Juanmita Lopez De Jesus won a six-round unanimous decision over Conner Goade in the co-feature on Saturday’s Xander Zayas-Abass Baraou fight card at Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Giovani Santillan, who will make his junior middleweight debut Saturday, hopes to fight for a world title by year's end and will be an interested observer of Xander Zayas-Abass Baraou.
Cortes entered the night as the front-runner to meet the winner of Emanuel Navarrete-Charly Suarez. After the fight, he might instead be on the outside looking in.
PHOENIX – Flexing a 10-fight card to close the year for a frenzied fight audience, Top Rank revealed the depth of its stable and a glimpse at its future main-event fighters.
The busiest man in boxing is bringing five of his fighters to Saturday’s card at Phoenix's Footprint Center, ranging from undeniable prospects to a veteran contender to a recently beaten title finalist.
Welterweights Giovani Santillan and Frederick Lawson will square off in a 10-round fight on December 7 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, a bout that was added to the undercard of Emanuel Navarrete’s junior lightweight title defense against Oscar Valdez.
Brian Norman Jr. secured the interim title with a knockout victory over Giovani Santillan in Santillan’s hometown of San Diego. When Terence Crawford then vacated the full title, he was established as a champion in one of the most glamorous divisions in the world.
Brian Norman Jr. considered what he was up against: Fighting in the hostile hometown of come-forward, unbeaten fighter Giovani Santillan with nothing less than a welterweight world title on the line.
Brian Norman Jr. caused a shock with his 10th-round knockout of hometown hero Giovani Santillan.
Fighting in front of his home crowd, Santillan had early success bullying his way inside, but Norman was the busier fighter, landing 52 more power punches. A Norman uppercut at the end of the eighth round caused Santillan to bleed profusely from the nose. Norman knocked Santillan down in the tenth round, and a final uppercut ended the fight.