Alexei Collado: record, next fight and profile →
Ruben Villa advanced another step toward a featherweight world title shot Friday night. The elusive, skillful southpaw expertly out-boxed rugged Cuban veteran Alexei Collado in their 10-round, 126-pound fight in Shreveport, Louisiana. Each judge – Pat Dayton (99-91), Todd Singletary (98-92) and Keith Thibadeaux (98-92) – scored the bout by huge margins for the unbeaten, 22-year-old Villa, of Salinas, California.
Ruben Villa believes another impressive victory Friday night will help lead him toward the world title shot he hopes to earn by the end of this year. The undefeated featherweight will oppose hard-hitting Cuban contender Alexei Collado in the main event of Showtime’s “ShoBox: The New Generation” tripleheader. The Villa-Collado clash will headline a show from Hirsch Coliseum in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Villa, Collado Weights Photos Gallery - Undefeated featherweight prospect Ruben Villa and hard-hitting KO artist Alexei Collado both made weight a day before their ShoBox: The New Generation main event on Friday, January 31 live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT) from George’s Pond at Hirsch Coliseum in Shreveport, La.
Undefeated featherweight and world-ranked Ruben Villa (17-0, 5 KOs) is winding down his training for his 10-round showdown with Cuban knockout artist Alexei Collado (26-2, 23 KOs), this Friday night at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport, Louisiana. The bout will headline a three-fight telecast on ShoBox: The New Generation and live on SHOWTIME (10 PM ET/PT).
Undefeated featherweight prospect Ruben Villa will make his fourth ShoBox: The New Generation appearance in just over a year as the former two-time Junior Olympic National Champion takes on hard-hitting Alexei Collado in a 10-round main event of a three-fight telecast on Friday, January 31 live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT) from Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport, La.
Bantamweight contender Melvin Lopez knocked out Lucas Rafael Baez in the opening round last Friday night at the Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort in Miami, Florida. With the victory, Lopez improves to 21-0, 12 knockouts. Lopez weighed 120.2 pounds at the previous day’s weigh-in after Baez weighed in at 125.8 pounds.
In a low contact engagement that brought out the boo birds in spots, 33-year old Jr. lightweight Edner Cherry (35-7-2, 19 KO), 131 ¾, of Wauchula, Florida, won a debatable and oddly wide unanimous ten-round decision over 28-year old Lydell Rhodes (23-2-1, 11 KO), 133, of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the main event Tuesday night at the Sands Bethlehem Events Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The referee was Gary Rosato.
Cherry vs. Rhodes Photos of Weighin - BETHLEHEM, PA. - Former title challenger Edner Cherry (34-7-2, 19 KOs) and and quick-fisted contender Lydell Rhodes (23-1-1, 11 KOs) will compete in the 10-round lightweight main event of Premier Boxing Champions TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS on FS1 and BOXEO DE CAMPEONES on Tuesday, June 28 from Sands Bethlehem Events Center in Bethlehem, Pa.
Cuban super featherweight Alexei Collado (18-1, 16 KOs) continues his training schedule in Deerfield Beach in Florida, even when he doesn't have an assurance that Roberto Marroquin (24-3-1, 17 KOs) will accept a fight with him on November 21 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "I keep training and not lowering the rate. I want to get in great physical condition for Marroquin. Last time, I was advised three weeks prior to fighting Robert. We accepted fight, but at the last minute they decided not to take the fight," Collado said.
MONROEVILLE, Pa. – Rod Salka put on a boxing clinic for Alexei Collado in Friday’s ShoBox: The New Generation main event. And then he stated his case for a world title shot. Salka was the more intelligent and effective fighter from the opening bell, pounding the body and utilizing his superior movement in an impressive 10-round unanimous decision victory (96-94, 96-93, 96-93) over the previously undefeated Collado at the Monroeville Convention Center in Monroeville, Pa., just down the road from his hometown of Bunola, Pa.