LAS VEGAS — They had been like two tiny rock’em, sock’em robots. WBC flyweight titlist Julio Cesar Martinez and Angelino Cordova couldn’t get out of one another’s means on the Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora undercard Saturday night time on Premier Boxing Champions’ inaugural Amazon Prime occasion from the T-Cell Area.
Martinez (21-3, 15 knockouts) made his seventh profitable title protection towards Cordova, although barely, profitable by majority choice.
Decide Tim Cheatham had it 113-113, which was overruled by Max De Luca and David Hudson, who every had it 114-112 for Martinez.
Martinez was bleeding from a lower over his left eye, Cordova’s face was misshapen together with his left cheek rising one other cheek.
It appeared neither fighter threw a jab.
Martinez knocked down Cordova within the first 10 seconds of the third spherical with a straight left jab to the chin. Martinez did it once more with a hammer jab with 2:14 left within the spherical.
One way or the other, Cordova got here out of it standing on stiff legs.
With two minutes left within the fifth, Martinez appeared to have Cordova in hassle. Once more, Cordova discovered a technique to survive. Each fighters couldn’t assist however one another had been although their punches had been wild and from each conceivable angle.
With 1:07 left within the sixth, Martinez battered Cordova as soon as extra with a large left that linked.
Cordova had Martinez towards the ropes within the first 30 seconds of the eighth spherical, however Martinez fought his means off. It was energy punch after energy punch. Cordova appeared on shaky legs, although he appeared to be efficient. He even had some enjoyable, faking a bolo punch and doing a foul impersonation of the Ali shuffle.
The 2 closed very similar to they opened, whaling away at one another wildly. As the ultimate bell sounded, Cordova raised his arms pondering he had received.
Joseph Santoliquito is an award-winning sportswriter who has been working for Ring Journal/RingTV.com since October 1997 and is the president of the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America.Observe @JSantoliquito
