By Cliff Rold
Arizona - 25-year old super middleweight Shane Mosley Jr. (7-1, 5 KO), 162 ¾, of Pomona, California, provided chief support to his father with a six-round majority decision win over 32-year old Roberto Young (5-8-2, 4 KO), 160 ½, of Phoenix, Arizona. The referee was Tony Zaino.
Young seemed content to lay in wait for counter opportunities for most of the first three rounds. Late in the third, he started to find the holes he needed and had Mosley scrambling to fire back. Young came out in the fourth to engage, landing some wide shots but without any sustained attack.
The fight stayed competitive but Mosley, more aggressive and active, managed to hold his early lead. In the sixth, Mosley hurt Young with a right but couldn’t put him down and settled for the decision at 59-55, 58-56, and an even 57-57.
In the televised opener, 35-year old light heavyweight Dimar Ortiz (11-0-2, 8 KO), 178 ¾, of Venice, California, put a steady beating on a willing but outmatched 40-year old Ricardo Campillo (9-10-1, 7 KO), 178 ¼, of Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico, for a sixth round stoppage victory. The referee was Wes Melton.
Ortiz battered Campillo but could never quite get him off his feet. The doctor’s took a look at a cut on the eye of Campillo before the fourth but deemed him fit to continue. Ortiz caught him on the ropes in the sixth and was landing freely when Melton called the fight at :25 of the sixth.
It was Campillo’s third consecutive stoppage loss.
The card was televised in the US on CBS Sports Network as part of its “Sports Spectacular” series, promoted by Go Box.
Cliff Rold is the Managing Editor of BoxingScene and a member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and the Boxing Writers Association of America. He can be reached at roldboxing@hotmail.com