Friday, September 28, 2018 – With another great night of world-class professional boxing at the Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla., promoter Kris Lawrence and The Heavyweight Factory returned with “Rumble at the Rock 2.”
In the 10-round main event, Honolulu, Hawaii’s undefeated Logan “The Korican Kid” Yoon 13-0(10 KOs) successfully defended his WBO-NABO Youth Junior Welterweight Title with a hard-earned unanimous decision victory over former WBA Fedecentro Super Lightweight, WBA Fedecaribe Welterweight and WBA Fedecentro Welterweight Champion John “El Emperador” Rentería 16-6-1(12 KOs) of Panama. 19-year-old Yoon worked steadily behind his jab making way for his straight left hand to get inside and was very accurate and busy with short sharp combinations. Renteria found success with his straight right-hand counter defending the constant attack but overall was outworked and outclassed by The Korican Kid in a majority of this entertaining tilt. Yoon’s’ attack was constant to the final bell winning most rounds on all scorecards. The final cards came in at 100-90 99-91 and 98-92
In the co-main event promising undefeated welterweight Livan “Machine Gun Kid” Navarro 9-0(5 KOs), a former heavily decorated amateur living in Miami via Havana Cuba squared off with once-beaten former WBC Latino Welterweight Champion and fellow Cuban Armando “The Gentleman” Alvarez 18-2(12 KOs) of Key West. In a fun, scrappy back and forth engagement, both fighters tested each other’s power, skill, and chin. Navarro came out very aggressive and mean to face the more experienced Alvarez and took an early lead outworking him with punches from every angle. Alvarez exchanged fire and started to get into a rhythm and had some nice middle rounds when Navarro seemed to slow his attack a bit. Midway through round seven The Machine Gun Kid stepped on the gas again and fought hard and more aggressive to the final bell. Navarro remains unbeaten with a unanimous decision victory with the cards reading 98-92 and 97-73 twice.
Undefeated welterweight Puerto Rican power puncher Derrieck Cuevas18-0-1(14KO) put tough Mexican veteran Silverio Ortiz 37-23(18KO) on the canvas at the very end of the third round, a product of a beautiful left hook. It seemed at this point the fight may be over, Ortiz had other plans, he came forward finding a home for his wild overhand right often set up by a big left hook to the body. Cuevas, making his debut for The Heavyweight Factory stayed focused while sharp shooting the hard-charging Mexican. Ortiz threw the overhand right so often he often caught Cuevas behind the head and was charged a valuable point in round 7, which was one of the best rounds of the fight. Cuevas was able to punch between the wild relentless overhand rights and body shots from Ortiz and won by a unanimous decision win with the cards reading 95-93 96-92 and an odd 98-90.
Fighting out of Miami via Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan’s Mussa “Warrior” Tursyngaliyev (8-0, 6 KOs) the WBA International Featherweight Champion, had his hands full with Monteira, Colombia’s Deivi “El Cabo” Bassa (20-6, 12 KOs). The “Warriors” superior footwork and counterpunching shined throughout the bout as he wore El Cabo down, with angels, counterpunching and blistering straight right hands that snuck through the high guard of the Colombian Bassa. A nice technical showing from the Kazakhstani who remains undefeated.
Featherweight Jessy Cruz 14-7-1(6KO) stopped Sergio Aguilar 2-10(2KO) at the end of round three. Often do we see an awkward fight between a southpaw and orthodox fighter, and this fight was no different including an odd ending which had Aquilar staying put on his stool when the bell sounded for round four. Round three saw its only true action of the scheduled six-rounder with a nice assault coming from “Beast Boy” Cruz, who is always in a great fight, at the end of the round. Not sure from this vantage point what made Aguilar quit, punches, heart or injury? Officially a TKO win for Cruz.
Miamian Jorge De Jesus Romero 11-0(9KO) was launching bombs on Jeno Tonte 8-4(7KO) from Budapest Hungary while working hard to keep his hard-hitting reputation intact. It was a constant attack from Romero that broke the Hungarian fighter down fast. Round three Romeros’ pressure had Tonte on a retreat of survival who was finally trapped in a corner by a barrage of punches when referee Sam Burgos stepped in to stop the action at of 2:47 of round 3.
Lightweights Dustin “DGA” Arnold 6-1(2KO) and Raul Chirino 12-10(6KO) gave the crowd a great entertaining clash. Arnold established the early rounds behind a strong jab and right hand. Chirino caught a groove in the late rounds but it was Arnold who was more accurate and landed the more meaningful punches throughout this 6 round lightweight battle. The crowd was alive and on their feet as both Arnold and Chirino fought like warriors to the final bell. The scorecards were 58-56 59-55 twice with the card.
Opening Rumble at the Rock II was Super Middleweight Cuban and former youth Amateur world Champion Irosvani Duvergel improved to 4-0(2KO) with a unanimous decision win over Emmanuel Sanchez 7-10-1(1)KO. Duvergel was hoping to get a KO in his second showing at the Hard Rock Event Center here at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, however, could not catch the fleet-footed Texan Sanchez with anything of true substance. Duvergel chased Sanchez without ever cutting the ring nor landing more than one punch at a time. All three judges scored 40-35
