TVMax: Ricardo Antonio Núñez Pérez vs. Eduardo Pacheco & Daniel Matellón Ramos vs. Mario Andrade RBR

Round 1

Matellón is scoring with a stiff right jab off the hip every time Andrade comes sallying in behind the high left jab. Matellón also smacking Andrade with a quick right hook. Very obvious edge in both timing and power to Matellón. Andrade wobbled in the first ninety seconds, holding on, but still game & determined. Andrade taking home run swings up top with the 1-2 as Matellón ducks and counters with ramrod southpaw jabs on the breadbasket. Andrade darts in and out, body-feinting, and gets Matellón to put out a lazy jab, chopping past it with a counter right and grazing just before the bell.

10-9 Matellón

 

Nice chess match so far.

 

Is there anyone currently active with more professional draws than Mayonesas?

 

Round 2

Matellón now orthodox, sends Andrade into a corner with a series of power shots off the jab - hooks around the guard, uppercuts downstairs and straights down the pipe, brutal assault, finally making Andrade succumb via accumulation, slumping against the padded turnbuckle, and that is that!

KO2!!

 

Well, er, not a concern tonight..

 

Oh yeah, true. Six in the western hemisphere is a lot, though.

 

Matellón improves to 9-0-2 (5). Seems to have all the right tools, but they'll need to move him quickly if the plan is to get into contention; he's already 31 and that's old for a light flyweight, even if he did only debut in 2016 (meaning very little tread on his tires...unless he was a "perennial bridesmaid" amateur with hundreds of fights or something...)

 

Former world champ Jezreel "El Invisible" Corrales up next after the commercial break..

Kind of a star-studded card by domestic standards, really odd they wouldn't just shoehorn Chemito Moreno into this one instead of him being on a competing show elsewhere in the country..

 

A win and three losses by split decision, too.

 

Jezreel Corrales González vs. Onalvi Sierra, 8 rounds @ welterweight

 

note: this was originally scheduled to be a lightweight contest, but Corrales missed weight by 2½lbs...and Sierra missed it by 9½lbs!! (barely came in under the freaking welter limit, two divisions up..)