By Matthew Dower
At the Sosua Bay Grand Casino at Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, middleweight contender Giovanni Lorenzo (28-2, 20 KOs) stopped Wilmer Gonzalez (17-9-1, 11 KOs) in two rounds. Lorenzo tries to get his career back on track after losing a split decision in his last ring appearance against Sebastian Sylvester in September of last year. Gonzalez drops his third in his last four.
Junior welterweight Felix Diaz (5-0, 3 KOs), a 2008 Olympic gold medal winner, won a six round decision over Orlando Membreno (11-13-1). Membreno got dropped in the first round. The second fight for Diaz this year.