Eduardo Hernandez: record, next fight and profile →
Junior lightweight Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez took some time to ramp up to top speed Saturday in Aguascalientes, Mexico, but his work rate ultimately brought Daniel Lugo to a full stop.
Promoter Paco Damian has a knack for finding hidden gems. He’s optimistic that his latest protege can be polished into the diamond of his roster
Eduardo ‘Rocky’ Hernandez makes his return to the ring against Daniel Lugo at Palenque de la Féria National de San Marcos in Aguascalientes, Mexico on Saturday May 11.
By Keith Idec - O’Shaquie Foster knew what he had to do during the championship rounds October 28 in Cancun. Open scoring afforded Foster knowledge that the WBC super featherweight champion otherwise wouldn’t have had during his first title defense against Mexican challenger Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez. Judge Nicolas Hidalgo had Foster down by the rather ridiculous score of 100-90, a shutout for Hernandez, after the 10th round and judge Ed Pearson had Hernandez ahead by a slimmer margin, 97-93.
Another year is in the books and it was a doozy both in and out of the ring. Fans said farewell to Showtime and hello to Amazon Prime. Tank-Davis-Ryan Garca lit up the box office, Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue lit up the month of July with twin career defining performances, Tyson Fury got knocked on his ass by an MMA fighter making his pro debut, and week after week quality fights dotted the landscape for almost all of twelve months.
Boxing fans began to take notice of Joe Cordina’s power after his vicious second-round knockout of Kenichi Ogawa and his knockdown of Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov in back-to-back bouts before he encountered Edward Vazquez on Saturday night.
One of the more entertaining fights of the year took place on October 28th when O’Shaquie Foster (21-2) stopped Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez (34-2) in the 12th round of their WBC super featherweight title fight. Foster was trailing on the scorecards when he pulled off the stoppage.
This was the win that O’Shaquie Foster needed to prove that he’s the real deal. Chief among those he had to send that message—himself. The red-hot WBC junior lightweight titlist escaped a dangerous road assignment with his reign still intact after a come-
Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat never gets old. According to Showtime’s Steve Farhood on Twitter Monday, what O’Shaquie Foster did to post his first defense of the WBC 130-pound title was a little more special than that. According to Farhood, “There have been thousands of world title fights, but on Saturday night, O'Shaquie Foster became only the 14th fighter in a title fight to trail on points going into the last round and score a stoppage to win.”
The industry has frequently failed him but O’Shaquie Foster finally found a way to use the system to his advantage. A ringing endorsement for open scoring came in the visiting WBC junior lightweight titlist’s come-from-behind, 12th