Escalante wins by unanimous over Roman

By Sam Gregory: In the main event on the February 26th edition of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights from El Paso, Texas hometown favorite Antonio Escalante 22-2 with 14 KO’s fought Mickey Roman 28-6 with 20 KO’s in a scheduled 10 round bout in the featherweight division.

From the opening bell this was a very tough fought fight with both men throwing and landing hard shots with enough on their punches to end the fight at any time.

Going into the third round Roman kept pressure on Escalante who doubled up on his solid right hand that he was landing at will.

By the fourth round Escalante stepped up the pace of the fight. At the start of the fifth round both men came out swinging hard trying to end the fight early.

In the sixth and seventh rounds Escalante again stepped up the pace of the fight.

Escalante had Roman against the ropes in the eighth round but Roman kept pushing forward never letting up on applying pressure to Escalante.

By the tenth and final round it was obvious that Escalante was too fast and too talented for Roman.

After the tenth and final round the fight went to the judge’s scorecards: 97-92, and 96-93 twice for the winner by unanimous decision Antonio Escalante.

Escalante improved his record to 23-2 with 14 KO’s while Miguel “Mickey” Roman fell to 28-7 with 20 KO’s.

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