Giovanni Segura scored a third round stoppage over Walter Tello toretain his WBA Light Flyweight title in a wild brawl in Acapulco, Mexico.
the two traded shots from the start of the fight with the much shorter Tello showing no fear by throwing wide shots in an effort to work his way inside. There was no gameplan from either guy as one could not tell if Segura or Tello was orthodox or southpaw as they just squared up and whaled away at one another for basically the whole seven minutes of action with Segura landing the harder shots.
Segura landed a bout six straight hard shots that forced referee Luis Pabon to jump in at 1:51 of round three.
Segura, 108 lbs of Bell Gardens, California made the third defense of his crown and is now 23-1 with nineteen knockouts and he expressed interest in fighting WBO champion Ivan Calderon.
Tello, 108 lbs of Panama is now 14-4.
Urbano Antillon scored a third round technical knockout over Luis Antonio Arceo following an accidental headbutt caused a cut over the left eye of Arceo in round three of their scheduled ten round Jr. Welterweight bout.
The bout was action packed from the outset as the two stood toe to toe with Antillon landing the harder shots with left hooks to the head. The two fighters clashed heads in round three that caused the cut and that forced the referee Juan Jose Ramirez to stop the bout at 2:25 of round three.
Antillon, 136 1/2 lbs was coming off his first defeat when he was stopped by Miguel Acosta last fall gets back in the win column and ups his record to 27-1 with twenty knockouts. Arceo, 136 1/2 lbs falls to 22-10-2
Son of the Legend, Omar Chavez remained undefeated by scoring a one-punch knockout over Eugenio Lopez in round one of a scheduled six round Welterweight bout.
Chavez caught Lopez with a leaping left hook and the fight was stopped without a count at 1:44 of round one.
Chavez, 147 lbs is now 20-0-1 with fifteen knockouts. Lopez, 145 1/2 lbs is now 12-16-1.
In an exciting slugfest, seventeen year old Adrian Young remained perfect as he notched his sixth knockout in as many fights as he stopped Orlando Garcia in round three of a scheduled four round Featherweight fight.
Young controlled most of the fights except a few instances when the shorter Garcia landed wild shots for which it drew a large response from the crowd.
The end came when Young landed a short to the siude of the face that froze Garcia on the ropes and referee Juan Jose Ramirez stopped the bout at 2:39 of round three.
Young, 125 1/2 lbs of Los Mochis, Mexico is now 6-0 with all wins coming early. Garcia is now 3-12
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