Cruz TKOs Guzman

Atlantic City, New Jersey – Last Saturday, the Puerto Rican born Ronald Cruz ( 12-0,9 KO’s ) became the first boxer to defeated by TKO, the veteran Manuel Guzman ( 7-10-2,3 KO’s ), who has gone the distance with the top prospects in the United States, including former Olympic and rising prospect, Saddam Ali.

“I started to put pressure and expected to win, but I thought I had to sacrifice more to win. I did not expect him to go away. He says his shoulder was hurt but he was already falling, her legs were weakening, he was receiving many good blows. What was coming would be more ugly and he knew it, because he has fought with a broken hand, with cuts under his eyes and him not fighting because a shoulder pain? I don’t think so” said Cruz, who stunned his opponent in the third round in a bout scheduled for eight rounds, at 145 pounds.

Cruz’s trainer Lemuel ‘Indian’ Rodriguez could not hide his excitement by saying “I am right now like a child, we have several plans in all our fights, if one is not working, we use another plan and the original plan was to attack the body and throw punches to Guzman’s shoulders and everything went to perfection. ” said the coach who grew up in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

“I hope I have made my people feel proud, I am a proud Puerto Rican who comes to the ring to prove that I’m a ‘boricua’ with heart. These days because Puerto Ricans boxers have been losing and I will show that there is one here and it will take take a long, long, time to defeated me”. said Cruz who was raised in the Barrio Cortés in Manatí and now lives in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

The Cruz vs Guzman fight was the Co Main Event of the Omar Sheika vs Garrte Wilson rematch, held at the Palladium Ballroom at Caesars, Atlantic City, New Jersey.