Katsidis Stops Chavez in a Seven Round Brawl

By Mark Vester

On the undercard to Edwin Valero-Antonio Pitalua at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, Michael Katsidis (25-2, 21KOs) stopped Jesus Chavez (44-5, 30KOs) in seven rounds.

Chavez was outboxing Katsidis in the first, using his legs to throw punches and then move away. Katsidis came back in the second with hard punches to steal it. Chavez answered the call in the third by putting together punches and digging to the body. A clash of heads in the fourth was opened up a cut on the hairline of Chavez. The blood began to drip into Chavez's left eye and Katsidis jumped on him with punches.

In the fifth, Chavez began to land some big punches as the hometown crowd was going wild. The two of them began to brawl at close range along the ropes and took the battle to the middle of the ring. Katsidis began to pick up the pace in the sixth and seventh, throwing a lot of punches in bunches and pressing forward. Chavez looked hurt at the end of the seventh and did not come out for the eight round.

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