Murodjon Kakharovich Akhmadaliev vs. José Luis Velásquez Cárdenas RBR (+ Andrade vs. Quigley)

Round 1

Martínez is stepping in and hooking, but Arroyo is countering him with perfectly timed jabs and chopping rights. Martínez goes down off a left hook in an exchange!!! Wait no, the ref is ruling it a slip? Bogus call - and he seems to change his mind on the fly and decide to pretend that he did think it was a knockdown (pressured by the boos of the crowd) and give Martínez a count. They battle cautiously for the next minute and then ARROYO goes down hard off a left hook while backing away somewhat off-balance, just before the bell!

10-9 Arroyo (both scored knockdowns, so the custom is to give it to whoever you think won most of the round, 10-9. Yes, that is how you score that...look it up, if you don't trust my word, as the guy that has been doing this for over a decade and scored thousands of fights )

 

I guess the keyword there was IF El Rey is half as good as he's believed to be.

If you're going life and death with Arroyo (whom I maintain is good but not a world-beater; sort of Lamont Peterson level), you're not in fact a p4p-destined blue-chipper.