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Straw Second Round
Nkosinathi Joyi 19-0-1 (13) vs Macario Santos 13-8 (4)
Joyi lived up to his top seed, rocking Santos with a double hook in the opening round, flooring him with another hook early in round two and battering him for the next twenty seconds until the ref called the fight.
WBC TITLE
Ricardo Lopez 40-0 (33) vs Asawin Sordusit 13-8 (6)
Finito pummeled his foe from the outset, dropping him with a hook late in round two and stringing together one combo after another in round three until the ref rescued a floundering Sordusit along the ropes late in the same stanza.
Leo Gamez 68-10-2 (34) vs Genki Ohnaka 13-7-1 (6)
Gamez dropped his aggressive counterpart with a right hand in round three and he maintained control over the majority of exchanges to take the UD, 97-93 x3
Matthew Bell 36-3-1 (21) vs Eric Chavez 12-9 (4)
Bell caught Chavez with an immediate right that stunned him and The American battered him with hooks and right hands until the ref stepped in with eighteen seconds left in round one.
Ivan Calderon 38-1-1 (10) vs Aswin Sithlakmuang 14-6-1 (6)
Calderon began his defense with a comprehensive domination of his Thai rival, clean combos and immaculate defense led to the UD. 99-91 x3
Ratanapol Sor Vorapin 18-1-1 (11) vs Satoru Abe 16-4-1 (3)
Sor Vorapin dominated, dropping abe seven times including three in the final round that forced the automatic stoppage.
Roman Gonzalez 34-3-3 (26) vs Kazuto Ioka 16-5 (10)
This was a fight that could well have happened later, Chocolito took command in the second with several crushing right hands. After a nip and tuck round Ioka rocked him in round three with a combo and pounded the Nicaraguan over the final thirty seconds with bombs to the body and head. Ioka had a swollen left eye entering round five and Gonzalez made it worse when he opened a foul cut over his right eye with a nasty hook during a dominant fifth round.
They went tooth and nail over the next couple of rounds until Chocolito floored him in round eight with a crushing right hand and nearly forced the stoppage with a barrage of blows over the final minute of the round. Ioka stormed back in the final six minutes and dominated behind punishing combos to the body and head that left things up in the air until the judges sided with Roman, 99-91, 96-94 & 95-95
Yutaka Niida 18-1-1 (6) vs Roberto Leyva 25-13-3 (12)
Niida and Leyva trudged along with little to choose between them and the judges couldn't either. To his credit Leyva pressed the pace, but the Japanese speedster was never in range. 94-96 & 95-95x2
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