Bantamweight Jonas Sultan (18-5, 11 KOs) won a ten round unanimous decision over previously unbeaten bantamweight Carlos Caraballo (14-1, 14 KOs) in the Zepeda-Vargas co-feature on Saturday night at MSG’s Hulu Theater in New York City. Sultan dropped Caraballo in round two. Sultan dropped Caraballo again in round three, but Caraballo got a knockdown when Sultan’s glove touched the canvas. Sultan dropped Caraballo again in rounds six and nine. Despite four knockdowns, scores were only 94-93 3x for Sultan.
Sultan stated, “This is boxing. This is war. And I came to win tonight. Caraballo is a tough man, but I wanted this one.”
Junior featherweight Carlos Jackson (18-1, 11 KOs) won a controversial eight round split decision against former world champion Jonathan Guzman (24-2, 23 KOs). Despite an injured hand Guzman seemingly outboxed Jackson. Scores were 78-74, 77-75 Jackson, 77-75 Guzman.
Welterweight prospect Jahi Tucker (5-0, 3 KOs) stopped Jorge Rodrigo Sosa (3-3, 3 KOs) in round two. Time was 2:18. Ref waved it off probably a bit early.
Junior welterweight Kasir “Mazzi” Goldston (4-0, 1 KO) overcame the dirty tactics of Marc Misiura (2-2, 1 KO) to win a four round unanimous decision 40-35 3x. Misiura deducted a point for an intentional headbutt.
An entertaining bout, but the scoring of the judges on this was abhorrent. Sultan absolutely didn’t win this fight on the margin equivalent of one knockdown. That’s ridiculous.
The scorecards were mostly consistent. All three judges agreed on 8 of the 10 rounds, the exceptions being rounds 3 and 10. In round 3 when both fighters were ruled down, Kevin Morgan and Tony Paolillo scored round 3 (10-9) for Sultan, while Waleska Roldan scored round 3 (10-9) for Caraballo. Morgan and Paolillo scored all rounds for Caraballo when he did not go down (rds 1, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10); Waleska Roldan’s scorecard agreed on those six rounds except round 10 was scored for Sultan. Normally if one fighter knocks their opponent down 4 times, they also dominate the other rounds as well or end up with a KO. This fight was unusual in the sense that it was mostly competitive for the entire fight.
Guzman won that fight. Boxed his socks off. Oh well. Everyone will forget and the commission will proceed with business as usual. That fight needs to be looked into, criminally.
Was it the night of the robberies or what ?! Probably full moon i have to check the calendar !
I stopped watching before this fight, because the Judgingwas so bad. Jackson and Linger both got bad deals in the fights before that. Horrible. I thought you had to go to Texas to get screwed, nah right there in New York.
The match makers must not have done their research on Sultan. He’s better than his record looks.
The judges TRIED to rob Jonas Sultan but failed. 4 knockdowns, and he only won by 1 point. What kind of bull shit is this?