By Allan Fox: #14 WBC junior middleweight fringe contender Erickson Lubin (14-0, 10 KOs) kept his unbeaten record intact by beating 24-year-old Mexican fighter Jose De Jesus Macias (18-6-2, 9 KOs0 by a 10 round unanimous decision on Sunday night on Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce TV from the Seminole Casino in Immokalee, Florida.
The 20-year-old Lubin worked hard trying to get a knockout, but he still found himself getting extended by the tough but limited Macias. The final judges’ scores were 99-90, 100-89 and 100-89. The scores were accurate and reflected how one-sided the fight was. Lubin put Macias on the canvas in the 5th round.
Other than that one round, Lubin struggled to put his punches together to hurt Macias. His punching power was top rate, but he lacked the hand speed, combination punching and the footwork to get rid of a guy that he should have been able to KO if he had the right tools. The fact that Lubin couldn’t throw his punches in speedy combination form allowed Macias to take his single shots and fire back his own punches.
Luckily for Lubin, he lacked the punching power to hurt him. If this had been a powerful junior middleweight that Lubin was facing like Jermall Charlo, he would have been in trouble. Macias was pooled from the welterweight division for this fight rather than from the 154lb division. It’s unclear what Lubin’s manager Al Haymon was doing in selecting a welterweight for him to fight. The fight would have made sense if Lubin was fighting in the 147lb division, which is where he should be fighting, but it looks bad that he’s fighting guys from a division below him rather than guys in the junior middleweight division.
Lubin needs a lot of work before he even thinks about taking on the best fighters in the junior middleweight division, because Macias was able to nail him with shots all night long. Lubin’s defense was not there in this fight. It didn’t really have to be there because he was fighting a weak punching welterweight. He’s going to need defense when he eventually starts fighting good junior middleweights rather than 2nd tier welterweights like Macias.
“He was a very awkward fighter with a herky -jerky style. He took a lot of blows and a lot of good blows. In the end I was able to come out with the victory,” Lubin said. “He was tougher than I thought. It was a little different than most of my fights but it’s good experience. I’m happy to get 10 rounds in. I just want to keep moving on from here and moving forward. I want to move up the ladder.”
I’d like to see Lubin move back down to the welterweight division to see if he can use his size and punching power to dominate the weaker guys. I think he could do well in that division right away. He doesn’t need a lot of work to excel at 147 because he would have the size and power to be a Keith Thurman type fighter. But at 154, Lubin would be out-sized by guys like Charlo brothers, Erislandy Lara and Demetrius Andrade.
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In other action on the card, welterweight Joseph Elegele (15-2, 11 KOs) defeated Alex De Jesus (21-2, 13 KOs) by a 6th round knockout. Elegele knocked De Jesus down in the third and twice in the 6th round. The fight was halted at 0:56 of the sixth.
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Lightweight Dennis Galarza (12-1, 8 KOs) defeated Samuel Amaoka (21-7, 15 KOs) by a lopsided 8 round unanimous decision. The final judges’ scores were 80-72, 80-72 and 80-72.
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Light heavyweight Dyah Davis (23-4-1, 10 KOs) defeated journeyman Edgar Perez (6-18, 3 KOs) by a 2nd round knockout.
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Undefeated welterweight David Grayton (14-0, 10 KOs) beat Daniel Souza Santos (14-10, 11 KOs) by a 2nd round stoppage.
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