George Acosta no combatió. Victorias de Brewer, Sánchez y Manouilidis (Vídeo de la velada)
George Acosta did not fight. Victories for Brewer, Sánchez and Manouilidis (Full video of the evening)
Daniel Pi
@BastionBoxing
DoubleTree Hotel, Ontario, United States.
Due to the fact that his opponent, the Ecuadorian José Angulo, did not pass the medical controls satisfactorily, at the last minute the American super featherweight George Acosta 13(1KO)-1 was left without fighting in last night’s Thompson Boxing evening. In any case, this did not prevent Acosta from participating in the event in another way, since he offered some statements, explained that he is going to auction the trunks he was going to wear that night to help with the medical expenses of a sick friend, and asked his girlfriend to marry him.
For the rest, the card was reduced to three professional fights, the main event being the featherweight bout between the American prospect Sean Brewer 4(3KO)-0 and the Mexican Christian Rentería 9(8KO)-14(11), who was beaten in the first round.
Brewer chased his southpaw opponent around the ring looking for the moment to land a clean hand before an attempted attack by Renteria ended with the latter being rocked by a counter right. Right after, a straight hand to the body by Brewer put his opponent on the mat. With 40 seconds remaining in the round when Renteria got up, and with the boxer showing signs of pain, it only took Brewer a right hook down at short range to put his opponent back on the canvas. The boxer stood up again, but when the referee asked him to move towards him he bent for a moment, so the third man stopped the clash.
The co-main event also ended by stoppage. In it the American Leonardo “Bazooka” Sánchez 2(1KO)-0 defeated the Mexican debutant Francisco Duque 0(0KO)-1(1) in the third round of a lightweight clash between southpaws.
Despite Duque’s valiant efforts to answer, Sánchez’s straight lefts and right hooks were the most forceful punches, which allowed him to keep his opponent on the ropes until, still in the first round, he dropped him with repeated left hands part of a combination. The end of the round bought some time for Duque, who continued to fight back desperately in the second round, but he kept being punished by hard combinations of hooks.
Thus, finally in the third round the bout ended: a new combination of straight lefts and right hooks against the ropes made Duque touch the mat once and, after the restart, a right hook to the torso left him lying on the canvas and closed the duel.
The fight that opened the card was the one between the Greek Ioannis Manouilidis 3(0KO)-0 and the Mexican Mario Aguirre 3(2KO)-19(7)-1, a match for which the former was at the super lightweight limit and the latter at the welterweight limit. In any case, Manouilidis won by unanimous decision (triple 40-36).
With better technique and more order in his actions, initially Manouilidis took the center of the ring and chose calmly his straight right hands and left hooks. From the second round Aguirre tried to get away from the ropes and even to take the initiative, so he threw some combination of hooks, but Manouilidis used dodges and blocks that reduced the possible danger and counterattacked connecting combinations of hooks and uppercuts, body shots and straight right hands to earn the well-deserved victory.
Below, official video of the evening courtesy of Thompson Boxing’s YouTube channel: