McJoe Arroyo Wins IBF Junior bantamvekt VM & Amir Imam tjener Shot At 140-pund Tittel på Showtime Championship Boxing®
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STEP, TEXAS (Juli 18, 2015) - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. tjent en enstemmig avgjørelse (97-92, 98-91, 96-93) løpet Marcos Reyes i main event av SHOWTIME Championship Boxing på lørdag foran 9,245 på Don Haskins Center i El Paso, Texas.
Reyes was the more active fighter – he doubled Chavez’s output – but simply couldn’t hurt his larger opponent. Following a loss at light heavyweight last April, Chavez besluttet å forsøke å kampanje på super mellomvekt.
Chavez (49-2-1, 32 KOs), som kjempet for første gang med trener Robert Garcia, virket å være i stand til å lande hans makt skudd på vilje, however he would pick his spots and had long bouts of inactivity. Although he was working with a new trainer, Chavez fortsatte å bulldoze frem og kjempet en veldig lik kamp som han gjorde mot Andrezj Fonfara i april, denne gangen mot et mindre motstander.
“I won. This is big for me and Robert,” Chavez said. “I can do it better, but I won and that is the important thing. I’m going to fight at 168 pounds. Little by little, I’m going to get down in weight. We know we’re doing much better work in the gym.
“In the third round I hurt my left hand. I think it’s broken, Jeg vet ikke. I’ll see the doctor. With all respect to Reyes, hvis jeg ikke hadde vondt min hånd ville jeg ha slått ham ut.
“I connected on the best punches to the chin and the body. Jeg såret ham, but I couldn’t finish him because I hurt my hand. He threw a lot of punches but missed a lot. Han aldri skade meg. I felt I hurt him every time I landed.”
Etter kampen, Reyes (33-3, 24 KOs) forkynte sin sak til SHOWTIME reporter Jim Gray og pekte vekten misforhold.
“I feel I won the fight. I showed him how I box,” Reyes said. “I made the weight at 168 and he didn’t make weight. He’s like a light heavyweight fighting a middleweight.
"Jeg var mot alle odds - dommeren, vekten, alt. I think I won the fight. It’s OK – I did my best.”
I co-feature, McJoe Arroyo vant en teknisk avgjørelse i løpet av Arthur Villanueva å vinne den ledige IBF Junior bantamvekt VM etter kampen ble stoppet på 2:10 i 10th round due to a deep gash over Villanueva’s right eye. The fight went to the judges’ scorecards and Villanueva was ahead 97-92, 98-91 etter dommerne scoret 10th.
Puertoricanske Arroyo (17-0, 8 KOs) ble den tredje fighter fra øya for å vinne en 115-pound tittelen.
The lefty-righty matchup was at times highly technical and foul-filled. Referee Rafael Ramos deducted a point against Villanueva (27-1, 14 KOs) for leading with his head in the sixth. In a different clash in the sixth, a deep gash opened up over the right eye of Villanueva that ultimately led to the stoppage. Ramos ruled that the clash that opened the cut was unintentional.
Dr. Brian August inspected the cut midway through the seventh round and again after the eighth. Ramos again signaled for August to inspect the cut in the 10th and ruled that it was too deep to continue. In an interview with Jim Gray, August uttalte at han stoppet kampen i beste interesse for fighter, men at Villanueva hevdet han hadde ingen synsproblemer.
"Da han gikk inn, he was entering low. He was clashing heads a lot,” Arroyo said. “Before the fight, I knew he was a tough fighter. All Philippine fighters come to fight. I knew I had to be ready for 12 runder, boxing or brawling. It was a competitive fight but we just worked harder every round.”
På spørsmål fra Gray om det var vanskelig å finne sin rytme, Arroyo svarte, “That’s a normal thing when a southpaw fights a right hander. We were both trying to be slick and smart. That happens when two boxers with the same style fight.”
Villanueva uenige med stans og oppfordret til en umiddelbar omkamp.
"Det var en grov kamp og veldig tøft for meg etter springskalle,” Villanueva said. “I thought I won the fight. I didn’t want them to stop the fight because it was just getting into the flow. I’m disappointed with the stoppage. Jeg vet at jeg kan slå ham, og jeg vil ha en umiddelbar omkamp. "
I åpnings bout av kvelden, ubeseiret 140-pound kandidat slått ut Fernando Angulo med en dundrende rett til å tjene en obligatorisk skudd på vinneren av den planlagte fall oppgjøret mellom Viktor Postol og Lucas Matthysse for den ledige WBC Super Lett VM.
Det viste seg å være en vanskelig kamp for Imam (18-0, 15 KOs), men han var alltid kontroll og super nøyaktig, landing 54 prosent av hans makt slag sammenlignet med bare 17 for Angulo (28-10, 16 KOs). Imam ended the bout in brilliant fashion with a powerful right to Angulo’s ear, tvinge motstanderen til å falle ansikt frem til lerretet og dommeren til å umiddelbart stoppe konkurransen på :56.
“I take my hat off. He’s a good opponent,” Imam said. “I just hit him with a big shot on his ear and he was done.
“These guys get the belts and just hold it. I’m going to get the belt and hold it with pride.”
Sa Imam promoter og Hall of Fame Don King, "Det var en utmerket ytelse - akkurat hva jeg forventet og mer. You should never underestimate but pontificate when it comes to the ‘Young Master.’ We will take the belts and anyone that comes in front of us.”