Prelim Results From San Juan, Puerto Rico
Super Flyweight Yadriel Caban Gerena blew out Jeremis Hernandez-Torres with two crushing knockdowns, ending matters at 1:46 of the first round. Caban’s record improves to 3-0, 3 KOs, while Jeremis Hernandez-Torres falls to 2-3.
Dominican Euri Cedeño was hoping to put the middleweight division on notice as he took on Etoundi Michel William (Brazilian by way of Ivory Coast). Cedeño dropped William twice in the first round but William would prove to be a tough out. By the third, Cedeño’s pace slowed ever so slightly after having gone all out in the second as well. William actually landed two eye-catching right hands that snapped Cedeño’s head back twice in the fourth. Just as Cedeño rocked William near the end of the fifth, William came back with another long right to snap Cedeño’s head back over the top rope again.
Cedeño opted to set up his shots with some boxing instead of brute force in the second half of the bout. Regardless, William did what seemed impossible in the first three minutes of this fight and made it the full ten rounds. The scores were as follows: 100-88 x 3 for Cedeño, who moves to 14-0-1, 12 KOs. The tough-as-nails William loses his third straight to fall to 16-3, 12 KOs.
Opening the show in San Juan, former welterweight title challenger Giovani Santillan outworked an awkward gatekeeper in Courtney Pennington at super welterweight over ten rounds. Scores were 98-92, 97-93 and 96-94 for Santillan, who improves to 34-1, 18 KOs. Pennington falls to 17-11-3, 10 KOs.
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