Unbeaten lightweight Giovanni “El Cabron” Cabrera (21-0, 7 KOs) dominated Gabriel Flores Jr. (21-2, 7 KOs) over ten rounds. The Freddie Roach-trained Cabrera dropped Flores twice in round one, again in round five, en route to a ten round unanimous decision. Scores were 98-89 3x.
In a spirited clash between unbeaten middleweights, Javier “Milwaukee Made” Martinez (7-0, 2 KOs) won a six round unanimous decision over Pachino Hill (7-1-1, 6 KOs). Scores were 60-54, 59-55, 59-55.
Unbeaten heavyweight Guido “The Gladiator” Vianello (9-0-1, 9 KOs) scored a fourth round knockout against Rafael Rios (11-4, 8 KOs). A barrage of punches put Rios down for the count. Time was 2:59.
Unbeaten featherweight Haven “The Hitman” Brady Jr. (7-0, 4 KOs) outpointed Aaron Echeveste (6-8, 3 KOs) over six one-sided rounds. Scores were 60-53, 60-54, 60-54.
Unbeaten lightweight Abdullah Mason (3-0, 3 KOs) scored a first round TKO over super game Luis Fernandez (1-4-1, 0 KOs). Total beatdown. Time was 2:39.
Unbeaten 6’9 heavyweight Antonio “El Gigante” Mireles (4-0, 4 KOs) scored a second round KO over Dennys Reyes (3-3, 1 KO). Mireles dropped Reyes twice in round two to end it. Time was 2:19.
Unbeaten light heavyweight Dante Benjamin Jr. (3-0, 2 KOs) won by first round TKO against Corey Thompson (4-1, 3 KOs). Thompson down three times.
Unbeaten middleweight Antonio Woods (11-0, 9 KOs) scored a first round TKO over Darryl Jones (4-5-1, 2 KOs). Referee’s stoppage.
Heavyweight Colton Warner (5-1, 3 KOs) outpointed Jimmy Barnes (1-3, 1 KO) over four 40-36 3x.
Good scrap but absolutely no way Dogboe won and I was rooting for him. Professional boxing is about clean hard punching and Gonzalez did more of it.
I have never been high on Flores, Jr. He has been overhyped with a great backstory, but that sure didn’t help him in the ring. I couldn’t believe how open he was to the straight left hand. Cabrera had an open lane to the chin in the first few seconds and landed a solid left that dropped Flores. He was lucky to survive the round but took a lot of punishment for the rest of the fight.
I believe Flores and his father need to carefully evaluate if he should continue his career. He seems overmatched at lightweight and just didn’t have the strength to deal with Cabrera. He was wobbled often during the fight and just took too many solid shots on the way to the final bell. I don’t like to see a young man absorb punishment like that. He really should consider retiring from the ring.
They’ve just moved Flores super fast, now we’re having warranted conversation of whether or not he should even continue fighting. His last three fights have been super tough, two of them massive prolonged beatings (especially against Venado) and all in the last 11 months at the age of 21-22. I think he’ll continue, but he needs to take a long rest and, unfortunately, I don’t know if he can make 130 anymore, but I agree 135 might be too much for him, especially considering the problems he had with Lopez who is a featherweight.
Was anyone else bothered by the crew interviewing Flores first and giving him more air time than the guy who just whopped his ass? Then they interview Cabrera and spend time asking if he was impressed how tough Flores was? Then pretty much cut off cabrera mid sentence?
LOL! TR sucks. Flores sucks and their in house biased broadcast crew sucks. (Bradley is a shitty commentator but is the only one that isn’t completely biased for the house fighter. ‘Dre’ has lost credibility with me- it’s boring and obvious that theres a particular type of fighter that he favors in his commentary and Mick is good but a shill for TR)
Plus after Herring lost to Ortiz in the middle of the Ortiz interview Kriegel suddenly stops the interview and literally runs over to Herring
I feel like some social worker needs to step in and take Flores Jr. away from Flores Sr., he’s a danger to his son by letting him think he’s a good boxer. He’s just a sloppy, fragile gym fighter who can’t take the punishment of actual fights.