Lightweight Diego Magdaleno (25-1, 10 KOs) put on a very impressive performance going up a tough south of the border veteran in Jorge Pazos (14-7-1, 8 KOs). The fight started out looking like it was going to be a real scrap as Pazos was willing to give and take with Magdaleno. For two rounds the fighters exchanged blows and gave the crowd some good action.
By William Trillo – www.pound4pound.com
But it was in round three that we saw the beginning of the end as Magdaleno unleashed a flurry of punches that sent Pazos on his back. Pazos got up to survive the knockdown but the end was near.
In round four Magdaleno turned up the heat and you could see he was looking to bring an early end to the scheduled 10 round affair. Moments later a quick left hook to the body and uppercut to the chin dropped Pazos for good. Referee Reis gave Pazos the full ten count, there was no way he was getting up.
For the normally light hitting Magdaleno this was a solid victory that will keep his name at the top of the list of up and comers in the 135 pound division.
Here’s a handy hint for other Super Bantamweights who are thinking about taking on Jessie Magdaleno (18-0, 14 KOs). When you back this kid up into a corner don’t think you have got the young hot prospect in trouble. The truth is he has you right where he wants you.
Three times Magdaleno backed himself up into a corner and three times he put Roberto Castaneda (20-6-1, 15 KOs) down. The third time, in round 5 he did it for good. The time of the stoppage was the 2:48 mark.
Truth be told Magdaleno was fighting off the ropes all night but it’s not because his opponent was overpowering him to put him there. Instead Jesse was actually playing a bit of opossum, a “rope a dope” if you will. It worked to perfection and every time Casteneda took the bait he was rewarded with a powerful combination of blows followed by a trip to the deck. Magdaleno is a left handed firecracker and his future looks like it is about to explode into the stratosphere. Keep your eye on this one.
Super Middleweight Esquiva Falcao made his pro debut was a successful one as he stopped Joshua Robertson (5-5, 1 KOs) when referee Cantu brought the fight to a halt at the 2:37 mark of round 4. Falcao came in with all the bells and whistles of a highly touted Olympian but this young man from Brazil is a huge work in progress at best.
Letting a guy like Robertson who took the fight on one days notice go as long as he did is unacceptable. The stoppage was more from an accumulation of punches than it was any real power. If Falcao plans on making a dent in the 168 pound division he will have to develop his power punches
You normally can tell things are not going to go well for a fighter when during the ring announcement instead of giving the fighters record they just say he has been in x amount of pro fights. Such was the case for Featherweight Jose Iniguez.
He had no business being in the ring with Saul Rodriguez (12-0-1, 9 KOs) and it took Rodriguez until the 45 second mark of round two to dispatch the now 25 fight professional Iniguez.
We learned one of two things in this Lightweight battle that opened the show. Either Sukhrab Shidaev (11-0, 7 KO) KO punch is not what his record may lead us to believe or Moises Alvizo (3-8-1,2 KO’s) has the toughest set of whiskers this side of Hawaiian Gardens.
Shidaev hit Alvizo with left hooks ad infinitum and threw in a kitchen sink as well but he could not drop the concrete chinned foe. Shidaev won a unanimous decision with score of 59-55 twice and 60-54 once.
Lightweight Gary Salazar (2-0, 1 KO) dropped one left hook off the top of the head of Carlos Gonzalez (1-5-0-1, 0 KOs) and at the 1:40 mark of round one this fight was over.
Super featherweight Adam File (2-0, 1 KOs) dropped Luis Paleyo (0-1) in the first round but the fight went the full four round distance as Paleyo did his best to make a fight out of it. The fight that went to the scorecards were unanimous but all over the board reading 39-37, 39-36 and 40-35.
Someone should tell Paleyo that he would do a lot better if he didn’t fight with his head straight up and to kept his chin tucked in. Just sayin’.
