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Draped successful the acquainted emblem of the Philippines, a prima was calved connected Saturday nighttime successful Las Vegas. It wasn’t Manny Pacquiao, though helium was successful the gathering to combat Yordenis Ugas successful the main event.
Instead, it was his protege, Mark Magsayo, who introduced himself to the satellite with an electrifying knockout implicit Julio Ceja.
Magsayo (23-0, 16 KOs) dropped Ceja successful the archetypal circular and looked similar helium mightiness beryllium successful for an aboriginal night. But Ceja battled backmost and rapidly took power of the fight.
He repeatedly wounded the Filipino imaginable with assemblage shots, and the pro-Pacquiao assemblage started to brace for what would person been a large upset.
But Magsayo, who trains with Pacquiao nether Freddie Roach astatine Wild Card gym successful Los Angeles, started to regain power arsenic the bout reached the aboriginal rounds.
In the 10th, helium landed a close manus that backed Ceja against the ropes. With the Mexican severely wobbled, Magsayo connected with a cleanable abbreviated close that knocked Ceja unconscious.
The assemblage reacted, and aft Magsayo stopped to onshore a backmost flip, helium celebrated with his corner.
“I got knocked down and was surprised, but I focused my caput connected what I wanted, a satellite title shot,” helium said. “It’s my imagination contiguous and present it’s coming true. Hopefully my adjacent combat is simply a satellite rubric shot.”
In the main paper opener, featherweight imaginable Carlos Castro overcame aboriginal adversity and knocked retired seasoned Oscar Escandon.
Castro (27-0, 12 KOs) was an 11-1 favourite but was severely rocked astatine the extremity of the archetypal round. He recovered, though, and took power of the combat with a stiff jab that often stopped the hard-charging Escandon successful his tracks.
Castro started to onshore powerfulness shots, severely hurting Escandon connected aggregate occasions arsenic the combat went on.
In the 10th and last round, Escandon went down and looked shaky erstwhile helium roseate to his feet. He tried to instrumentality a genu to bargain much time, but the referee stopped the combat astatine 1 minute, 8 seconds.
The co-feature didn’t precisely unrecorded up to the 2 preceding fights. Victor Ortiz and Robert Guerrero — some faded erstwhile satellite titlists — battled done 10 mostly uneventful rounds.
Guerrero took the victory, winning a unanimous determination with 3 identical scores of 96-94.
The 2 men came retired firing, but some seemed to tally retired of state quickly. It was a combat that surely could person gone either mode connected the scorecards, but it was Guerrero who scored the constrictive win.
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