Jose Salas (left) lands a straight left on Luis Guzman – Photograph courtesy of BXSTRS Promotions
One other battle, one other victory for Jose Salas.
Now combating at 118 kilos, Salas received a hard-fought unanimous choice over Luis Guzman Friday night time on the Auditorio Municipal in Salas’ hometown of Tijuana, Mexico. Scores have been 100-90, 100-90, and 98-92 for Salas, who improved to 15-0, 10 knockouts.
Salas thought he scored a knockdown within the opening spherical, sending Guzman in opposition to the ropes, which broke his fall. Replays confirmed a punch did land, however no knockdown was referred to as.
All through many of the battle, Salas displayed pace and pedigree, outboxing Guzman, who was capable of land his share of punches. The southpaw Salas started to constantly land with the left hand to the pinnacle of Guzman in spherical 4. Salas continued to outbox Guzman through the center rounds, connecting as each exchanged punches and combos within the pocket.
Guzman had his greatest moments through the seventh spherical, connecting to the pinnacle of Salas, who took the punches effectively. Salas shifted momentum his approach in spherical eight, now touchdown extra uppercuts to the pinnacle of Guzman.
Each fighters had their moments through the remaining two rounds, exchanging combos that introduced cheers from the gang. Guzman was the aggressor, however Salas did land the more-telling punches.
The 22-year-old beforehand fought on October 20, additionally on the Auditorio Municipal, Salas scoring a one-sided victory over gatekeeper Florentino Perez Hernandez. On July 29, which passed off on the undercard of the Terence Crawford-Errol Spence undisputed welterweight championship battle, Salas stopped former world title challenger Aston Palicte within the fourth spherical.
All three fights Salas fought in 2023 have been as a junior featherweight.
Guzman (now 11-4, 6 KOs) beforehand fought on March 2 in his hometown of Villahermosa, Mexico, defeating Oscar Gomez Lopez by unanimous choice. The win over Gomez passed off over 5 months after dropping a one-sided choice to prime junior featherweight prospect Tenshin Nasukawa.
Within the co-feature, welterweight Abel Ramos broke down Juan Ramon Guzman, stopping him in spherical 5. Ramos, who resides in Casa Grande, Arizona, improved to 28-6-2, 22 KOs.
Guzman was recreation, however it was all Ramos as he outboxed Guzman all through many of the battle. Ramos dropped Guzman twice through the fifth spherical, prompting a stoppage by the referee to avoid wasting Guzman from receiving additional punishment.
The 32-year-old Ramos, who’s the uncle of junior middleweight contender Jesus Ramos, had not since March 25 of final yr, dropping by unanimous choice to Cody Crowley. Previous to the loss to Crowley, in February 2022, Ramos misplaced by unanimous choice to Luke Santamaria.
In current fights, Ramos was victorious over Francisco Santana and Omar Figueroa, Jr. In February 2020, Ramos knocked out Bryant Perrella at 2:59 of the ultimate spherical. Ramos was down on all three judges’ scorecards (88-83, 88-83, and 87-84) on the time of the stoppage.
Guzman falls to 17-3-1, 13 KOs. He had received his earlier 5 fights, all by knockout and all in his hometown of close by Rosarito.
In an all-action feminine featherweight battle, Alejandra Guzman of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico defeated Mexico Metropolis’s Karina Travieso (5-4-1) by unanimous choice. Scores have been 77-75, 77-75, and 78-74 for Guzman, who improved to 14-3-2, 7 KOs.
Junior welterweight prospect Alejandro Aguilera of Tijuana dropped Mexicali’s Alexander Rico (7-4-1, 2 KOs) 3 times en path to a one-sided choice victory. Scores have been 59-53, 59-53, and 60-52 for Aguilera, who improved to 9-0-1, 2 KOs.
Within the opening bout of the BXSTRS/Alto Boxing card, light-weight Kevin Piedrahita stopped Johan Rodriguez (4-2) of Torreon, Mexico within the third spherical. Piedrahita, who’s initially from Pereira, Colombia and now resides in Celaya, Mexico, improved to 9-1, 8 KOs.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has coated boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He could be reached at [email protected]
