By Miguel Maravilla and Rocky Morales at ringside
Unbeaten super lightweight Ryan “Blue Chip” Martin (22-0, 12 KOs) kept his perfect record intact with a dominating victory over one time Amir Khan conqueror and current gatekeeper, Breidis Prescott (31-13, 22 KOs). Martin pressed the action and landed swift and crisp combinations throughout the bout. In the fourth round, Prescott went down from a legitimate body shot, doing an Academy Award worthy flop job to sell it to the referee as a low blow. After Prescott was allowed a couple minutes to recover, action resumed and it didn’t take long for Martin to drop Prescott again, this time with an actual low blow. With replays showing on the big screen for the referee to see, Martin was deducted a point for the low blow. Round five action saw Martin drop Prescott with a right cross but Prescott would get up to fight on for the duration of the eight round bout with not much further damage. By scores of 79-71, 79-73 and 79-71, Martin wins a unanimous decision.
Unbeaten super lightweight Ruslan Madiyev (12-0, 5 KOs) was a unanimous decision winner over previously undefeated Jesus Perez (21-1, 16 KOs) in a 10 round bout. Madiyev landed the cleaner and harder punches to defeat the hard-charging but technically limited Perez. It was a big step up in class for Perez but too big a step to compete with Madiyev, who hails from Kazakhstan, is a stablemate of GGG, and is also trained by Abel Sanchez. Scores for the bout were 97-93, 99-91 and 97-93, all in favor of Madiyev.
Welterweight Brian Ceballo (2-0, 1 KO) outfoxed and outboxed tough but limited Nam Phan (3-6-1) to win a four round unanimous decision. Phan did his best to make a brawl of it but Brooklyn, New York native, Ceballo, clearly beat local club fighter Phan to win by scores of 40-36 on all three judges’ scorecards.
Super flyweight Jesse Rodriguez (6-0, 4 KOs) of San Antonio, Texas scored a third round knockout over Armando Vasquez (25-22-1, 7 KOs) of Mexicali opened things up at the Stub Hub Center. A straight left by Rodriguez did it as Vasquez was down referee Jerry Cantu reached a ten count at 2:18 of the third.