Damn, thats an upset.
From fightnews.com
Pitalua KOs Santa Cruz!
Lightweight Antonio Pitalua scored a sixth round knockout over Armando Santa Cruz to claim the vacant WBC interim lightweight title at the Arena Coliseo in Monterrey, Mexico. Pitalua floored Santa Cruz in round four and finished him at 2:50 of round six. He will now face unbeaten Edwin Valero by the end of the year. The interim title was on the line because WBC champion Manny Pacquiao is committed to fight Oscar de la Hoya on December 6 and unable to defend the belt.
wow, surprising. but then again Santa Cruz had a pretty crappy chin.
I wonder what the scorecards were up to that point? maybe it was like the David Diaz fight, where he was winning almost every round until he got caught.
Valero seems to have a good chin. Mosquera didn't really hurt him all that much when he knocked him down, and aside from that there has been nothing to knock against Valero. Valero will KO Pitalua.
This will be a good test for Valero.We will finally see if this guy is the real deal.
somehow pacman fans seem to connect EVERYTHING to manny, i bet they're gonna find a way to connect him to the mayorga vs mosley match next week! :D
This fight actually merited an interim cause manny is never going to defend this title again. he has already said he wants dlh then hatton.
this is a big upset, santa cruz was fighting an opponent that basically fought 'stay busy' for 3 years, he should obviously have won. santz cruz blew his big chance!
anyway i predicted pitalua to win and put some money on it since he was -350
pitalua is a tough fighter has like 13 kos in a row and hasnt lost in 7 years
i saw the fight
santacruz won the first 3 rounds but he was getting too close to pitalua, but pitalua didnt throw enough to hurt him still he managed to get him bleeding from the nose and eyebrown
anyway at the 4th round a brutal brutal uppercut connected santacruz a tko blow
somehow santacruz got up and managed to get up and win the round 5
but at the round 6th a brutal right hook connected santacruz it made him spit his mouthpiece, the ref didnt stop the fight and pitalua kept banging santacruz head without a mouthpiece, then santacruz finally dropped face first and dint beat the count
thanks for the recap, i havent seen any on the internet except this one :biggthump
Every sonic post is about marquez.....Now this will be a lil of a step up for Valero i can't wait to see Valero fight a bigger name tough
Is there a video we can check anywhere?
Sta. Cruz beat Casamayor badly.. Casamayor even got knock down in the canvas in the first round and Sta. Cruz kick his ass up to round 12.. Majority of the people didn't score a single round for Casamayor.. Now, he got knockout by a Pitulua?
It only shows that Marquez fought not old but already washed up and should be done in Boxing.
did you even see that "knockdown"
but casa last fight b4 the marquez fight was an impressive stoppage against a strong young fighter . . . so your logic is is flawed. all the santa cruz fight showed was that he needs motivation to really fight well.
May I say that Pitalua doesn't deserve a title shot...he has fought bums his entire career. Not to mention the fact that I don't think Manny would ever want to fight this guy, there is no money there.
What does it mean they're fighting for the "INTERIM TITLE" coz Manny is fighting Oscar on December? These corrupt Alphabelt orgs are too confusing!
They're thinking that Manny won't be defending that title anytime soon, if ever. And they're not wrong about that.
I thought HBO was having it on HBO latino in their new spanish series or something that GBP created.
It's not the same HBO Latino they used to show fights on. It's only available in Latin America. Maybe you could get it with a super satellite, but not on any of the regular providers.
I thought HBO was having it on HBO latino in their new spanish series or something that GBP created.
It wasn't on HBO Latino... I was looking for it today.
What does it mean they're fighting for the "INTERIM TITLE" coz Manny is fighting Oscar on December? These corrupt Alphabelt orgs are too confusing!
It means they got some cash for saying it was some quasi title match...
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