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Lightweight Fifth Round
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. 105-3-2 (57) vs Kenny Lane 19-2-2 (2)
Lane's innate ability to make opponents look bad didn't work against 'Money". Mayweather used his own prodigious defense to negate Lane's jab and he consistently drilled him with lead right hands. Well ahead, Floyd dropped Kenny with an uppercut early in round eleven and he punished him with power shots until a combo put Lane down and out later in the round.
Tony Canzoneri 62-4-1 (24) vs Joe Brown 22-1 (12)
As expected, these two delivered a high quality Boxing match. Canzoneri used his right hand to bust open and swell up Brown's left eye. Joe stayed in it with strong combinations but Tony had the bigger moments and earned a tight UD. 116-113 x2 & 115-114
Roberto Duran 92-7-5 (69) vs Ray Mancini 38-5 (26)
Duran made mincemeat out of Mancini, punishing him with merciless body punches and brutal right hands to the head, in the third and sharp right dropped Ray for a five count and Duran battered him until the ref stepped in and stopped the one sided slaughter.
(WBO) Jose Luis Ramirez 22-1 (16) vs Aaron Pryor 59-3-1 (51)
Coming off his brutal war with Boza-Edwards, Pryor was nonetheless razor sharp in the first two rounds as he drilled JLR with punishing right hands and uppercuts during two dominant stanzas. Seconds into the third Aaron walked into a nasty uppercut that dropped him flat on his face, 'The Hawk' was up at nine but after a flurry from the Mexican a straight left dropped him again for an eight count; this wasn't balance, Pryor was in a bad way and Jose unleashed with both hands until the ref stepped in and gave Ramirez his second consecutive major upset.
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