Neither fighter endeared himself to the crowd in the third with both fighters standing and looking at each other, the highlight being an accidental bump of heads.
A very tentative Ramos would stand right in front of the lefty, taking shots during the fourth, another round heavily booed by the crowd.
Rigondeaux controlled another round as the slow tempo working for the Cuban as he pot-shotted Ramos, sending him back to his corner with a small cut alongside his right eye.
Rigondeaux held Ramos’ head down off an uppercut in the sixth before jumping in to land hard left shots. The “interim” titlist took Ramos to the ropes and a body shot sent the defending champion to the canvas. This time, Ramos couldn’t make it to his feet and Cortez called off the fight at 1:29 of the round.
Rigondeaux then called out WBO super bantamweight titlist Nonito Donaire, insisting he wants to fight the best in 2012. The Cuban also showed disdain for Ramos, who had called him an amateur fighter, disrespecting his two Olympic gold medals.
Diaz Jr. Stops Robb in Seven
Although super featherweight Joel Diaz Jr., 7-0 (6), tasted the canvas in the first round, he went on to down Guy Robb, 7-1 (3), twice in the third, taking the TKO win in the seventh round of a scheduled eight-round banger.
Undefeated coming in, both men came out gunning in the first round, with the more fluid Diaz landing the cleaner shots. Robb returned to his corner at the end of the round with a bruise underneath his left eye.
With the first round in his pocket, Diaz was caught with a right hook/uppercut and was dropped to the canvas in the second. Diaz continued while Robb dug to the body but still managed to clear his head and let his punches fly, staggering Robb once more toward the end of the round.
Diaz caught his opponent on a counter at the onset of the third, following up with a series of shots which put Robb down seconds later.
Robb was caught hard during an exchange, getting dropped again by Diaz’s volume punching but managed to get out of the round under referee Vic Drakulich’s close inspection.
The back-and-forth assault continued in the fourth, with Robb forcing his way in, taking the fight to the ropes while Diaz kept getting wider and missing. Sacramento’s Robb kept landing the better shots to the body and uppercuts, though taking some hard Diaz shots at the end of the stanza.
The war continued in the fifth as both men took turns pummeling each other. Robb was a bloody mess after taking some long-range right hands in the final minute of the round.
A hard right hand upstairs by Robb started the sixth, forcing Diaz to box more. Robb looked to land from the outside and was forced to hold in spots, clearly tired by the final seconds of the round.
After starting off hard and letting Robb back into the fight in the middle of the seventh round, Diaz came back once more to close the show, putting powerful shots together, forcing Drakulich to step in and halt the bout at 2:20 in what seemed a premature stoppage.
Villanueva Stops Ruiz in Seven
In the first fight of the televised tripleheader, hard-hitting super flyweight Matt Villanueva, 7-0-1 (7), stopped Fresno, California southpaw Michael Ruiz Jr., 8-2-1 (3), in the seventh round of a scheduled eight-rounder.
Palmdale, California’s Villanueva spent most of the first round trying to cut off the ring against a mobile southpaw in Ruiz, catching him- and his attention- toward the end of the round with a head shot.
Villanueva let his hands go in the second round, catching his opponent with punches in bunches on the inside. In all kinds of trouble, Ruiz held on but the amount of shots was too much to take and he met the canvas.
Ruiz beat referee Russell Mora’s count and somehow made it out of the round, his tormentor in hot pursuit.
Villanueva stayed on course, staying very busy in the third, as Ruiz kept trying to land a haymaker while loading up with shots from a crouching position. Villanueva began to mix-up body shots at the end of the round, going on to the fourth for the first time in his career.
Ruiz made a stand in the fourth and fifth, choosing to bang it out on the inside, though taking further punishment throughout the frames.
Villanueva’s punch output dropped in the sixth as he opted to choose his shots more carefully. As a result, the tempo slowed, surely to Ruiz’s relief.
Villanueva came back to life again in the seventh, landing a hard left hook, which took everything out of his foe. The follow-up barrage of leather raining on Ruiz forced Mora to wisely step in and call the fight at 1:04 of the round.
