Sosa Stops Porpramook in Four Rounds To Retain Title
By James Blears
In a scintillating performance, Edgar Sosa retained his WBC Light Flyweight title in Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico with a fourth round TKO of a battling, but utterly outgunned Pornsawan Porpramook of Thailand.
Edgar boxed beautifully, piercing his opponent's defense, varying his shots and then backing up counter punches with offense. He hurt his opponent with crunching rib shots, wide right hooks and pinpoint upper cuts which repeatedly pierced Porpramook's guard, which was by no means leaky.
The challenger constantly tried to stalk Edgar and got through with some sharp left right combinations from time to time. But Edgar's punches carried considerably more weight, sting plus pep and he made every one of them count.
He backed up Porpramook with a flurry of punches to the head as early as the end of the second round, and then racheted up the pressure in the third. The challenger defiantly fought back, momentarily catching Edgar to the cheek with a sweeping right hook. But he was being drummed hard with more and more plus ever more rapid combinations.
Edgar evidently decided the fourth was going to be the last for Porpramook, who'd failed twice to win the strawweight title. One division up, he was out of his league. He resembled a reed being blown away by a hurricane.
Irrestible Edgar trapped him on the ropes and unleashed a barriage of punches to the head and body, which increased in momentum. During the twenty second thunderstorm, with flashes of lightning, he rocked Porpramook, who tried with all his might to fight back, but try as he might he was getting tagged, pounded and slammed from pillar to post.
Referee Hector Afu who'd given the challenger every opportunity due to his never say die attitude and courage, had no choice but to save him, calling a halt before a massacre set in. He stopped it at 2.32 of round four with Porpramook teetering on unsteady legs, on thin ice, and the audience in the packed stadium erupted with a wall of cheers.
On the undercard;
Reyes Sanchez overwhelmed Rusbel Montoya to retain his Continental Lightweight title.
Reyes, who seemed to be imitating the Pink Panther with that color of trunks and shocking hair to match, used his great height and octupus like reach to dig in punishing body punches and drive hard long well timed rights upstairs.
Reyes went into overdrive towards the end of round three, decking Rusbel with fifteen seconds from the bell with another savage body snatching attack. He relentlessly followed up in round four and Referee Guadalupe Garcia stepped in to save a wilting Rusbel from another wilting rib baisting after one minute and thirty five seconds.
Former featherweight world chanmpion Guty Espadas won the vacant Latin American version of the title with a lethargic performance against a rugged but untutored Juan Carlos Martinez.
Guty started brightly enough, but as the rounds wore on he seemed to wear out and got caught with some roundhouse punches that he should have easily ducked.
Outclassed, Juan Carlos kept coming and had a big round eight, shaking Guty with a huge left hook and a looping right.
Guty was able to pull himself together and rally for the tenth and final round. But some elegant, accurate straight lefts and rights found their mark, but lacked pep.