Broner crushes Escobedo; Thurman stops Lora

By Boxing News - 07/21/2012 - Comments

By Jim Dower: Adrien “The Problem” Broner (24-0, 20 KOs) pounded a weaker and badly over-matched Vincente Escobedo (26-4, 15 KOs) on Saturday night, halting him in the 5th round when Escobedo’s corner threw in the towel when things started to go really sour for him at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Broner, 22, was never really troubled by Escobedo, as he had a huge power advantage and a slight weight advantage to go along with it. Broner took his time and with his Mayweather-looking style of fight he was able to pick Escobedo apart at will with shots. In the 3rd round, Escobedo’s nose was broken after being hit with an accidental elbow thrown by Broner. Once the blood started pouring it seemed to take the life out of Escobedo. Broner appeared to aim his shots at the nose and Escobedo must have a lot of pain with each hard right hand that Broner landed to his face.

In the 5th, it go really ugly as Broner started to go for the kill, landing one power shot after another with Escobedo trying to cover up a long the ropes. Escobedo’s trainer Joel Diaz didn’t wait around to see if Escobedo could fight his way out of it and instead he threw in the towel to spare Escobedo a beating. It allowed Escobedo to finish on his feet without having the indignity of being knocked down. The fight was officially halted at 2:42 of the round.

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Unbeaten welterweight Keith Thurman (18-0, 17 KO’s) defeated Orlando Lora (29-3-2, 19 KO’s) by a 6th round TKO. The fight was stopped after the hard hitting Thurman knocked Lora down in the 6th. Lora got up and walked to his corner and that was that. It was all very strange almost like watching someone sparring rather than fighting. Lora likely didn’t win too many fans with that move.

Thurman fought in a kind of strange way during the fight. He had the much better power and looked to be a lot heavier than Lora, yet he ran around the ring most of the fight focusing a lot on throwing his check left hook. He threw some right hands but most of Thurman’s power was in his sneaky left hook that he seemed to be over reliant on to do his work. His hand speed wasn’t all that impressive and his power was just a tad over the average fighter, but HBO was all over him giving him a lot praise that seemed a little overboard for the ability that he showed in the ring.

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In other action on the undercard:

Omar Figureroa UD 10 Dominic Salcido
Danny Calhoun TKO 1 Quincey Palmer
Ra’eese Aleem UD 4 DeVonte Allen
Brandon Bennett UD 8 John Nater
Christopher Pearson TKO 2 Angel Hernandez



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