By James Blears
Adrian "El Confessor" Hernandez re-enforced his number one contender status in the WBC's light flyweight division with an impressive three round TKO over the skilled but light hitting, and outgunned Eric Ramirez.
Hernendez landed the heavier blows throughout. In round three, a glancing right to the top of the head shook Ramirez, and then a left hook to the pit of the stomach felled him. The referee had seen enough and stopped it at 28 seconds of the third.
The warning signs of Hernandez's power were evident from the first bell. At the end of rounds one and two, Ramirez's manager the legendary KO artist Carlos Zarate, warned and extolled him to put up a greater defense and use more head movement, but he didn't have the power to cause any major threat.
Former cruiserweight champion Giacobbe Fragomeni finally wore down a game but utterly outclassed Mexican journeyman Eduardo Ayala with a flurry of blows to the face in the sixth round. Ayala was deducted a point for hitting on the break in round two, but the scores were always going to be irrelevant.
Ayala started by hitting and moving, but Fragomeni crowded him and connected with switching left and right jabs, backing it up for harder hooks. Fragomeni tended to ignore Ayala's slapping body punches and fought back effectively after Ayala launched a furious assault at the beginning of the fifth, which momentarily backed the Italian on to the ropes. When Fragomeni landed telling blows to the head, Ayala dropped his hands and invited him to repeat the dose which he did. After another telling left-right combination to the head in the sixth, referee Lupe Garcia had seen enough and stopped the carvery at 1.47.
Strawweight Jose Alfredo "Diablito" Zuniga KO'd Osvaldo "El Chucky" Razon with poleaxing right hook to the jaw in the third of their scheduled ten round bout. Razon had brought one of the menacing dolls on his back when he came to the ring, but it didn't save him from the laser-guided right hook which dropped him in the third. He was counted out at forty seconds and had to be helped back to the corner on unsteady legs.
