I scored four points on the night in the boxing challenge to Ramon Malpica's three to boost my lead to 122-107.
In the main event Srisaket Sor Rungvisai demolished Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez with a right hand that might have ended the once invincible Gonzalez's career for a fourth round knockout to retain his WBC junior bantamweight title.
Rungvisai had taken Gonzalez's title in March in New York City via majority decision in a great fight that most (including me) thought that Gonzalez deserved the victory and the WBC mandated an immediate rematch.
The rematch was far different as Rungvisai won the first three rounds on my card (although the third round could have went either way),landed several hard punches and even though Gonzalez was firing back and landed his share of punches,seemed to be less than his normal self.
In round four,Rungvisai started quickly and dropped Gonzalez with a right hand that severely hurt Gonzalez and he barely beat the count.
Gonzalez held Rungvisai at bay for a bit and looked like he might weather the storm before Rungvisai ended the bout with one right hand that ended the the night and maybe the career of Gonzalez.
Gonzalez didn't resemble anything like the fighter that was once thought of as the game best fighter pound for pound and just doesn't seem to be strong enough at 115 pounds.
Unless Gonzalez wants to return to flyweight,I just don't see him continuing at junior bantamweight unless he and his team just chalks this off as Rungvisai just being a bad matchup for him.
As for Rungvisai,he'll have another interesting and fun fight coming up that has a good chance of returning to HBO against new mandatory contender Juan Francisco Estrada,the former WBA/WBO flyweight champion.
Estrada won a unanimous decision in a title eliminator on HBO's opener over former WBC champion Carlos Cuadras.
Cuadras raced to a sizable early lead and appeared to have banked many of the early rounds.
The patient Estrada kept on doing what he does,applying pressure and wearing Cuadras down and began to hurt him in the middle rounds.
Estrada knocked Cuadras down in the tenth,scoring a two point round as he swept the final three rounds.
The knockdown won Estrada the fight as all three judges scored him a 114-113 winner.
Had Estrada not scored that knockdown,the fight would have been a draw.
I had Estrada the winner at 115-112 (7-5 in rounds with the knockdown).
The middle fight saw "The Monster" Naoya Inoue of Japan retain his WBO title with a technical knockout of an overmatched Antonio Nieves when Nieves was not allowed out of his corner at the end of round six.
Inoue knocked Nieves down with a body shot in the fifth round and then battered him badly in round six before the end of the fight.
HBO had been building Roman Gonzalez for a fight against Inoue,so there has to have been some disappointment,especially that Srisaket Sor Rungvisai got Gonzalez before Inoue did,but this card was so good as far as action,that I would not be surprised at all to see a future card with another Inoue defense along with the Rungvisai-Estrada title fight with the winner facing off in their next fight.
I finished with two points for Estrada's win and two for Inoue's.
Ramon finished with two points for Inoue's victory and one for Rungvisai's...
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