Diaz defeats Castaneda via injured hand

Joseph Diaz stayed perfect by registering a 4th round stoppage over Roberto Castaneda in a scheduled 10-round Featherweight bout at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California.

Castaneda could not continue after the 4th round due to an injured hand.

Diaz, 122 3/4 lbs of South Belmonte, CA is now 13-0 with 9 knockouts. Castaneda, 123 lbs is 21-8-1.

Julian Ramirez remained undefeated by stopping Pedro Melo on cuts after after round four of their scheduled 8-round Featherweight bout.

There was an accidental headbutt and Melo could not see.

Ramirez, 124 3/4 lbs of East Los Angeles is now 13-0 with 8 knocouts. Melo, 121 lbs of Mexico City. MX is now 9-7-2.

Diego De la Hoya scored a 5th round stoppage over Ali Gonzalez in a scheduled 6-round Featherweight bout.

De La landed a little right hand that made Gonzalez’glove touch the canvas in round two. Gonzalez started to swell around the left eye and bleed from his nose in round four. In round dive, De La Hoya landed a hard right uppercut that drove Gonzalez to the corner and then landed several unanswered shots which lead referee Raul Caiz to stop the bout at 1:40 of round five.

De La Hoya, 123 3/4 lbs of Mexicali, MX is now 8-0 with 6 knockouts. Gonzalez, 122 3/4 lbs is now 6-4.

7-foot Heavyweight Taishan scored a 1st round stoppage over Tommy Washington Jr. in scheduled 4-round bout.

Taishan landed right to the top of the head that sent Washington down for the count at 2:35 of round one.

Taishan, 286 lbs of Bejing, CHN is now now 2-0 with 2 knockouts. Washington, 281 lbs of Lansing, MI is now 3-7.

Jesus Delgado scored a 4-round unanimous decision over Rick Quevedo in a Lightweight bout.

Delgado, 133 1/2 lbs of Los Angeles won by scores of 40-36 on all cards and is now 3-0-1. Quevedo, 133 1/2 lbs of Palm Springs, CA is now 1-2.