Judge Chuck Giampa made a big flub (possibly due to technical problems?) repeating his lines and using the “s” word upon his introduction to the broadcast team.
Razon Scores Knockdown in Final Frame to Decision Meneses for Title
Mexico City D.F., Mexico- In the All Star Promotions main event on Telemundo, Puebla, Mexico’s Ivan “Pollito” Meneses, 16-10-1 (9), moved very well while throwing shots from the outside against the shorter, less lanky Osvaldo “Chucky” Razon, 11-3 (6), Neza City, through the first two rounds.
The more deliberate Razon, who took the fight on a week’s notice, closed the gap in the third, throwing looping shots with some success. His momentum stemmed the former world title challenger Meneses’ drive after landing a hard uppercut midway into the round.
The fight went through the motions in the next couple of rounds with both men trading hard at center ring in the sixth, clashing heads and getting cautioned by the referee.
After another heated exchange in the seventh, another warning was levied on both men for another head clash. Meneses kept landing hard counter shots to the midsection and uppercuts, as a very wide-punching Razon kept missing in the second half of the round.
The hardnosed Razon did better in the following round, changing tactics and shooting straighter punches. Another clash of heads momentarily stopped the action, as the referee again warned both for coming in headfirst.
Razon kept pressuring Meneses, once again throwing looping shots. Razon lead with his head again in the ninth and clashed heads with his opponent. The referee once again cautioned the pugilists for the headbutts.
Meneses kept landing uppercuts against the incoming Razon in the 10th and 11th heats, though things would have clearly been easier for the taller fighter, if he chose to use a jab to set up his shots.
It was indeed a close fight entering the final frame when a wild right cross by Razon sent Meneses to the canvas. Off balance more than hurt, Meneses quickly got up and boxed his way to the bell.
Scores were 117-110 (twice) and 115-112 for Razon in what looked much closer than the official scores indicated. With the win, Razon picked up the WBC Latino light flyweight belt.
Quijano Bests Gallo in Fast-Paced Battle
January 21, 2011- In another Mexico vs. Puerto Rico mini-classic, Puerto Rican super flyweight David Quijano, 14-2-1 (9), went to war against Mexico’s Javier Gallo, 18-5-1 (10), for ten rounds of action. The fight brought many fans to their feet during Saturday night’s second Telefutura show of the year with PR Best Promotions at the helm at the Coliseo Pedrin Zorrilla in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Going toe-to-toe from the onset, both fighters ripped each other to the body and fired uppercuts and crosses galore. It would’ve been perfectly reasonable if either fighter succumbed under such heavy artillery.
The battle waged at full steam with Gallo spilling first blood from a cut along the left eye in the fifth round. Quijano absorbed a jarring Gallo uppercut (the best shot in the fight thus far), to bravely fight back.
Quijano stepped up the already high tempo with Gallo looking weary by the end of the sixth frame.
A series of uppercuts in the seventh had Gallo nearly out on his feet against the ropes. Gallo began to hold on before both fighters traded hooks with each other to the bell as the crowd erupted.
Fighting on pure guts, Gallo valiantly carried on. Having his moments against the onslaught coming his way, Quijano, under fresher legs, put an exclamation mark on the battle, landing a half-push/half-punch. Gallo dropped to a knee, more from exhaustion than anything else in the final ten seconds of the bout.
Scores were 98-91 (twice) and 96-93, all for Quijano.
Canales Gets off the Canvas to Score TKO Win
In the co-featured bout, lightweight Regino Canales, 4-2 (1), came back from a wicked left hook knockdown at the hands of Edgardo Rivera, 6-2-1 (5), in the first round to earn a sixth round TKO win.
The more compact Rivera seemed well on his way to an early stoppage, landing the straighter shots against a wide-punching Canales, who found a way to hang in there. Canales landed enough shots to Rivera’s right eye, forcing referee Ismael Quinones to call off the battle.
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