Regis Prograis retained his title however didn’t look something like a champion.
The 140-pound beltholder had bother catching as much as a intelligent, elusive Danielito Zorrilla however acquired sufficient executed to win a break up resolution Saturday in New Orleans, Prograis’ hometown.
The official scores had been 118-109, 117-110 and 113-114. Boxing Junkie scored it 114-113 for Zorrilla.
“I undoubtedly was assured I might get the choice,” Prograis stated afterward. “I acquired the [knockdown] early. And I saved urgent the motion. However he ran round the entire time. … He tried to outlive.”
Prograis (29-1, 24 KOs) put Zorrilla (17-2, 13 KOs) down with a left hand in Spherical 3 however had bother landed punches from starting to finish.
Zorrilla’s plan was to maneuver his toes to take care of distance and land punches from a protected place, which was considerably efficient. He didn’t land many blows however his pictures had been cleaner than Prograis’ in quite a lot of rounds and he took few pictures himself.
He put Prograis down with a tough proper within the opening spherical however the referee dominated it a slip.
Maybe that was why Prograis, the aggressor all through the battle, was leery to take the dangers essential to get shut sufficient to Zorrilla to do significant injury.
Consequently, he spent most of his time posturing and chasing greater than punching.
The 2 judges who had Prograis profitable evidently had been impressed by the very fact he at the least tried to push the motion even when he landed comparatively few punches.
Prograis was making the primary protection of the title he received by knocking out Jose Zepeda within the eleventh spherical final November. It’s his second reign as a junior welterweight beltholder.
