At the Blackberry Auditorium in Mexico City, Antonio “Tono” Moran stopped Guadalupe “Bronco” Rosales in six rounds to capture the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) lightweight Latin title.
Boxeo Telemundo Deportes’ commentators René Giraldo and Edgar López called the action, which saw Moran (22-2, 15 KOs) drop Rosales (34-13, 18 KOs) twice before the contest was waved off in the sixth round.
Moran returned to the ring after beating Richard “El Diamante” Zamora in March for the WBC Super Lightweight Latin title. Last year, he won his first two bouts including the World Boxing Council (WBC) Latin Lightweight title when he beat Juan Pablo “Lagarto” Sánchez.
He later lost a very controversial decision against the former world champion Emanuel “Pollo” López on his last bout of 2016. Zamora debuted as a professional boxer in 2012 winning his first 16 fights until Luis “Cotto” Vidales beat him in 2014.
Rosales comes in to replace Wilberth Lopez who was originally confirmed to fight Morán. Coming in, Rosales had won three of his last four bouts including his most recent upset win against Emmanuel “Pinkey” Colón who was undefeated for 15 straight fights.
During his career, he won the WBC Latin Featherweight title and the Super Featherweight titles for Mexico, the WBC Latin, WBC Mundo Hispano and the FECARBOX (Central American & Caribbean Boxing Federation.) Rosales also competed against renowned rivals including Juan Carlos Salgado, Edgar “Chananon” Puerta, Nery “La Pantera” Saguillán, Abdiel “El Mortero” Ramírez and most recently Robert “El Massa” Ortiz.
The last Boxeo Telemundo show of the Summer Season will be staged on Friday, July 28 live from the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, FL when David “Severo” Carmona of Mexico takes on José “Chiquiro” Martínez of Puerto Rico for the North American Boxing Organization (NABO) Super Flyweight Title.
