Bantamweight contender Abner Mares used a barrage of punches to bury Felipe Almanza at 2:23 of the fifth and remain on course for a May 22nd title shot against IBF belt holder Yohnny Perez. Hawaiian Garden’s Abner Mares and Santa Ana’s Ronny Rios headlined Fight Night Club at Club Nokia, LA Live. The popular fight series features California’s finest young pugilists amid one of LA’s hottest clubs.

For two rounds Mares (20-0) chased Almanza from post to post but could not trap the veteran from Colombia. In the third Almanza (19-16-3) slowed long enough to land several illegal punches to Mares’ hip. Slowing proved his undoing when Mares fired a few hooks and Almanza dropped in his tracks. Back on his bicycle, Almanza survived the fourth but could not make it out of the fifth.

Mares trapped Almanza in his corner and fired a series of uppercuts. Almanza wilted under the pressure and failed to beat the count.
 

Lightweight prospect Ronny Rios found the range for his right hand in the third but finished off journeyman Andres Ledesma with a double left hook at 1:45 of the fifth round. Rios (10-0) routinely landed a stiff left jab over the first two rounds but was short with most of his right hands.

In the third Rios caught up to the fleet footed Ledesma (15-17-1) and pounded the Colombian with right hands. By the fourth Ledesma was content to survive. Running to his left Ledesma fought only when trapped against the ropes. A Rios right nearly floored Ledesma at the start of the fifth but the ropes kept the fighter on his feet. Rios walked Ledesma across the ring and then fired the lethal combination.
 

Floridian Derrick Wilson and Texan Adam Ochoa scrapped for four rounds to a majority decision draw. After a slow first, Ochoa (2-1-1) ramped up in the second and forced Wilson to fight. Wilson responded in the third by tattooing Ochoa with left-right combination mid way through the round.

Wilson (5-1-2) timed Ochoa’s charges in the fourth and landed a quick counter left. The score cards tallied 38-38, 38-38 and 39-37 for Wilson. Pound4Pound scored the bout 39-37 for Wilson.
 

Anatoliy Dudchenko hurt fellow cruiserweight Harley Kilfian with the first right hand he landed. Dudchenko knocked out Kilfian with the very next punch. After recovering from the first right, Kilfian (8-5) walked into a short right that put him down for the count. Referee Raul Caiz counted to ten and at 1:08 of the first the fight was over. Dudchenko, from Cherson, Ukraine, has eight wins and two losses to his record.
 

Fight veteran Danny Z was no match for Flint, Michigan’s Dion Savage. Savage dropped Danny Z (8-18-4) twice in the first before securing the stoppage at 2:53 of the opening round. Referee Wayne Hedgepeth spared Danny Z further punishment by waiving off the light heavyweight bout.

Savage rapped Danny Z with rights to the body and uppercuts through the guard. With the victory Savage remains undefeated in eight professional bouts.
 

Gerald Fisher was overrun by David Aleman at 54 seconds of the first in a battle of debutants. Aleman dropped Fisher moments into the fight and never let off the pedal. Referee Wayne Hedgepeth stopped the contest shortly thereafter.
 

In the final contest of the evening, Aaron Martinez (12-1-1) defeated Pablo Montes De Oca (9-19-2) by scores of 60-54, 59-55 & 59-55.

Martinez was the aggressor throughout the junior middleweight six-rounder landing the cleaner, more effective blows.