo Zayas, 10-10-1, 5 KO’s, fought to a no contest as an accidental head butt caused a cut near Zayas right eye stopping their bout in the fourth round of their fight.
In Las Vegas, New Mexico, rising super bantamweight prospect Cuauhtemoc Vargas, 14-1-1, 9 KO’s, would suffer his first defeat as he was knocked out in the 8th round losing his WBC Continental Americas title to unlikely spoiler in Tomas Villa, 13-5-3, 7 KO’s.
In undercard action, featherweight Antonio Escalante would stop late sub Trinidad Mendoza at 1:40 of the third round of their bout.
Across the pond at Borough Hall in Hartlepool, England in a European (EBU), Commonwealth (British Empire) and British super bantamweight title unification match, Hartlepool native Michael Hunter would get of the canvas in the first and second rounds to win a unanimous decision over the more experienced Champion and odds favorite Esham Pickering.
On Saturday October 29th at the Desert Diamond casino in Tucson, Arizona In the inaugural boxing world cup match-up, Mexico’s six man team would beat out their Philippine opponents to win the golden diamond encrusted trophy by a 5 to 1 margin with the the card resulting as follows.
Mexican member and super bantamweight Jose German Cruz, 1-2, 1 KO’s, would stop Philippines Kosol Sor Vorapin, 9-10-1, 6 KO’s, in the cards opening match at 2:44 of the 4th round of their match.
Philippine Super Featherweight Terdsak Jandaeng, 20-1, 14 KO’s, was the only member of his team to come out victorious in the match-up by defeating Carlos Contreras, 20-11-3, 13 KO’s, via a split decision.
WBO Light Flyweight champ Hugo Cazares, 22-3-1, 16 KO’s, found himself in midst of a big-time battle as he would drop his opponent Kaichon Sor Vorapin in the second, but Vorapin, 17-8, 16 KO’s, got off his kiester he pressed the action again dropping the champ in the sixth as well. Vorapin looked to be on the verge of victory, but Cazares would catch Vorapin with a perfect shot to the chin that would soon put Vorapin lying on his face and end the match.
With the Vacant WBO Super Bantamweight title up for grabs Mexico’s Daniel Ponce De Leon, 27-1, 25 KO’s, would out work Thailand’s Sod Looknongyangtoy, 25-1, 10 KO’s. After finding himself on the canvas, De Leon would outworked his opponent to a unanimous decision with the scorecards reading 115-112 [twice] and 118-109. The match was much closer than the cards would lead you to believe as both fighters having their moments there is no way anyone should have had the bout 118-109, which left the Thai fighter in disbelief and beside himself.
Thailand’s Ratanachai Sor Vorapin would put his WBO Bantamweight Title on the line against Mexico’s Jhonny Gonzalez. At first glance what looked a long night ahead for Gonzalez as the veteran Vorapin easily controlled the first two rounds of their match, Gonzalez found his groove in the third nailing and dropping the Thai native and once again later in the sixth. At times Ratanachai would take control, but only in spurts, as it was clear that the 5’8 Mexican was just too big and strong for Vorapin. As the 7th round started, Gonzalez jumped on Vorapin unrelenting till the action was stopped 22 seconds in to round making Gonzalez the new WBO Bantamweight champion.
In the Main Event of the evening, Mexico’s Fernando Montiel, 32-1-1, 24 KO’s, would defend his WBO Super Flyweight Title against undefeated Thai Pramuansak Posuwan now 29-1-1 with 17 KO’s. In a close match that had both fighters down on the canvas, Montiel seemed just a tad better than his opponent most likely due to better opposition and championship experience. As the match progressed, Posuwan was subjected to fighting with a large Hematoma over his right eye and although Montiel won the match, he did not come out of it unscathed as he himself sported a badly bruised right eye during their fight. After twelve hard fought rounds, the judges tallies were 115-112 and 114-112 [twice] for Montiel.
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