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Viloria Destroys Doria
By Doug Fischer (July 23, 2003)
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Flyweight prospect Brian Viloria improved to 13-0 (8) with a first-round blitz of former title challenger Luis Doria in the main event of an ESPN2-televised card from the Sea Venture Hotel & Resort in Pismo Beach, California. Doing his best imitation of Mike Tyson, Viloria hurt Doria with the first punch he threw -- a vicious left hook -- then dropped the Colombian with a series of follow-up hooks and crosses before finishing him off with a crisp hook-cross combination.
Referee Dr. Lou Moret waved the contest off at 1:14 of the first round, dropping Doria's record to 17-9-1 (10) and giving Viloria a much-needed impressive victory. After the fight, Viloria said he wasn't trying to imitate a prime "Iron Mike" but rather his gym stablemate 108-pound champ Rosendo Alvarez.
"Rosendo told me that I've been too nice to guys in recent fights, trying to touch gloves with them at the start of the fights," Viloria said. "He told me to come out and land a hard punch instead."
Viloria did just that, and his KO victory capped a night of stoppages.
In the co-featured bout, veteran bantamweight trialhorse Oscar Andrade improved to 30-22-1 (17) with a sixth-round stoppage of prospect Hugo Ramirez. The end of the entertaining slugfest came when referee Jerry Cantu stepped in after Andrade stunned and backed up Ramirez with a crisp combination. Even though Ramirez had not been floored and did not seem seriously hurt, Cantu had seen enough.
Andrade had controlled the first five rounds of the scrap with economical, accurate combination punching, but Ramirez was competitive -- always firing back, especially in round four, although with wider swinging punches. Cantu's stoppage seemed premature for a pro bout that was scheduled for 10 rounds, almost amateurish. It would have been fine if the bout were between two four-round novice fighters or if it were an amateur contest, but who can say what would have happened had it been allowed to continue?
Ramirez, who fell to 15-2 (12), had the kind of power to turn a bout around. (Remember what Emmanuel Clottey did to Muhammad Abdulaev in the 10th round of their recent 10-round junior welterweight bout? This is professional boxing. Fighters should be given a chance to continue, if they are able, and Ramirez was certainly able and willing.)
In a junior lightweight bout scheduled of six rounds, Alberto Bonilla learned that size and power often give way to skill and conditioning in the pro game. Bonilla, a natural 130 pounder who scored a first round KO in his pro debut this past Saturday, was a late sub to fight natural featherweight Jose Gonzalez. It looked like Bonilla would score another quickie KO when he decked Gonzalez with a hook in the first round, but the smaller boxer got up and gave the bigger, less experienced fighter a boxing lesson and a beating by landing sharp jabs, well-timed right hands and body punches in rounds two and three before closing the show with a mean uppercut a minute and 16 seconds into the fourth. Gonzalez improved to 5-2 (3). Bonilla dropped to 1-1 (1).
In a junior middleweight scrap, Jose Antonio Ojeda improved to 6-2 (4) with a fourth-round stoppage of 6-foot-3 southpaw Frank Mondejar. The two fighters engaged in a number of heated exchanges in rounds one and two, before the shorter Ojeda landed a right hand that may have broke Mondejar's nose. Ojeda jumped on Mondejar, who also suffered from severe swelling around both eyes, at the start of the fourth and forced referee Cantu to step in 43 seconds into the round after landing a series of furious flurries.
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