Weekend Wrap Up: Kendall Holt More PG-13 Than "Rated R"

This weekend brought a lot of action and some unexpected results. We saw two former champions lose important bouts and another champion retain his title in bizarre fashion. At any rate this was an exciting weekend so let's get to it.

Fight Night Club

Victor Ortiz (26-2 21) KO 1O Hector Alatorre (16-9 5 KO)

Luis Ramos Jr. (13-0 7 KO) UD 4 Walter Estrada (35-12 24 KO)

Charles Huerta (12-1 7 KO) MD 6 Guadalupe De Leon (8-10 4 KO)

Huerta got a decision against a 31-year-old opponent who came to fight. De Leon has an ugly record but he came to fight Huerta. Huerta notches his second win since losing his first fight. To make mattes more interesting, De Leon beat the only man to beat Huerta.

Luis Ramos Jr. didn’t have such an easy time as Walter Estrada had no intentions of fighting. He was just in there to protect his journeymen status and never made a real attempt to win this fight. Ramos Jr. won the fight easily.

In the main event, Victor Ortiz looked to get some rounds in against Alatorre, and that’s what he did. He controlled the fight all 10 rounds before stepping on the gas. He looked solid but not spectacular and it was clear he was trying to get rounds in.

When he did step on the gas in the 10th round he totally blew Alatorre away. Alatorre gave it his all, but he just wasn’t the better man.

 

Friday Night Fights

Antonio Escalante (23-2 14 KO) UD 10 Miguel Roman (28-7 20 KO)

Danny Garcia (16-0 10 KO) SD 10 Ashley Theophane (25-4 7 KO)

Garcia got the best win of his young career against Theophane. The wily veteran from London has his moments against Garcia but fell short.

Garcia had success counterpunching and ultimately proved to be to much for the veteran. He looked good in this fight and was entertaining so I would like to see him again.

Speaking of entertaining what a main even. Escalante against Roman is an early fight of the year candidate. Roman didn’t give Escalante a moment to breath in the entire fight and boy was it exciting.

Roman was brought in as a keep busy opponent for the world rated Escalante but he almost ruined the party. He put up one hell of a fight and made Escalante fans hold their breath more than once.

Escalante floored Roman in the eighth and almost knocked Roman out in the 10th round. With the win, Escalante should be looking for a title shot some time in the near future.

To make matters more interesting Roman and his brother had bullied Escalante when they were little. They smashed his eggs while he was going home from the market. Well Escalante got the last laugh in this feud.

 

Mike Jones (20-0 16 KO) UD 10 Henry Bruseles (28-4-1 15 KO)

Kaizer Mabuza (23-6-3 14 KO) TKO 6 Kendall Holt (25-4 13 KO)

Mabuza may have ended the upper class career of Holt. This is the second loss in a row for Holt and it was against a very average opponent.

I watched some tape on Mabuza to get a feel for him and he looked like an average fighter with average or below average power. He had a good defense and a decent jab but no power punches that overwhelmed me.

He was coming off of a good win against undefeated Sergey Fedchenko, but I saw nothing that led me to believe he would beat Holt. He did have a high work rate, was aggressive, and was in good shape though.

I was very surprised to see Holt get TKO’ed. Mabuza didn’t seem to have a lot of power, but he pounded Holt for six rounds.

It appears that Holt has to go back to the drawing board. He may be done at the top level but only time will tell. It appears Holt is more PG-13 than “Rated R”.

Jones got a win over his best opponent yet in Bruseles. Bruseles had not lost since since 2005 when he lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. Nothing to exciting happened in this fight as Jones controlled the fight for most of the 10 rounds and cruised to an easy win.

 

Double Assault PPV

Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (18-0-1 15 KO) KO 4 Marvin Sonsona (14-1-1 12 KO) Vacant WBO Jr. Featherweight Title

Rodel Mayol (26-3-2 20 KO) Tech Draw 3 Omar Nino (27-3-2 11 KO) WBC Light Flyweight Title

The most controversial champion Mayol retains his title with a technical draw against Omar Nino. This was the fourth straight fight for Mayol that ended in a technical decision.

Nino clearly landed a low blow on Mayol and then knocked him out cold with a left hook. Mayol laid there motionless and was taken off on a stretcher. Due to WBC rules there will be an immediate rematch.

In a bit of an upset in my book Vazquez Jr. joined his father as a world titlist. Vazquez Jr. took over the fight in the second round and never let the 19-year-old Sonsona back into the fight.

Sonsona was a former 115-pound champion who was moving up two weights for the chance to win another title. Vazquez Jr. was just to strong and ended matters at 2:01 of the fourth with a wicked left hook to the liver.

 

Fighter of the weekend: Wilfredo Vazquez Jr.

He joined his father and joined the long list of Puerto Rican champions. He did what he was supposed to and that was beat a smaller man for a world title. He took it to the younger smaller man and imposed his will/power.

He did beat a good fighter who was a former titlist. At any rate, congratulations Wlifredo Vazquez Jr. on winning your first world title.