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(WBA) Rosendo Alvarez 49-12-2 (28) vs (IBO) Yutaka Niida 21-1-2 (6)

After a slow start for both of them, Alvarez staggered Niida with a right hand in the third and scored with several hard follow up hooks that formed puffiness under his right eye. Yutaka stunned El Buffalo in the fifth with a straight left and they traded heavily over the remainder of the stanza with Rosendo hurting him with an uppercut before the bell.

Round eight was the best for Niida so far as he strung together beautiful combinations that had Alvarez on his back foot. After two nondescript rounds Yutaka picked it back up in the final minute of the eleventh with a slew of straight left hands and he brushed off a huge right from Rosendo to outwork in the final round and take the SD, 117-113, 114-115 & 116-113


(IBF,WBC,WBO) Ricardo Lopez 43-0 (35) vs Roman Gonzalez 37-3-3 (27)

Moments into the bout Chocolito scored with a crushing right hand that buckled Ricardo's legs and Roman went after him with both hands and while he landed several hard shots, Lopez kept his wits and in the final half minute hew rocked Gonzalez with a 3 punch combo and finished the round with two vicious uppercuts. Roman appeared to have an edge during the next two rounds of rough in-fighting as he tagged Finito with some hard right hands.

Lopez made the fourth the first dominant round of the fight, stunning his foe with a 3 punch combo and blasting him with hooks to the body and short hooks and uppercuts to the head. Gonzalez stormed out for the fifth with purpose and he drove Lopez into the ropes with two hard hooks a minute in, the rest of the round Ricardo countered off the ropes with hooks and uppercuts but Gonzalez overwhelmed the action with brutal right hands and hooks in combinations.

Lopez used his jab to keep more distance in round six and he scored with right hands and hooks to the body to take the round. Chocolito worked well back on the inside in the seventh as he banged away to the body with hooks and uppercuts while he smothered Finito's offense. That changed a minute into round eight when Lopez snapped his head back with an uppercut straight into a picture perfect hook that put Gonzalez down for a five count, Finito scored well with both hands to the head and body but Gonzalez was able to keep his jab out there enough to keep the ref at bay and survive the round.

Once again the momentum abruptly changed as Gonzalez dominated rounds nine and ten with brutal hooks and uppercuts on the inside while Lopez sporadically countered with his own, a dazzling four punch combo sent Ricardo back to his corner with a rapidly swelling right eye.

Early in round eleven Lopez connected with a double jab and a straight right that buckled Roman's legs and then Finito immediately scored with another right that put him down for a five count, Lopez waded in and ripped off two uppercuts to the head before uncorking a violent hook to the body that put Gonzalez down again, he somehow arose at nine and managed to hang around over the final minute of the round without suffering much more damage.

Lopez looked arm weary early in the final round but at the half way point he started putting together marvelous combinations like a 3 punch combo to the body followed by a searing hook to the head that put Roman down for the fourth time with twenty seconds to go, he unloaded everything he had looking for the finish but the Nicaraguan refused to fold and it went to the cards. Gonzalez fought a great fight, but the knockdowns were too much to overcome and Lopez advanced with the grueling UD, 115-109, 115-111 & 113-111


Isaac Bustos 19-3-2 (5) vs Ratanapol Sor Vorapin 21-1-1 (12)

While Bustos had his moments, they were too infrequent and Sorvorapin overwhelmed him with his much more powerful shots, dropping him in the fifth with a vicious hook and battering him with both hands until the referee stepped in during round eight and stopped it partly due to a closed right eye but more so because of the one-sided nature of the contest.


Matthew Bell 39-3-1 (23) vs Ivan Calderon 41-1-1 (10)

Calderon's nonstop movement with jabs and short left hands dominated the opening round before bell was able to stun him with two hard rights in round two. Ivan got his rhythm back in the 3rd, 4th & 5th, peppering Matthew with combinations that brought some swelling to his right eye. Bell's frustration was evident as he chased after calderon in round six, but he landed two hard uppercuts late in the round that stunned the Puerto Rican. Bell was more effective over the second half of the fight, but he was never able to really get rolling and Calderon's speedy one-twos enabled him to take the UD, 117-113 & 115-113 x2