The Mexican Juan Francisco ‘Gallo’ Estrada gave a dissertation on counterattacks to defeat the Nicaraguan by majority decision this Saturday Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez and win at Super flyweight title of the World Boxing Council.
With two cards in favor of 116-112 and 115-113 and one 114-114, Estrada dominated five of the six rounds of the opening half and had a good comeback in the last six minutes to add his wins 44, 28 by knockout with three losses.
At the Gila River Arena, in Glendale, Arizona, the fight began at a slow pace. Estrada, with good use of the ‘jab’ proposed in the first two rounds against a sleepy rival; had a head, though of no consequence.
In the third the war cry rang out. After two minutes there was a strong exchange; “Chocolatito” tried to block the way, but found the smart “Gallo”, who avoided getting close to the ropes and landed as many punches as possible.
Estrada, with great speed in his legs and hands, kept the Nicaraguan at bay, taking more than his fair share of hits and moving on to the bottom of the scorecards.
González’s best round in the first half of the trial was the sixthwhere he showed his usual waist speed, made the strongest effects and warned that the best for him was yet to come.
Again in the seventh round the Central American proposed the lawsuit and hit the best blows. He came out to propose in the eighth and ninth, but he found a “Gallo” with good response punches.
González narrows down the differences further; in the tenth he struck the most powerful effects and leveled the suit, but the Mexican saved energy and was better in the last two roundswhere he damaged the jab to round off the victory and hand Nicaragua its fourth loss, before 51 wins, 41 on the fast track.
“I always go from less to more, but today I had Chocolatito in front of me, which is very difficult; I got ahead with my great physical preparation,” said Estrada.
Earlier, the Mexican Julio Cesar “Rey” Martinez retained the World Boxing Council flyweight belt, defeating Spaniard Samuel Carmona by majority decision.
Two judges’ cards favored “Rey” 117-111 and 116-112, while the other had a 114-114 tie.
Source: La Verdad
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