We’re via the prelims on tonight’s Rey Vargas vs O’Shaquie Foster card from San Antonio, with a lot extra nonetheless to return!
Let’s run down the early outcomes with some highlights, with Filipino Olympic star Eumir Marcial and the debuting David Whitmire among the many winners.
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Claudio Marrero TKO-5 Gonzalo Fuenzalida
Huge respect to Chile’s Fuenzalida (12-2, 3 KO), who was taking an enormous step up and attempting his luck towards the veteran Marrero (27-5, 19 KO), however Marrero simply had an excessive amount of ability and firepower.
Fuenzalida went down on a physique shot in spherical three, went down once more on a physique shot in spherical 4, after which was completed on — you guessed it! — a physique shot in spherical 5. Marrero is campaigning at light-weight now, and whereas he’s not prone to emerge as a critical contender at 135 on condition that he’s 33 and is previous his greatest, he’s nonetheless hanging round and is a dependable man for PBC undercards.
Eumir Marcial TKO-2 Ricardo Villalba
Marcial, who gained bronze on the Tokyo Olympics for the Philippines, improves to 4-0 (2 KO) as a professional. He confirmed , snappy jab right here, and a few good energy to the physique, too, trying like he would possibly actually be getting his ft beneath him as a professional. Protection nonetheless appears to be like barely leaky to me, and he has been in bother in prior professional fights.
Marial is 27, there’s not perpetually for him to get going, and he’s a middleweight, so there might be punchers round him. However he’s an attention-grabbing elder statesman/standout beginner kind of prospect. Villalba is now 20-8-1 (8 KO) and is now 1-5 combating outdoors of Argentina.
Dainier Pero UD-4 Daniel Zavala
Zavala (2-2-2, 0 KO) is 32 and turned professional proper a few 12 months in the past. He’s gone the complete four-round distance in each battle he’s had. He’s not good, however he’s robust, and he had the stones to get into the ring with a former Olympian he had zero enterprise combating.
The larger curiosity right here, in fact, is in Pero (3-0, 2 KO), a 23-year-old Cuban and former Olympian who by no means appeared to push past 70 % velocity on this battle, and doubtless hovered nearer to 50 %.
There are numerous methods to take that, but it surely’s value noting that he displayed zero want to complete a really finish-able opponent. Pero going a full 4 right here will not be good; it might not be a real concern, however by no means is it good. The concept that he “obtained rounds” doesn’t even work right here. He might have gone for a end within the fourth.
Pay attention, possibly it’s nothing. Perhaps it’s one thing we glance again on sometime as an early signal that Pero simply didn’t have actual skilled intuition and prospects. Higher amateurs than him weren’t fairly minimize out for the professional ranks at a excessive stage.
David Whitmire TKO-1 Keith Foreman
Professional debut for Whitmire, a 17-year-old from Washington, DC. He was offered as a “junior middleweight” however he’s a welterweight; each these guys weighed in 149 or much less, nowhere close to the 154 restrict, and when fighters weigh in like that it’s simply “division under however a pair further” on the contract.
Anyway, not a lot to be taught right here. The 28-year-old Foreman (0-1) truly turned professional final September in Hidalgo, Tex., and was stopped in two by Alexis Balderas, who will not be a blue chip prospect, however that consequence was overturned by the Texas fee two months later. Foreman did come right here to battle, it’s simply that so did Whitmire, and Whitmire is quite a bit higher.
