By Keith Idec
LAS VEGAS – Ryan Garcia put on a spectacular, swift show Friday night.
Garcia needed just 30 seconds to knock out Miguel Carrizoza in a fight ESPN2 televised from MGM Grand’s Marquee Ballroom. Garcia clipped Carrizoza with a right hand that sent Carrizoza to the canvas less than 20 seconds into the fight.
A stunned Carrizoza got up, but Garcia drilled him with a short left hand that floored Carrizoza again and forced referee Jay Nady to stop the scheduled 10-round fight just 30 seconds into it.
The 19-year-old Garcia (11-0, 10 KOs), who’s represented by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions, won a seventh straight bout by knockout. Mexico’s Carrizoza (10-2, 2 KOs) lost by knockout for the first time in his four-year pro career.
Garcia, of Victorville, California, won the vacant NABF 130-pound championship in a bout broadcast by ESPN2 as part of the “Golden Boy on ESPN” series.
Before Garcia’s victory, Philadelphia’s Damon Allen survived several troublesome stretches early and remained undefeated by beating Honduras’ Jayro Duran by unanimous decision in the first fight ESPN aired.
Allen (13-0-1, 5 KOs), another Golden Boy prospect, won their eight-rounder by the same score, 79-72, on all three scorecards. Duran dropped to 10-3 (9 KOs).
After getting hit entirely too much early in their fight, the taller, faster Allen’s hand speed and combination punching enabled him to take control in its second half.
Nady deducted a point from Allen in the second round for low blows. Nady warned Allen in the first round, before he deducted a point.
In the first fight on Friday’s card, super bantamweight contender Horacio Garcia stopped fellow Mexican Diuhl Olguin in the fourth round of a scheduled eight-round fight.
Garcia (33-3-1, 24 KOs) dropped Olguin (12-7-3, 9 KOs) with a right hand in the center of the ring early in the fourth round. Olguin got up, but Garcia wasted no time pouncing on him and viciously assaulted him near Garcia’s corner.
Referee Robert Byrd stopped the fight as Olguin went down a second time. The time of the stoppage was 44 seconds of the fourth round.
Garcia, 27, avenged an eight-round, unanimous-decision defeat to Olguin, 28, in his last fight, July 15 at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Jose “Chepo” and Eddy Reynoso, the father-and-son tandem that trains Canelo Alvarez, also work with Garcia.
Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.
