Sounds pretty average, until you see the uppercut that Munguia landed on Johnson that tore a piece of his lip off and sent it flying outside the ring.
It literally left the ring and calling what Johnson was left with on his lip a cut is being very conservative as it took a chunk out of it.
While any loss is an unfortunate one, Johnson was just starting to gain some ground on Munguia before the ending of the fight and I would doubt that we would see a rematch.
I had Munguia slightly ahead (58-56) after six, but I think Johnson may have made the final half of the fight an interesting one.
Instead, I'll remember for that missing gouge out of Johnson's lip..
The co-feature saw a dazzling effort from slick boxing Rashidi Ellis in winning a unanimous decision over fellow unbeaten Alexis Rocha.
This was the fight that I was most looking forward to on this card, not for the action but for two talented fighters with a strong step to a higher level and I went back and forth on which fighter to select.
I chose the stronger Rocha over the faster Ellis and regretted it as Rocha was far too slow to deal with Ellis's quickness.
I had Ellis a 116-112 winner in the biggest win of his career and I'm willing to bet that few will want to face in a future eliminator.
Elwin Soto defended his WBO light flyweight title over Carlos Buitrago with a unanimous decision that seemed to be closer in my eyes than on the judges scorecards.
Soto won on one card 119-109 and 117-111 on another with the final card of 115-113 being the same as my card.
Ramon Malpica picked up six points to my three and continues his late season rally in cutting my lead to 140-135.
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