Results + Scorecards | Zuffa Boxing 04

In the fourth, Glanton gamely kept walking forward and looking to hurt Opetaia to the body, but Opetaia set his sights and cracked him with two clean right hooks in quick succession.

It showed that Opetaia was starting to warm to his task, and in Round 5, he willingly met Glanton in the center of the ring and traded big shots with the American as the Australian took the fight into Glanton’s comfort zone and outstruck him at close quarters.

Referee Allen Huggins opted to penalize Glanton for holding in Round 6 as Opetaia’s pressure fighting continued to wear on Glanton, who simply had no answer to the Australian, whose accuracy and power were starting to mount up. Then things went from bad to worse for the Atlanta native two rounds later when he was docked another point for a low blow.

That second point deduction appeared to light a fire under Glanton, who came barreling forward trying to land heavy shots. But Opetaia’s smart footwork and accurate counters ensured he maintained the upper hand heading into the closing stages of the fight.

Both men wasted no time as they started trading big punches from the opening bell, with Salas loading up and connecting with some very heavy shots, while Saracho found a home for his counters in an action-packed first three minutes.

Saracho turned Salas’s aggression against him mid-way through Round 2 as he landed a big right hand that connected with the top of his opponent’s head and briefly stunned “Magic Man”. That success encouraged Saracho to step in and force Salas onto the back foot, as the 24-year-old southpaw started to hit his stride.

Both men were in full flow by the third, and both Salas and Saracho connected with eye-catching single shots at different points in the round but the back-and-forth action ensured neither man was able to build any sustained momentum.

That all changed in the fourth, when Salas hurt Saracho with a huge straight shot that forced his man to back up and retreat for the first time in the fight. It served as huge encouragement to the Mexico City native, who continued to pour on the pressure through Rounds 5, 6 and 7, with the latter seeing him badly hurt Saracho with nasty body shots, mixed in with heavy shots upstairs.

Rubio was enjoying his best spell in the fight, and two strong rounds in the sixth and seventh suggested that the momentum was swinging towards the Whittier, California native as the fight went into the final round.

Then, in the third, Palma turned up the power and connected with a big left hook that stunned Rubio. Palma then closed in and landed a huge leaping left hook to send Rubio to the canvas for the first time in his career. Rubio unwisely tried to fire back, and eventually paid the price again as a short right from Palma sent him to the deck again.

Despite being dropped twice in the fourth, Rubio came out for the fifth and immediately got straight into the trenches with Palma once again, even beckoning him on. Even a peach of a right hook that connected flush on Rubio’s jaw didn’t deter the 29-year-old as he kept pushing forward. But, despite his forward pressure, Palma’s more accurate, impactful shots continued to catch the eye.

By the start of Round 5, Rubio appeared to have fully recovered, while Palma appeared a little gassed after trying, and failing, to get the stoppage in the previous round. It opened up the opportunity for Rubio to come forward and land multi-punch combinations. But, despite his success in the round, there was another warning, as Palma landed another big shot just before the bell.

The opening four rounds were rinse and repeat for Panin as his controlled pressure saw him outwork and outland Bunch, who just didn’t seem to be able to let his shots go.

After looking comfortable through four rounds, Panin loaded up and let his fists fly in the fifth as he connected on Bunch with a succession of big shots that threatened to overwhelm his opponent. Then, in the final minute of the round, “Superbad” connected with a huge right hand that sent Bunch’s mouthpiece flying across the ring.

It put Panin comfortably in charge at the half-way point of the matchup, and with Bunch starting to look demoralised in his corner between rounds, the Las Vegas-based fighter pushed forward looking to break his opponent’s spirit.

The action started at a steady pace, with Juarez establishing his jab and keeping Anderson on the back foot for the majority of the first round, then looking to put combinations together in the second. Anderson, meanwhile seemed a little more tentative early, but started to open up towards the end of Round 2.

Round 3 continued in a similar vein, but following two rounds saw both men turn up the intensity, with Juarez landing some heavy shots on Anderson through the fourth and most of the fifth. But Anderson then landed his best shots of the fight in the final minute of Round 5 as he connected with some big punches to force Juarez against the ropes.

Anderson pushed forward in Round 6 and 7 and landed some decent combinations, but overall, it was Juarez who had the edge as he boxed more effectively behind his jab, with occasional shots downstairs to the body.

Perez settled into his Zuffa Boxing debut as he worked behind a solid southpaw jab, while Ramos looked to step in and connect with heavy shots from close range.

After a well-contested opening round, Perez unloaded a piston-like stright left hand that sent Ramos to the canvas in the opening seconds of Round 2. Ramos beat the count and recovered quickly. A big right hand from Ramos found its mark as he gave Perez a moment’s pause against the ropes, and the Dallas native kept the pressure on, despite his early setback.

After a strong recovery in the second round – and following an encouraging pep-talk from his corner to let his hands go – Ramos came out in the third and returned the favor with a big right hand that caught a retreating Perez flush as he registered a big knockdown of his own.

Ramos pushed the pace through the penultimate round as he backed up Perez with relentless pressure to leave Perez’s coach Robert Garcia telling his man that he needed to win the round to stand a chance of a draw. Ramos’s coach Rich Barrientes, meanwhile, continued his positive approach as he encouraged Ramos to put everything into his final round to secure victory. And with the final seconds counting down, both men swung for the fences in a bid to land a fight-altering knockdown.

Serrano took the center of the ring and didn’t relinquish it as he looked to dictate terms through the opening round. The pair fought on level terms for much of the round, but by the end of the opening three minutes, an accidental clash of heads meant Ochoa returned to his corner bleeding profusely from a nasty cut above his hairline.

Ochoa looked to move in and land flashy combinations in Round 2, but Serrano – the older man at 21 years of age – covered up well and didn’t seem too flustered by the teenager’s flurries. But that changed at the start of the third, when Ochoa started the round with some heavy hooks that found their mark and forced Serrano to take a backward step. Serrano later answered with a couple of solid hooks to the body, but Ochoa took them well and kept moving forward.

After four tightly-contested rounds, both men upped the intensity in the fifth, with Serrano visibly planting his feet and loading up with his shots as he unloaded with venom to the body before moving upstairs to the head. Ochoa tried to respond in kind and landed a couple of solid shots, but the 18-year-old’s work wasn’t quite as accurate overall. A big right hand from Serrano put the exclamation point on the end of a strong penultimate round for the California native.

It set things up perfectly for the final round, with both corners insisting to their fighters that the fight was still there for the taking. And, in the final three minutes, it was Ochoa who produced the more eye-catching work as he switched to southpaw and landed some decent shots as Serrano looked to adapt and counter.

But in the second round, Alvarado turned up the intensity as he repeatedly ripped Rosado to the body. The teenage Mexican was noticeably the bigger, stronger man, and he put all those advantages into a huge left hook that sent Rosado down to the canvas.

For a moment, it wasn’t clear whether Rosado would beat the count, but he eventually did, and the Santo Domingo native tried to fight fire with fire, as he stood and traded shots with Alvarado. But the Mexican’s heavier, more accurate shots found their mark again as the second round came to a close.

Rosado showed plenty of grit and determination as he stepped into the pocket and traded with Alvarado through rounds three, four and five, but despite offering plenty of volume, he wasn’t able to pierce Alvarado’s guard too many times, as Alvarado’s constant targeting of the body to open up shots to the head saw him consistently outscore his opponent through the middle rounds.