By Lyle Fitzsimmons

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Boxers 2, Plodders 0.

That was the final score Saturday night from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, where stickers-and-movers Andre Berto and Kermit Cintron out-slicked and out-skilled foes Juan Urango and Alfredo Angulo en route to a pair of unanimous decisions as the co-features on HBO’s “Boxing After Dark” card.

Following the script that has now earned him 25 straight wins, Berto took nine or 10 of 12 rounds on all cards in retaining his WBC welterweight title against a game but overmatched Urango, who’d taken a break from the 140-pound ranks – where he holds the IBF belt – for a shot at a second championship seven pounds north.

“I thought I did all right,” Berto said. “There were a few spots where I got a little lazy because it felt like it was coming too easy. But I stuck to the game plan and I thought I executed pretty well.”

According to ringside numbers, Berto connected with 243 punches to Urango’s 180, including a 69-9 edge in landed jabs and a similar number – 174 for Berto, 180 for Urango – in power punches landed.

“I think I showed a lot,” he said. “I’ve shown before that I can bang with the best and I think I proved here that sometimes I can box pretty well, too.”

Veering much further from the norm was the suddenly resourceful Cintron, who used consistently sharper and cleaner combinations and superior movement to foil the plodding Angulo, who’d entered as one of the cable network’s emerging favorites on the strength of an 11-fight KO streak and a rabid ethnic following.

Pun intended, his nickname is “Perro,” which is Spanish for dog.

“This is probably the best performance of my career,” said Cintron, who improved to 31-2-1 and won by decision for just the fourth time in his career. “The past is the past. I’m the future. Whatever my promoter puts out there for me, I’m ready. At 154 pounds or 147, I feel great at both weights and I feel I can be a world champion again.”

Ringside punch stats had Cintron out-throwing Angulo by a 1,094-957 margin and out-landing him, 316-277. He landed 149 of 678 jabs and 167 of 416 power shots.

“We had eight weeks of a great training camp,” Cintron said. “We ran and ran and ran. (Trainer) Ronnie (Shields) put me threw hell. I tell you what, I give a lot of credit to my team.”

The fight was the Puerto Rican-turned-Pennsylvanian’s second straight in the junior middleweight ranks, following an inauspicious February debut that ended in a desultory 12-round draw against then-interim WBC champion Sergio Martinez, who became a full-fledged title-holder when Vernon Forrest was stripped.

His lone career losses came against Antonio Margarito, the first in 2005 when he challenged for the WBO title, and the second in 2008 when the since-disgraced Mexican snatched away the IBF belt Cintron had won two years earlier against Mark Suarez and successfully defended with stoppages of Walter Dario Matthysse and Jesse Feliciano.

Still, he voices no immediate concerns with Margarito’s tactics against him.

“I leave all that alone,” Cintron said. “Only God knows if he did things against me that he wasn’t supposed to be doing, and the bottom line is that he’s getting punished now and I’m still out there doing my thing. (The losses) might have hurt my career a little bit, but I still have one right now.”

A career that suddenly seems chock full of options, too.

“Kermit Cintron has always been one of the most talented fighters in the world, but tonight is the night he put it all together,” promoter Lou DiBella said. “He boxed brilliantly against a never-say-die warrior.”

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Philadelphia’s Yusaf Mack won his fifth straight bout and continued a surge toward the top of the light heavyweight division with a sudden fourth-round TKO over recent world title challenger DeAndrey Abron.

Mack, who fought at Reading’s Lincoln Hotel on a Cintron undercard in 2001, improved to 28-2-2 when Abron’s corner threw in the towel at 1:46.

He is ranked sixth in the world by the WBA, WBC and IBF.

The fight had been competitive through three rounds with neither man landing any significantly damaging blows. Mack then landed a pair of rights early in the fourth and scored two knockdowns, prompting the surrender as Abron rose a second time.

Abron, who’s lost four straight overall and three in a row by stoppage, is now 15-5.

He dropped a 12-round decision to WBO 175-pound champion Zsolt Erdei in April 2008.

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Welterweight Jonathan Gonzalez scored the card’s first stoppage when he battered Floridian Laquel Fleming along the ropes violently enough to prompt a stoppage at 1:45 of the opening round.

Gonzalez, now 3-0 with three knockouts, represented Puerto Rico in the 2008 Olympics.

Fleming, who was stopped in one round for the second straight time, is 1-3-2.

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Ex-Venezuelan Olympian Wilmer Vazquez, a 6-foot-3 heavyweight now residing in Florida, ran his pro record to 9-0 with a majority six-round decision over Louisiana-based journeyman Andrew Greeley.

Beaten by eventual gold medalist Odlanier Solis in Athens, Vazquez won two scorecards by counts of 60-54 and 58-56 against Greeley, who has dropped 13 of his last 14 fights and is 6-27-2 since opening his career with eight straight wins.

The other scorecard was even, 57-57.

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In the evening’s opener, New York-based heavyweight Tor Hamer recorded his fifth consecutive stoppage with a second-round TKO of a seemingly unwilling Samuel Brown in a scheduled four-rounder.

Hamer, now 6-0, wore blue and white trunks with the words “Penn State” across the waistband, scored a knockdown in the final 10 seconds of round one and three more in the second.

Brown, who fought four times at Philadelphia’s Blue Horizon in 2006-07, dropped his third straight to fall to 4-6-2 overall.