Viloria Stops Solis, Donaire Destroys Martinez – Boxing Results
April 18th, 2009
By Manuel Perez: I’m frankly speechless after former WBC light flyweight champion Brian Viloria (25-2, 15 KOs) pulled off a huge upset by stopping International Boxing Federation (IBF) light flyweight champion Ulises Soils (28-2-2, 20 KOs) in the 11th round tonight at the Araneta Coliseum, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
The bout was then stopped by referee Bruce McTavish at 2:56 of the round. Both fighter traded big shots from the beginning, but Viloria was able to land the harder shots and ended up quickly cutting Solis up over both eyes.
Even worse for Solis was that he lost points in the 3rd and 5th for landing low blows. Solis had his moments as well in the fight, hurting Viloria with a right hand in the 8th. However, he was unable to finish him off. However, it was Viloria who controlled most of the fight with his harder shots.
After knocking Solis out in the 11th, Ulises would stay down for a considerable amount of time trying to recover. Earlier in the 11th, Solis had been hurt by two huge shots to the head. Solis was still not quite right when he was leveled by a tremendous right hand from Viloria that dropped him to the canvas.
The win was a huge upset, as Viloria, ranked only at number #9 in the IBF, hadn’t fought any top fighters in two years since losing to Edgar Sosa in April 2007. During the last two years, Viloria looked slow and lethargic in the ring, hardly the type of fighter that could pull off an upset like this.
Viloria had held the WBC light flyweight title for a short period of time between 2005 and 2006, eventually losing it to Omar Nino Romero in 2006.
In other action on the card, IBF flyweight champion Nonito Donaire (21-1, 14 KOs) easily defended his title by stopping previously unbeaten challenger Raul Martinez (24-1, 14 KOs) in the 4th round of a hopelessly one-sided bout. Donaire, 26, led all the way, knocking Martinez down four times in the fight before the bout was finally stopped in the 4th by referee Pete Podgorski at 2:42 of the round following yet another knockdown by Donaire. Martinez was down twice in the 1st, another time in the 2nd and a final time in the 4th to end the slaughter.
Tags: Donaire vs. Martinez, Donaire-Martinez, Viloria vs. Solis, Viloria-Solis ,Brian Viloria, Nonita Donaire, Raul Martinez, Ulises Soils11 Responses to “Viloria Stops Solis, Donaire Destroys Martinez – Boxing Results”
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ibig sabihin ni howitzer wag ka daw mag english Rex Giacomo, mali daw grammar. hahahahahaha
congrats brian and nonito!
Next for Donaire would be another Mexican Champ Fernando Montiel possibly on June 27, I just hope that the Mexican wouldn’t make another alibis to avoid this fight. anyway if in case he will I just post the most famous quote from the Movie Forrest Gump, “RUN MONTIEL RUN”!!!
Hey German howitzer if yo know Manuel Perez and his previous comments on filipino fighters specially Manny Pacquiao you may know what I mean to say. Which I guess you will not know because your just a newbie on this site, try to visit this site more often so that you can may the IDEA O.K.STUPID!!!
Nice article both were excellent fights but viloria def looked great in this fight and you could see there was only going to be one winner.
Kudos to Manuel Perez for being objective on this article. Seems like you are assigned to cover on Filipino Boxers.. Thank God both Viloria and Donaire won their fight
So Perez is speechless? Can he also be unable to write? Please? Perhaps if you really analyze the matches rather than being a fanboy, you may not be so surprised when good fighters win their fights. I am Mexican-American. I would prefer that fighters who represent my heritage win too, but I understand that there are other cultures who produce great fighters and I am not going to blind myself to the qualities of other fighters just because they aren’t Mexican. Two very good fighters beat two good fighters today. That’s it. It isn’t one culture’s victory over another it is two fighters beating two other fighters. Perhaps if Perez evaluated the fighters on their strengths and weaknesses rather than being a racial cheerleader, then his articles might improve and discussions wouldn’t descend into jingoism.
Hey Giacomo, what exactly were u trying to say? I couldn’t decipher your broken English.
congrats to donaire and villoria
it’s the victory of the filipinos..!
Wins for the Filipinos. MIsmatch for Donaire, But a very good fight between Solis And Villoria. Solis is very tough, hometown crowd was a very big plus for Villoria. Congrats to Donaire and Villoria, also to Solis who put up a very good fight.
HAHAHAHA MANUEL PEREZ another of your countryman was been victimize by a Filipino…pity on you men…try to look for another excuse ok. it will only proves that your a jerk.