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HUGO RUIZ REGAINS WBC SUPER BANTAMWEIGHT WORLD TITLE WITH DEVASTATING FIRST-ROUND KO OVER JULIO CEJA
Watch The Replay Of The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® 連賽明天/星期天 在 9 A.M. AND/PT在Showtime®,
星期一, 二月. 29, 在 10 P.M. AND/PT在SHO EXTREME®
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阿納海姆, 加利福尼亞州. (二月. 27, 2016) – 獅子 “地震” 聖克魯斯 defended his WBA Featherweight World Championship in convincing fashion 週六 夜晚, knocking down 馬切達 “Sensación” 馬丁內斯 twice in the first round, then ending it on a barrage of punches as the fight was called at 2:09 in the fifth round in the main event of a 精彩表演拳擊錦標賽 doubleheader at Honda Center in Anaheim, 加利福尼亞州.
在上的共同特徵 開演時間, 29-歲 雨果·魯伊斯 (36-3, 31 科斯), 洛斯·莫奇斯, 錫那羅亞, 墨西哥, regained his WBC Super Bantamweight World Title with a devastating early knockdown with just 51 seconds into the 12-round fight against 23-year-old 七月切婭 (30-2, 27 科斯) of Atizapan De Zaragoza, 墨西哥, in a highly anticipated rematch of their August fight won by Ceja.
Fighting just 10 miles west of his hometown of La Habra and before 7,780 enthusiastic fans, the 27-year-old Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 科斯) continued to establish himself as the King of Southern California as he punished the game 29-year-old Martinez (35-7, 26 科斯) of Alicante, Valencia, 西班牙, 同 570 total punches in just five rounds. 有 1,038 total punches thrown during the fight.
“The fans love it when two fighters go toe-to-toe,” Santa Cruz told SHOWTIME’s 吉姆·格雷 after the fight. “I wanted to give the fans a great fight. I knew I could hurt him with a right hand. He’s a fighter and when he’s knocked down, he’s going to come back. In the fifth round I knew I had to finish him off and I did.”
Santa Cruz continued, “We were going toe-to-toe from the beginning. He’s was throwing good punches I was throwing out good punches and the crowd was loving it. Then my dad told me to slow down and be smarter so we started boxing.”
Santa Cruz wasted no time getting the upper hand as the opening bell rung. He knocked Martinez out twice in the first round; the first just 23 seconds into the fight and the second on a devastating right hand at two minutes into the round prompting SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING play-by-play announcer 毛羅Ranallo to tell expert analyst 鋁伯恩斯坦: “We may be able to get to Disneyland before the end of the night.”
Martinez fell into a groove in the third and fourth rounds, but got into trouble two minutes into the fifth round as Santa Cruz had him up against the ropes connecting on numerous body shots, uppercuts and combinations before referee Raul Caiz Sr. signaled the end of the fight for Santa Cruz’s second straight world title defense in Southern California.
Martinez said that Santa Cruz, “started to move a lot and he broke my strategy and he fought a great fight. The second round I was getting looser and I was starting to feel much better.
“He was like a bull coming forward really strong,” Santa Cruz added. “He has definitely been one of the strongest fighters I’ve been in the ring with yet.
“Towards the end I said, ‘this is it, this is my opportunity to take him down. If I don’t finish him right here, it’s going to make it a really tough fight.’ So I said I was going at it with my all and thankfully it turned out the way that it did.”
聖克魯斯, making his second defense after capturing the world title from 押尼珥Mares back in August, said someday he wants to break the records for most punches thrown in a fight. “I wanted to throw as many punches as I can so the fans could get a good show.”
Santa Cruz is now eyeing a future potential matchup with IBF 122-pound world champion 卡爾·弗蘭普頓 在 126 pounds or 加里·拉塞爾. “I’m up for anyone,” 他說. “I want the rematch with (押尼珥) 母親. Since Frampton won, if he’s ready to go up in weight, I’m ready for him. I challenge him to a fight whenever he’s ready.”
In a rematch of the WBC Super Bantamweight World Title he lost last August, the new 122-pound champion Ruiz improved his record to 5-0 in rematches (五擊倒) as he delivered a stunning first-round knockout against Ceja, who injured his right ankle on a powerful clean right just seconds into the fight sending him to the canvas.
Ceja got up slowly but was battered with a fury of punches and knocked out again with just 51 seconds into the fight ending the affair.
“I was very prepared to knock him out, but I was prepared to go 12 發 今晚 also if I had to,” 魯伊斯說, who was teary and emotional following the victory. “I was happy to knock him out in the first round. I’m looking for the best fighters and the best money out there.”
Said SHOWTIME analyst 保利 Malignaggi的: “I’ve never seen a first-round KO that soon in a fight of this much importance.” Added SHOWTIME’s Bernstein: “The right hand was the weapon of choice for Ruiz, and he got the job done. What a moment of redemption for Ruiz!”
眉, who beat Ruiz on a fifth-round knockout last August to win the world title, was hurt from the first series of Ruiz punches and never recovered in the intense first round.
Ceja was taken to nearby UC Irvine Hospital and diagnosed with a fractured right ankle.
“I saw that he got hurt with the first punch and I saw his leg wobbling and so I said, ‘Let’s finish’,” 魯伊斯說，. “And I did in that round.”
前 星期六 從曼徹斯特, 英國, 上 欣欣拳擊INTERNATIONAL, IBF 122-pound world champion 卡爾·弗蘭普頓 unified the super bantamweight division with a split decision victory over WBA titlist 斯科特·奎格.
The long-awaited matchup of unbeaten champions got off to a slow and tactical start, but Belfast native Frampton (22-0, 14 科斯) established himself as the aggressor and worked his jab to pocket the early rounds. Quigg didn’t come alive until after the seventh, when trainer Joe Gallagher warned his charge that he was likely down big on the judges’ 記分卡.
QUIGG (31-1-2) pounded the body and was the aggressor in rounds eight through 11, but it was too little, too late for the Lancashire, England native. Frampton won the 12日 and walked away the unified champion by scores of 115-113 for Quigg, 但 116-112 twice for Frampton.
欣欣拳擊錦標賽連賽將重新空氣本週如下:
DAY CHANNEL
明天, 星期天, 二月. 28, 3 A.M. AND/12 A.M. PT SHOW EXTREME
明天, 星期天, 二月. 28, 9 am ET/PT SHOWTIME
星期一, 二月. 29, 10 P.M. AND/PT SHOWTIME EXTREME
週六 two-fight telecast will be available at SHOWTIME ON DEMAND beginning 明天, 星期天, 二月. 28.
布萊恩·卡斯特 hosted the SHOWTIME telecast, 同 毛羅Ranallo calling the action, Hall of Fame analyst 鋁伯恩斯坦 and former two-time world champion 保利Malignaggicommentating and 吉姆·格雷 報告. 在西班牙聯播, 亞歷杭德羅·盧納 called the blow-by-blow and former world champion 勞爾·馬爾克斯 served as color commentator. The executive producer of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING was 大衛·丁勤時JR. 同 Bob Dunphy 導演.
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聖克魯斯VS. 馬丁內斯, was 12-round bout for Santa Cruz’s WBA Featherweight Title taking place on Saturday, 二月. 27 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, 加利福尼亞州。, promoted by TGB Promotions in association with Sampson Boxing Promotions and sponsored by Corona. 在共同特徵, Julio Ceja and Hugo Ruiz met in a super bantamweight world title rematch for the WBC belt. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast aired live on SHOWTIME (10 P.M. AND/7 P.M. PT) and was available in Spanish via Secondary Audio Programming (SAP).
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