By Miguel Maravilla at ringside
NABF super featherweight champion Ryan “The Flash” Garcia (15-0, 13 KO) of Victorville, California scored a ten round unanimous decision over Puerto Rican former world title challenger Jayson “La Maravilla” Velez (26-5-1, 18 KOs) on Friday night at the Stub Hub Center headlining a special edition of Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN. All three judges scored the bout 99-91.
Garcia opened up connecting with his flash left hook as Velez took it and stood inside close cutting the distance. Boxing from a distance, Garcia connected Velez with some solid straight rights in the second as the Puerto Rican kept coming. Velez pressed in the third but Garcia connected with another solid right countering Velez on his way inside. Circling the ring and keeping his distance Garcia boxed in the fourth as Velez continued to go forward. Garcia connected Velez with a crunching body shot in the fifth that stopped the Puerto Rican’s momentum but he continued to fight on.
Velez lunged in with a right hand in the sixth but Garcia was able to counter solidly and follow up with combinations. The veteran Velez had a good seventh round, outworking, backing Garcia and staying in close quarters. In the eighth Velez continued to press as Garcia stuck the jab and kept his distance. Late in the fight in round nine, Garcia stick and moved with Velez going forward looking for the knockout. The tenth and final round saw Velez going for broke going forward punching away as Garcia stood in the pocket letting his hands go.
WBO #5, WBA #6, WBC #11 middleweight Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan (28-2, 20 KOs) stopped Berlin Abreu (14-2, 11 KOs) of Puerto Rico in three rounds.
Irishman O’Sullivan stalked in the opening round connecting against Abreu on the inside. Abreu let his hands go in round two backing up O’Sullivan momentarily, but afterwards O’Sullivan continued to go forward. In round three, O’Sullivan began chasing, landing big punches as Abreu was on the run fading away spitting out his mouthpiece, drawing boos and getting deducted a point. Abreu walked to his corner at the end of the round and could not continue. The referee stopped the fight at the end of the third.
Undefeated female flyweight Seniesa “Super Bad” Estrada (13-0, 3 KOs) of East L.A. stopped Amarilis Adorno (1-7) of Puerto Rico in three rounds of a scheduled six round bout. Estrada came out swinging from the opening bell as Adorno stood her ground. Attacking to the body Estrada slowed down Adorno’s momentum to finish the round. In round two, Estrada boxed behind the jab as Adorno’s nose was busted and she suffered a cut above her right eye. After an exchange in round three, the blood continued to trickle down into Adorno’s eye as the referee Zach Young stopped the fight at 38 seconds into round three.
Middleweight Marvin Cabrera (8-0, 6 KOs), who is trained by former world champion Daniel Ponce De Leon, scored a third round knockout over Wilfrido Buelvas (18-9, 12 KOs) of Colombia. The two southpaws Cabrera and Buelvas wasted no time as they traded from the start. A right hook by Cabrera in the second backed Buelvas to the ropes punishing him throughout the round. Cabrera continued his attack landing the right hook, keeping Buelvas holding and clinching as he went down forcing referee Jerry Cantu to reach a ten count at 1:11 of the third.
In the opening bout from the StubHub in Carson, California, Richard Acevedo (2-0, 2 KOs) of Garden City, Kansas disposed of Edward Aceves (0-4) in less than a minute, scoring a first round knockout. Acevedo bumrushed Aceves and after an accumulation of punches, the referee stopped the bout at 59 seconds of the first.