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Jr Flyweight Fourth Round
Jorge Arce 66-15-1 (43) vs Leo Gamez 72-11-2 (34)
Arce came out strong and he dropped Leo with a short hook late in the opening round. Round two was once again all Arce as he ripped hooks to the body and head while Gamez struggled to keep him off of him. Leo started to use his jab in the third and he landed several clean right hands as well. They opened the fourth trading heavily and Gamez staggered him with a hook and then dropped Jorge with a huge right hand for a count of eight. The final minute was brutal for Arce as Gamez continually blasted him with hard right hands.
They swapped the next two rounds before lighting each other up in the seventh where they went toe to toe on the inside for the entire three minutes(17-15). Arce's body work started to pay dividends and he hammered Gamez in tight during a lopsided round nine. Early in the tenth he rocked Gamez with an uppercut and unleashed everything but the kitchen sink until a murderous hook crashed into Gamez' jaw and put him down for the count.
Jung-Koo Chang 40-2 (15) vs Hi-Yong Choi 38-5-1 (14)
Choi had his moments, in particularly in round eight when he staggered Chang with a right hand and connected with several clean combinations over the final minute of his best round, but Jung-Koo's relentless volume was just too much for Choi and he nearly finished him in round ten with a stream of blows to the body and head. The judges had it closer than I saw the fight, but the right guy won and Chang advanced via MD. 116-112, 115-113 & 114-114
Hugo Cazares 35-6-2 (23) vs Michael Carbajal 20-1-1 (17)
After a tight opening round Cazares imposed his size in round two, landing hard right hands and backing Michael to the ropes, he banged two hooks to the body and an uppercut opened a nasty cut on Carbajal's right eyebrow that streamed down his face. After a tight third round Carbajal came on in the fourth when he rocked Hugo with a hook and landed two hard right hands and a devastating uppercut over the final twenty-five seconds.
Carbajal dominated round five with powerful combinations that had Cazares on his heels for the majority of the round. Hugo hurt Carbajal a minute into the fifth with a debilitating hook to the body and he snapped back Michael's head with uppercuts down the stretch of the dominant stanza.
Carbajal seized control over the next few rounds and he dropped Hugo twice in round nine with pulverizing left hooks. Cazares bounced back in round ten with some solid body work and a left hook reopened the gash on carbajal's eye and the ref had the doctor look at it. Michael stayed on the outside in round eleven but early in the final round a left hook exploded blood all over Carbajal's face and to the dismay of the crowd and Carbajal's team the fight was stopped. The unlucky American was up by 5 on two cards and one on the other one.
(WBC & WBO) Beibis Mendoza 20-2 (14) vs (IBF & WBA) Myung-Woo Yuh 22-0 (8)
Yuh controlled the majority of the early going with sharp one-twos and precision footwork. Late in the fourth Mendoza connected with a huge right hand and he pressed that advantage in the fifth with hard hooks to the body and right hands to the head. That edge was short lived as Yuh was just too much, he dropped Beibis in the seventh with a cross, opened a cut under his left eye with an uppercut in round ten and went on to take the impressive UD. 118-111, 117-111 & 116-112
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