Calderon defeats Mayol, Martinez stops Viloria, Cermeño decisions Mijares

By Boxing News - 09/13/2009 - Comments

calderon3535357By Dave Lahr: For the second time in the past four months, a fight between undefeated World Boxing Organization light flyweight champion Ivan Calderon (33-0-1, 6 KOs) and his number #1 contender Rodel Mayol (25-4-1, 19 KO’s) has ended by a technical decision due to a head clash.

This time the bout ended in the 7th round – instead of the 6th like last time in June 2009 – with Calderon, 34, once again cut from a head clash at the Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Calderon was ahead at the time of the stoppage on two of the judge’s scorecards, 68-65 and 68-65, while on the third judges’ scorecard, Mayol was ruled to be ahead by the scores of 68-65.

Like last time, the taller 5’4″ took the fight to the shorter 5’0″ Calderon, and just as before, Calderon was able to take advantage of Mayol’s offensive aggression by hitting him with a lot of counter shots to the head and body. Last time, I thought that Mayol was ahead at the time the fight ended in the 6th round, but this time, I thought that Calderon had won the vast majority of the rounds with his clever counter punching and deserved to get the win.

What I didn’t like about this fight was that Calderon kept diving in with his head first like a Billy goat when he would attempt to clinch or land punches on the inside. Calderon didn’t use to fight this way, but since moving up against taller fighters like Mayol and Hugo Fidel Cazares in the past couple of years, Calderon has turned into a small Billy goat with his use of the head.

It makes it frustrating to watch him fight nowadays because Calderon’s last three fights have all been stopped due to cuts from head clashes. Calderon is always the one badly cut, but then again he’s the one that is coming in head first like a little goat. I predicted that the rematch between Mayol and Calderon would end on a head clash and it looks as if I was correct.

Making his first defense of his title, undefeated WBO super featherweight champion Roman Martinez (22-0-1, 13 KOs) took out featherweight challenger Feider Viloria (22-4-1, 15 KOs) in a 9th round knockout. How the 26-year-old Viloria ended up a challenger for Martinez is beyond me. Viloria came into the fight having lost three out of his last five bouts and isn’t ranked in the top 15 in the super featherweight division.

Martinez worked the over-matched Viloria over with shots to the body and head in this one-sided fight. In the 9th round, Martinez finally ended the one-sided affair by opening up with a flurry of punches that sent Viloria down on the canvas where he was counted out by referee Roberto Ramirez at 2:59 of the 9th round.

Hopefully, Martinez, 26, opts to fight someone in the top 15 in his next title defense. Right now, I’d be happy with a body 15 opponent rather than another fighter coming into the fight from a lower weight division with three losses out of his last five fights. Martinez can do better than this.

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Cermeño defeats Mijares for the second time

Former World Boxing Council super flyweight champion Cristian Mijares (36-6-2, 15 KOs) finds himself now having to face some tough career decisions in where to go now after losing his third consecutive fight and second in a row to WBA interim bantamweight champion Nehomar Cermeño (18-0, 10 KOs) on Saturday night in a 12-round unanimous decision loss at the Saturday night at the Arena Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The final judges’ scores were 117-111, 116-112 and 116-112.

Unlike the last fight between Mijares and Cermeño in which Mijares appeared to do more than enough to win the fight by most accounts, Cermeño dominated last night’s fight with the 27-year-old Mijares. With this latest defeat, Mijares may need to consider moving back down a weight class to the super flyweight division because he’s had rotten luck against Cermeño and Vic Darchinyan in his last three fights.

However, it doesn’t appear to look any easier for the light-hitting Mijares at super flyweight because Darchinyan currently holds down three of the titles and big power puncher 19-year-old Marvin Sonsona has the other title. Mijares would be in a difficult situation against either Darchinyan or Sonsona, so he may just stick it out at bantamweight and try to make the best of a bad situation.



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