Abel Ramos Tops Francisco Santana By Unanimous Decision In Action-Packed Welterweight Fight
& Rising Heavyweight Efe Ajagba Scores Career-Best Victory Stopping Amir Mansour After Two Rounds
Former Bantamweight Champion Juan Carlos Payano & Rising Welterweight Prospect Eimantas Stanionis Pick Up Victories in PBC Prelims on FS1
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CARSON, קליפורניה. (מרץ 9, 2019) – WBC Welterweight World Champion שון פורטר retained his title with a close split-decision victory over יודניס אוגאסSaturday night in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on FOX and FOX Deportes from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, קליפורניה.
“The crowd was expecting a big brawl, but that’s not the way this fight needed to go tonight,” אמר פורטר. “The style that we used left the fight close. As the clock ticks, you have to do what’s working. Tonight the foot movement was working and it made Ugas have to reset.”
“I showed tonight that I belong with the elite fighters at welterweight,” סעיד אוגאס. “All I can say is that I’m ready to fight any of the top names in the division. I’ll be back.”
The early rounds were defined by Porter using his jab to try to cut down the distance, while Ugas worked power shots and jabs to the body. Porter had some success on the inside landing on Ugas’ chin during flurries, but was unable to hurt the Cuban.
בסיבוב חמישה, both men stood in the center of the ring for an extended period of time throwing power punches that had the crowd on their feet. Ugas began to work cleaner on his counterpunching as the fight went on, and Porter focused on movement while trying to snap his jab.
“I was on my toes all night,” אמר פורטר. “I was very focused the entire fight and just listening to my corner. We wanted to out box him and eventually turn it on and press him. But my dad did not think that was the smartest way to win the fight. We fought this way for 12 rounds and no one has ever seen that from me before.”
Porter’s activity clashed with the sharp countering and body punching from Ugas. לדברי Compubox, Porter was more active on a per round basis, זריקה 42.9 punches per round to 37.4 from Ugas. Ugas held the advantage in body punches landed at 57 ל 34, while the two fighters each landed 79 אגרופים כוח.
בסיבוב 10 Porter began to bleed from his right eye due to an accidental head butt, but late in round 11 he landed one of his most significant punches of the fight when he backed Ugas up with a left hook to the head. לאחר 12 סיבובים, השופטים’ scorecards reflected that there were numerous close and hard to score rounds as all three judges agreed on only the fourth and ninth rounds, which went to Ugas and Porter respectively.
One judge saw the fight 117-111 for Ugas, which was overruled by scores of 116-112 ו 115-113 for Porter. Both fighters believed after the fight that they had done enough to win.
“There’s no doubt about it, I was robbed tonight,” סעיד אוגאס. “After the first round I figured him out and dominated the fight. He had no answer when I was pushing him back. I dominated the fight in my opinion.”
“We fought a good smart fight tonight,” אמר פורטר. “I was consistent and I thought we won a majority of the rounds. We got the win, we’re still champion and we’re looking forward to what is next.”
Additional action, saw a back-and-forth welterweight contest in which הבל ראמוס(24-3-2, 18 קוס) got a unanimous decision over Francisco Santana (25-7-1, 12 קוס) לאחר 10 סיבובים.
Santana struck first, landing a clean left hook that put Ramos on the canvas late in the second round. Santana had been stalking Ramos around the ring for much of the early action, before catching him in a neutral corner for the knockdown.
“He caught me on a flash knockdown in the second round,” said Ramos. “I didn’t see the punch coming and he caught me a little bit off balance. As soon as I got up, I was good.”
Both fighters were effective in mixing up their attacks, although it was Ramos that held a 138 ל 46 advantage in jabs landed, לCompuBox. Santana’s power punching caused Ramos to begin bleeding from his nose in round six, but in round seven Ramos connected with a flurry of shots that appeared to have Santana temporarily out on his feet.
Santana was able to survive the round, but was then out landed 56 ל 26 over rounds eight and nine. Both fighters pushed forward in a 10ה and final round that saw them land a combined 68 punches out of 224 נזרק. Despite the early knockdown, Ramos was awarded the decision on all three scorecards by tallies of 98-92, 97-92 ו 95-94.
“I was very surprised by the scorecards,” said Santana. “I thought I did enough to win. It was very competitive but I was landing more significant punches. I knew he was a warrior who would come back to fight after the knockdown. I don’t know what else to do at this point, but I’ll always keep my head held high.”
“חשבתי שאני ניצחתי את הקרב,” said Ramos. “I landed more punches. I felt like I was landing all night and I was doing good clean work throughout the fight.”
In the opening bout on FOX and FOX Deportes, rising heavyweight prospect Efe Ajagba (9-0, 8 קוס) remained unbeaten and earned the best win of his young pro career by stopping veteran אמיר מנסור (23-4-1, 16 קוס) after two rounds.
Ajagba was dominant from the outset, knocking Mansour down twice in the first round. He first landed a clean straight right to Mansour that caused him to tumble to the ground. He got to his feet but was then put onto the ground by a straight left from Ajagba.
“I’ve never fought a southpaw in the pros before,” said Ajagba. “Ronnie Shields has taught me a lot and given me the plan on how to fight a southpaw and how to use my right hand against them.”
Mansour made it to the second round but continued to take a beating as Ajagba landed flush to the head consistently. After the round, referee Thomas Taylor took a long look at Mansour in his corner decided to call the fight after two rounds.
“I want to be the best heavyweight in the world,” said Ajagba. “That’s my dream. I’m going to go home and work hard and prepare for the next fight.”
PBC Prelims on FS1 preceded the main card and featured former world championחואן קרלוס פייאנו (21-2, 9 קוס) להביס ללא הפסד בעבר דמיאן ואסקס (14-1, 7 קוס) by unanimous decision after eight-rounds of bantamweight action with scores of 80-71 פעמיים ו 79-73. Additional action on FS1 saw rising welterweight prospect and 2016 Lithuanian Olympian Eimantas Stanionis (8-0, 5 קוס) score a unanimous decision victory over a game סמואל פיגרואה (11-2, 4 קוס) על ידי עשרות רבות של 80-72 three times across eight rounds of action.
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