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Manuel "Menny" Jimenez, 10-0-1
(4), remained undefeated as he
retained his WBF strawweight
title for the first time with a
second round knockout over Luis
Carillo, 10-3-1 (9), of
Barranquilla, Colombia. The
tentative Carillo could do
enough to stay away from Jimenez
of Mexicali, Mexico, as he tried
to stay in the perimeter of the
ring while the long-armed
Jimenez boxed beautifully from
the outside.
In the second, all Jimenez
needed was to land a thunderous
right hand to the chin of
Carillo to send the Colombian
against the ropes. Jimenez set
him up with a four-punch
straight punch combo punctuated
with another right hand that
dropped Carillo again. Referee
Juan José Ramirez saw it enough
and waived off the fight.
Official time was 2:44 of the
second round.In the only all-out war of the
night, Felipe "Silencio"
Salguero, 14-2-1 (9), won a
hard-earned twelve round
unanimous decision over
Rigoberto "Planchitas" Casillas,
2-4-1 (1), both of Tijuana, for
the WBF light flyweight title.
The fight was a seesaw battle
from the opening round with both
fighters having their moments at
different points in each round
and the fight. Casillas was just
a tornado as he never stopped
throwing punches no matter how
hard Salguero landed to this
concrete chin. Casillas also had
his moments and hurt Salguero in
what seemed as at least every
other round.
In the fifth round, Salguero
seemed about to put Casillas
away as he battered him from
pillar to post but the rock-hard
Casillas stayed on his feet. In
the last third of the
championship bout Salguero began
to pull away and again had the
tired Casillas practically out
on his feet in the tenth but the
Tijuana tough guy would not go
down.
Salguero hit him with everything
except the corner stool for the
championship rounds but Casillas
to his credit made it to the
final bell. Surprisingly,
despite Salguero finishing it
off strong, once judge saw it an
even 114-114 while the other two
scored it for Salguero with
scores of 117-111 and 116-112.
The show, staged by Pro3 Sports
Entertainment in conjunction
with Erik Morales’ Box Latino,
drew 12.000 people to the open
air Caliente Stadium and was
broadcast by Televisa in Mexico.
“The World Boxing Federation
left a deep and impressive
impact on everybody involved in
this huge show,” confirmed the
WBF Continental Coordinator for
Latin America, Sergio Sotelo,
who worked tremendously hard
behind the scenes to secure this
world title doubleheader for the
WBF.
By: Felipe Leon / fightnews.com |
