Ornelas Ready For More
Report & Photos By Roy & Marlene Marquez
Light heavyweight
Enrique Ornelas cracked Julius Fogle with a leaping
left–right that dropped Fogle and rendered him unwilling
to continue. Fogle rolled onto the seat of his shorts
and watched Referee Jerry Cantu count him out at 1:12 of
the fourth.
Ornelas v. Fogle
headlined a seven bout fight card waged before 1,765
fight fans at Club Nokia – LA Live.
In the first, Fogle
(15-4) snapped an effective jab that repeatedly pierced
the Ornelas guard. His speed continued to bother Ornelas
until late in the second when Ornelas trapped Fogle
against the ropes and fired hooks to the body.
Ornelas (30-6) closed
the distance in the third and landed both hands with
regularity. The assault continued into the fourth until
Ornelas dropped Fogle with the fight ending combination.
“I would love to fight
on Shane’s card”, said Ornelas following the fight.
Given the Shane Mosley v. Floyd Mayweather fight is in a
little more than a week it is apparent Ornelas is ready
for more.
A single left hook by
Roberto Reyes (1-0) put Azamat Umarzoda flat on his back
and down for the count. Umarzoda (0-1) never saw the
punch but felt it to the core. Referee Ray Corona waived
off the contest at 2:45 of the first round.
Los Angeles based
cruiserweight Deon Elam walked through Philadelphia’s
Andre Hemphill on route to a four round unanimous
decision victory. By the second Elam (11-1) landed
several chopping right hands against an increasingly
defensive Hemphill.
Hemphill (8-15-2)
increased his work rate in the third but was largely
ineffective. Elam landed a pretty three punch
combination in the fourth before knocking Hemphill down
with a right hand moments before the bell.
It was a curious contest
in that both fighters wore the same trunks and signed to
fight six rounds.
Undefeated bantamweight
Khabir Suleymanov white washed southpaw Benji Garcia
over six rounds to improve his record to 10 wins without
a loss. In the early rounds Garcia (14-14-1) matched
intensity with the ultra aggressive Suleymanov and had
the Russian backing up. Suleymanov responded well by
blunting Garcia’s rushes with well timed right hands. In
the third, Suleymanov snapped Garcia’s head with a four
punch combination along the ropes.
A Suleymanov right cross
dislodged Garcia’s mouthpiece in round four. Suleymanov
opened the sixth with three head-popping uppercuts.
Throughout the bout Suleymanov’s short, straight right
hands repeatedly beat Garcia’s looping overhand shots to
the punch.
Luis Martinez outworked
Juan Sandoval over four rounds to win a close contest by
majority decision. In the second, Martinez (2-3-1)
staggered Sandoval (1-2) with a left hook that sent him
half way across the ring.
The junior lightweights
traded blows in a furious fourth that ended with a
toe-to-toe exchange at the bell. The final scores
favored Martinez 40-36, 40-36, 38-38.
The heavy hands of
Hiromitsu Miura (2-0) wore down southpaw Nathan Bedwell
over four light heavyweight rounds to record a 40-36,
39-37, 39-37 unanimous decision victory.
Miura’s (2-0) steady
body attack slowed Bedwell and readied him for straight
right hands up top. Bedwell (0-2) fought gamely but
tired noticeable and lost form over the final two
rounds.
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