Prelim Results From San Juan

Chris Echevarria and Gabriel Bernardi thrilled the crowd in an action-packed six-round super bantamweight bout. From the first round on, the pattern of this fight was Echevarria throwing more punches while Bernardi countered with the harder, singular shots. In the fourth round, the referee deducted a point from Echavarria for losing his mouthpiece for the third time. Later in that same round, the mouthpiece fell out again and it was learned that Echevarria had both an upper and lower mouthpiece in and the lower one kept falling out, so he fought without it for the remainder. In the end, judges all agreed at 57-56 for Echevarria, who wins his 10th fight in a row, now 10-1, 4 KOs. Bernardi falls to 7-4, KOs.

Alexis Chaparro took on fellow undefeated Augusto Leal in a middleweight six rounder. Chaparro had his hands full as the Georgia-based Venezuelan did not come to lay down. Chaparro had knocked out all of his previous six opponents so it was interesting to see how he was going to deal with a foe that could give as good as he could take, as the rounds progressed. In the end Chaparro was able to measure his attack and have enough in the gas tank. The judges saw it as follows: 60-54 twice and 58-56 all for Chaparro, who moves to 7-0, 6 KOs. Leal loses his first at 3-1, 1 KO.

Puerto Rican buzz saw Elise Soto mowed down Dominican Liliana Martinez like a thresher going through a wheat field. It didn’t matter that these two ladies, as well as the rest of the female fighters on tonight’s card, we’re fighting 3-minute rounds. Martinez couldn’t stand up to the non-step barrage of Soto. Referee Luis Pabon rescued Martinez at 1:59 of the second round. Soto improves to 10-0, 9 KOs. She is managed by tonight’s headlining star. Amanda Serrano. Martinez falls to 25-24, 16 KOs.

In another Puerto Rican civil war, bantamweights Abner Figueroa and Edwin Rodriguez went at it over six hard-fought rounds. Rodriguez tried to apply his experience, which was more than three times that of Figueroa, but it wasn’t enough as the judges scored it 58-56 twice and 60-54, all for Figueroa, who moves to 8-0, 1 KO. The tough luck Rodriguez falls to 12-10-3, 5 KOs.

Fellow Puerto Rican super featherweights Yandiel Lozano and Johniel Cotto had the sparse, early crowd somewhat divided as each man did some decent work. Lozano stung his foe with the first punch he threw in the first round but couldn’t really capitalize on it for the remainder of the bout. The final scores read 58-56 twice and 60-54 all for Lozano, who improves to 3-0. 3-3, 1 KO.

Opening the huge Serrano-Tellez show in San Juan, Puerto Rico, were fellow bantamweight debutants Caleb Tirado and Justin Hill. The Olympian Tirado showed too much skill, speed and power for Hill to last. A left to the body followed up by a flurry of punches in the corner prompted referee Jose Rivera to step in and save Hill from further damage. The time was 1:59 of the second round. Tirado starts out at 1-0, 1 KO. Hill starts out at 0-1.

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