On now, EN VIVO! The opening 8-rounder (Jonathan Vidal vs. Cecilio Santos) is over, and conflicted with the main event of ShoBox.
Round 1 Perez is jabbing long and chasing Terry around the ring. Terry is ducking back into the ropes and not looking to engage. Perez tries to trap him in a corner and Terry is just barely managing to make it out of the way before getting blasted. Good body hook by Perez. Another. Terry keeps backing away but gets dropped by a right hand to the body as his feet shoot out from under him. It's ruled a slip, although he clearly went down from the punch. :conf Perez keeps stalking and gallops off to his left to cut Terry off trying to circle past him. Perez gets him against the ropes and jabs high before dropping another right to the body. 10-9 Perez
Round 2 Perez comes forward patiently jabbing as Terry hugs the ropes and only pauses to hurl himself at Perez with reckless hooks to try and buy some time. Perez walks him down and watches coolly from outside as Terry flicks a jab out at his guard. Perez starts to come in on him and gets grabbed. Terry starts to move left then fakes Perez out with a quick crossover step to the right. Terry is caught with a right hand, hurt! Perez keeps plastering him with rights and lefts! Terry goes down. Perez is right on top of him a moment later, hooking to the body and drilling him in the throat with hard straight rights. Terry looks very unsteady but survives. 10-8 Perez 20-17 Perez
Round 3 Hard shots by Perez. Terry's world is rocked by hard gut-busting left hooks. Perez keeps hitting him while chasing calmly. One GIGANTIC right hand to the face finishes it, laying Terry out flat after bouncing off the ropes. The referee was already waving it off before Terry hit the canvas; no count.
Wow. Three minutes later Terry is still out flat on his back not moving a muscle, face very bloody. :scaredas:
While it's cool that they "extended" Solo Boxeo's timeslot to a 2 hour format, it's a little weird and borderline ridiculous how they've done it. Basically Solo Boxeo Tecate still runs from 11:30pm to 1am EST. Then from 1am to 1:30am is Solo Boxeo Tecate Extra, which they treat as a separate show even though it's basically a continuation of the same program (same card, same commentators). It's just a chance to showcase more young prospects and guarantee that they can air a walkout bout after the main event. That's cool and all..but when the main event ends early like tonight they'll just kill time for twenty minutes until Solo Boxeo Tecate Extra starts, rather than just go into the next fight already. atsch Since the ending of Perez vs. Terry, they have cut to and then back from commercial about half a dozen times, with Bernardo Osuna and his cohost just awkwardly chatting about upcoming and recent boxing events. Now we get to the first (possibly only) Extra match - 1-0 Braulio Santos vs. 0-1 Felix Rivera - 4 rounds @ featherweight.
Round 1 Santos cares not for defense as he comes blasting his way in. Santos is landing well on Rivera but is also getting caught flush with skull-rocking uppercuts. Rivera is down from a body shot! On his hands and knees - not getting up! Wow. Rivera is in serious pain. Like Terry earlier, he's just lying there...motionless splayed out across the Tecate logo.
Now we get 7-1 (5) Jonuel Tapia against 4-4 (3) Emill Gonzalez - 4 rounds @ super middleweight. Gonzalez has never been stopped; Tapia's one loss was by TKO.
Round 1 Tapia lays some hurtful right hands on Gonzalez while nimbly dancing around him. Gonzalez is getting some chopping rights through as Tapia just doesn't bother blocking or stepping out of the way, but for every one he lands Tapia is getting off a quick left hook/right hand combo. Tapia is sharper and faster, and neither has much defense. This might not last long. 10-9 Tapia
Round 2 Gonzalez is throwing hard but soggy-looking shots with both hands. Nothing straight. Tapia is being forced to brawl much more than he should with his obvious edge in talent. Tapia starts to jab on the outside, but really he's just sticking the left out and holding it in Gonzalez's face instead of snapping it. Tapia lands some upper-hooks on the inside before dancing back out. Gonzalez is flailing away trying to land (and actually gets a solid pair anchored to Tapia's nose). 20-18 Tapia
Round 5 (of 6, it seems) Ahh, bull****. Apparently this is previously recorded. Telefutura is jumping through rounds, just giving us partial coverage now due to scheduling constraints. Whatever, I'm not keeping score then. Still keeping my attention glued to it, as it's sloppy fun. :thumbsup
Tapia won by decision. I'm now catching up on Vidal vs. Santos, and it's surprisingly good. If you have it saved on your DVR, watch it. Resist the urge to just skip ahead to the Perez knockout. :yep
