Super lightweight Jesus “Ricky” Perez (25-5, 18 KOs) scored a hard fought split decision over former world champion Joseph “JoJo” Diaz Jr. (33-5-1, 15 KOs) on Thursday night at the Commerce Casino & Hotel in Commerce, California. After a ten round slugfest, judges had it 95-94 for Diaz, 96-94 and a ridiculous 99-90 (Lou Moret) for Perez. Diaz was deducted a point in round five for shoving Perez through the ropes. JoJo has now lost four of his last five.
The scheduled co-feature between flyweights Ricardo “El Niño” Sandoval and Jayson Mama was scrapped when Mama tested positive for Hep-C.
Super welterweight prospect Eric Tudor (10-1, 6 KOs) bounced back from his first loss with an eight round unanimous decision over Luis Ramos (6-3-1, 6 KOs). Scores were 80-72 3x.
Unbeaten super bantamweight Jorge “El Niño Dorado” Chavez (10-0, 7 KOs) outscored Diuhl Olguin (16-35-7, 10 KOs) over six rounds. Chavez recovered from a first round knockdown to win 59-54, 58-55, 58-55.
Unbeaten lightweight Joshua Garcia (7-0, 4 KOs) scored a first round KO against Eric Lozada (1-1-1, 0 KOs). A flush right hand finished Lozada. Time was 1:45.
Pro debuting middleweight Sasha Tudor (0-0-1, 0 KOs) and Josias Gonzalez (2-2-1, 0 KOs) battled to a four round draw. Scores were 39-37 Gonzalez, 39-37 Tudor, 38-38.
Good fight by Josiah Gonzalez he upset Tudor debut
I feel proud when the announcer ask to the crowd for an applause for the fighters before go to the score cards
Good fight …..easy to see they are lack of quality boxing but willing to give everything in the ring
Thank you Ricky perez and congratulations for th3 victory I knew you were going to win
You believed he would win, not knew.
Put some money up next time you “know” somebody is gonna win.
It was easy to predict
Your words says you thought Diaz was going to win
Is ok we all accept and fail
Hmm… it looked like a close fight, yet going into the last round the live betting had Diaz at 12-1 outsider. Maybe someone knew about the scorecards in advance…?
Diaz-perez was a good fight. perez started strong and maintained the pressure. Diaz came on late with the cleaner punches. I had it 5 rounds to 5. but with the point deduction from diaz for the foul, it was perez by 95-94.
With the dumb dumb foul from Jojo, I had Perez up by that one point and it was definitely a close fight. I don’t know how on earth (or any other planet), you get 99-90. That is beyond me. Lou Moret is ~80. Maybe it’s getting difficult for him to keep track of what’s going on.
Lou Moret should try another sport, easier to handle, like Soccer for instance
He could be the VAR replay ref for soccer I guess??
I had it 96-93 Perez. Would have been 96-94 without the dumb foul. Both Diaz and Moret saw a different fight then everyone else. I say they feed Diaz to Scholfield and have Perez and Berchelt fight on the same card. I think poor Moret may have been struggling for awhile.
Yeah, Diaz was crazy thinking he only loss the round with the point deduction. I was also thinking that the loser would get Schofield, but the winner maybe Garcia if he loses to Haney. Oscar has 140’s now though with Ramirez and Barboza. HOPEFULLY Berchelt stays at 135.
Whether JoJo has simply run out of steam for the sport, or isn’t putting in enough hard work, or simply hasn’t got what it takes to make it to the top, I’m not sure. But I’m about sure he needs to go ahead and hang them up now.
Too much legal problems. Including sending a D-pick to a minor on Snapchat. Of course, he got a pass from you most critical Boxing fans.
A world class fighter shouldn’t need to stoop so low. With that said, he better hang them up.
I hated to miss this show, but I instead attended the show in San Jacinto on the Soboba Indian Reservation. It was a good show, which featured four Native Indians.
Were they full blooded Native “Indians”?
Yes, full-blooded Indians. The ring announcer even announced what tribe they were from.
The scoring was horrid. Jojo caused his own loss in all reality. The judges however, appear to be sending Diaz a message with those scores. Rematch.
I forgot to mention, Diaz looked a bit dry in this fight. When you look back at the last couple of fights, he appeared to be a little more hydrated/muscular. Maybe that had to do with his performance.
Jo Jo can go back to getting ,high he’s finished as a fighter! Maybe he can be a better father to his son than he’s been with his dad.