Joseph Adorno: record, next fight and profile →
Minneapolis - Super lightweight contender Elvis Rodriguez (14-1-1,12 KOs) overcame a slow start to earn a hard-fought majority decision over the hard-hitting Joseph Adorno (17-2-2, 14 KOs) after 10 rounds.
Rodriguez, Adorno Fight Photos Gallery - Minneapolis - In a junior welterweight contest, Elvis Rodirguez (14-1-1, 12 KOs) dropped and decisioned Joseph Adorno (17-2-2, 14 KOs) over ten rounds. (photos by Esther Lin)
Elvis Rodriguez demonstrated Saturday night what he meant when he said he’d show Joseph Adorno that the junior welterweight division is different.
Elvis Rodriguez commended Joseph Adorno for accepting what figures to be a difficult fight in Rodriguez’s weight class. Rodriguez is a southpaw who stands approximately four inches taller than Adorno, who admits he feels more comfortable competing in the lightweight division. The 27-year-old Rodriguez also has knocked out 80 percent of his 15 professional opponents entering their 10-round, 140-pound bout Saturday night at The Armory in Minneapolis.
Joseph Adorno has returned to Minneapolis to redeem himself. Almost 11 months have passed since the Dominican Republic’s Michel Rivera, then an unbeaten lightweight contender, defeated Adorno by unanimous decision in a high-stakes 10-rounder Showtime televised from The Armory. Adorno (17-1-2, 14 KOs) will encounter another Dominican, Elvis Rodriguez, at that same venue in the 10-round opener of a “Showtime Championship Boxing” tripleheader Saturday night.
James vs. Palmetta, Rodriguez vs. Adorno Weights Photos Gallery - Matías vs. Ponce will see top super lightweight contenders square off as popular knockout artist Subriel Matías meets undefeated Argentine Jeremías Ponce for the vacant IBF 140-pound World Championship on Saturday, February 25 live on SHOWTIME from The Armory in Minneapolis headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by Esther Lin)
Jeremias Ponce and Subriel Matias made weight Friday for the junior welterweight title fight the 140-pound contenders have awaited for quite some time. Argentina’s Ponce stepped on the Minnesota Office of Combative Sports’ scale at 139½ pounds for their fight Saturday night at The Armory in Minneapolis. Puerto Rico’s Matias officially weighed in at 139½ pounds.
Top super lightweight contenders will square off as popular knockout artist Subriel Matias meets undefeated Argentine Jeremias Ponce for the vacant IBF 140-pound World Championship to decide one of the kingpins of the red-hot super lightweight division on Saturday, February 25 live on Showtime from The Armory in Minneapolis headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event.
Elvis Rodriguez’s lengthy layoff has been scheduled to end February 25. BoxingScene.com has learned Rodriguez will oppose Joseph Adorno next month in a junior welterweight clash Showtime will televise from The Armory in Minneapolis. As BoxingScene.com previously reported, Showtime’s tripleheader that night also will feature hard-hitting Puerto Rican contender Subriel Matias (18-1, 18 KOs) against Argentina’s Jeremias Ponce (30-0, 20 KOs) in a 12-round fight for the vacant IBF junior welterweight title.
Joseph “Blessed Hands” Adorno, a former amateur standout with heavy hands was forced to rely on his guile and discipline to fend off a tenacious effort from Hugo Alberto Roldan in winning a 10-round unanimous decision in the super lightweight main event of ShoBox on Friday at Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino’s Grand Ballroom in Atlantic City.