Penalosa Stops Gonzalez in 7th round!

35-year old knockout artist, Gery Penalosa (52-6-2, 35 KOs) came from behind tonight to stop WBO bantamweight champion Jhonny Gonzlaez (34-6, 29 KOs) with a crashing body shot in the 7th round tonight at the Arco Arena in Sacramento. Gonzalez, 25, had up to that point been easily beating Penalosa, hitting him with essentially any punch he threw. Penalosa, though, was able to connect with big punches at times, but they were few and far between. As the rounds went by, it looked hopeless for the old ring warrior Penalosa, was he was hopelessly behind by the start of the 7th round.

After taking six rounds of punishment from Gonzalez, looked as if he’d had enough going into the seventh round, as every punch he threw in the seventh round had knockout intentions on it. Gonzalez, however, always one to like a good scrape, tried to trade with Penalosa, and got hit by a perfectly thrown left body shot from Penalosa, sending Gonzalez to the canvas in extreme pain. He tried to get up but the body shot kept him from getting to his feet in time for the bout to continue. As it was, if he’d made it up, Penalosa looked fully prepared to finish the matter the second the action continued.