Light Heavyweight Alfonso "El Tigre" Lopez pounded Rubin
Williams for ten continuous rounds on June 17th at the
Humble Civic Center!
Mendez
Manages Ruiz!
Junior featherweight Johanna "Bam Bam" Mendez of Houston
(7-0-1, 2 KO's) faced all she could handle to remain undefeated
against Christina Ruiz of San Antonio (5-3, 3 KO's)
in a six-round bout.
See
round one!
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Mendez was one of the nation's top amateur female boxers and has continued to stand out as a pro, notching wins over then 11-2 Kasha Chamblin and 5-2 Lisa Lamb in 2009.
Mendez most recently TKO'd Geboria Mayfield in July of '09 in Houston. Ruiz had won her last three fights, also most recently stopping Mayfield in Fort Worth in April of this year.
See
round three.
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The
bout was fought at 122 lbs., heavier than Mendez's
natural weight, due to the difficulty of her finding
opponents, according to her father JT Mendez.
Ruiz was clearly the larger and stronger fighter,
stalking Mendez throughout much of the match. But
Mendez showed outstanding lateral movement, as well
as the ability to score combinations while darting
in and out of her opponent's range.
See
round five!
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Two
judges scored the bout 59-55 for Mendez, while the
third called it a draw. HoustonBoxingScene.com also saw
the match as even.
Mendez
with Promoter Cameron Park, Trainer Phil Delgado and
Father JT Mendez
Castaneda
Rips Roville!
Lightweight "Iron" Aliceo
Castaneda of Galveston (10-1, 5 KO's)
dominated Oscar Roville of Texarkana, Arkansas (1-4-1, 1 KO)
in a four-round bout.
Castaneda was coming off a unanimous six-round decision over previously unbeaten Jesus Rodarte in Dallas on May 6th.
See round
one!
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Roville
proved to be a strong athlete but was too
slow and inexperienced for the quick and
accurate combinations of Castaneda.
See round
three!
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Two judges
scored the bout 40-36, while the third had
it 39-37, all for Castaneda, giving him the
unanimous decision!
Alvarado Ambushes
Ruiz!
In her pro debut,
junior bantamweight Ashley Alvarado of Houston
looked impressive in taking out Maria Ruiz of
Houston.
See round one!
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Ruiz was game to come
out for the second round, but Alvarado continued to
hammer "La Bandida" with solid shots.
See round two!
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The stoppage came at
:52 of the second round.
Alvarado is 1-0 while
Ruiz falls to 0-1!
Patten/Allen!
Mark
Patten of Cork, Ireland squared off against Derrell
Allen of Tyler, Texas in a three round exhibition
bout!
See round one below!
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"El Tigre" Devours "Mr. Hollywood"
Alfonso "El Tigre" Lopez of Cut 'n Shoot, Texas
dominated Rubin "Mr. Hollywood" Williams of Detroit
over ten rounds to top off a Rock Solid Promotions card that had a little
bit of everything for Houston-area fight fans.
Lopez came in undefeated at 19-0 with 15 KO's, and he was coming off a unanimous six-round decision over the 25-7 Gabriel Holguin in Corpus Christi on April 3rd.
"El Tigre" continued to increase his level of competition in
taking on the 29-9-1 Williams, who had notched 16
KO's, but the 34-year-old Williams has clearly seen better days,
having lost his last seven fights in a row prior to
facing Lopez.
See round two!
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Williams was most recently stopped on cuts in four rounds by Les Sherrington in Australia on April 29th, in challenging for the World Boxing Foundation Super Middleweight title.
Williams also has knockout losses to Andre Ward and Houston's Chris Henry in 2008.
But while he proved durable and dangerous to the
end, Williams never seemed to offer a serious effort
to win the bout against Lopez, opting for survival
mode instead.
See round four.
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Lopez continued
to keep Williams against the ropes and score with
repeated combinations to the body and head.
Williams
countered with the occasional combination but never
threatened Lopez, who won every round on all three
judges' scorecards.
See round seven.
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Despite the pounding,
Williams never went down in the match, and showed in
round ten that he remained a dangerous opponent to
the end.
Round ten!
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A
Castaneda
Nails Nash!
Light
middleweight Fernando Castaneda of
Aguascalientes, Mexico (7-5, 4 KO's)
punished Deon Nash of Lutcher, Louisiana (5-13, 1 KO) in a scheduled six-round bout.
See round one below!
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Castaneda was coming off a four-round split decision loss to Taronze Washington in Fort Worth on May 8th, while Nash had lost his last eleven consecutive bouts.
But to Nash's credit, he had gone the distance in ten of those eleven bouts, and had most recently gone six-rounds in losing to former world contender J.C. Candelo in Texas City in March.
But
Castaneda's sustained body attack took a
serious toll on Nash, who continued to break
down and absorb more and more bombs as the
bout wore on.
The time of
the stoppage was 2:14 of the fifth round!
Agha
Jolts Johnson!
Heavyweight
Darlington "Cheek" Agha of Houston
(3-0, 3 KO's)
quickly dispatched "Gentleman" James
Johnson of Dallas (23-41-3, 13 KO's) in the first round!
