By Manuel Perez: Tomorrow night for a change boxing fans will be served up an excellent fight card with light middleweight contender James Kirkland (24-0, 21 KOs) taking on Joel Julio (34-2, 31 KOs), super featherweight contender and former featherweight champion Robert Guerrero (23-1, 16 KOs) facing undefeated Indonesian Daud Cino Yordan (23-0, 17 KOs) and light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (23-1-1, 18 KOs) facing ring technician Mike Arnaoutis (21-2-2, 10 KOs) at The Tank, in San Jose, California.
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News: Arnaoutis-Ortiz, Guerrero-Yordan, Kirkland-Julio This Saturday
HBO Sports serves up a triple header of action when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: JAMES KIRKLAND VS. JOEL JULIO, VICTOR ORTIZ VS. MIKE ARNAOUTIS AND ROBERT GUERRERO VS. DAUD YORDAN is presented SATURDAY, MARCH 7 at 10:00 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT), from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Cal., exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports team will be ringside for the event, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino.
Johnson Defeats Judah, Wants Dawson Now; Ortiz vs. Arnaoutis – News
Friday night at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, former world light heavyweight champion Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson finally got his chance to put his controversial 2003 draw with Daniel Judah to rest, and he made the most of his opportunity, scoring a near shutout ten round decision over his opponent in the main event of ESPN2 Friday Night Fights.
Guerrero vs. Yordan, Julio vs. Kirkland On March 7th
By Dave Lahr: Two-time International Boxing Federation featherweight champion Robert Guerrero (23-1-1, 16 KOs) will face unbeaten Indonesian Daud Cino Yordan (23-0, 17 KOs) in a 10-round bout at The Tank, in San Jose, California. Guerrero, 25, is coming off an impressive 1st round TKO over Edel Ruiz On January 24th on the undercard of the WBA welterweight showdown between then champion Antonio Margarito and Shane Mosley.
Boxing News: Kirkland-Julio, Guerrero-Yordan, Ortiz-Arnauutis
Boxing’s next generation of stars will be present and accounted for on Saturday, March 7, when Golden Boy Promotions presents an explosive triple-header boxing event featuring the top young talent in the sport at HP Pavilion at San Jose located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Ortiz Stops Resto
By Dave Lar: Light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (23-1-1, 18 KOs) had an easy time taking out Jeffrey Resto (22-3, 13 KOs) in the 2nd round of scheduled 12-round bout on Saturday to defend his WBO NABO light welterweight title on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs. Oscar De La Hoya at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jacobs, Ortiz and Lopez on Pacquiao-De La Hoya Undercard
By Jim Dower: Perhaps the best fighter on the Manny Pacquiao vs. Oscar De La Hoya tonight won’t be either of those two fighters but rather a still largely unknown super middleweight by the name of Daniel Jacobs (12-0, 11 KOs), who has knocked out eleven of his twelve opponents, with eight of them coming in the first round. Although some would point to his soft opposition and say that anyone would with a shred of talent would be able to do the same thing as Jacobs has accomplished.
Ortiz Defeats Arrieta; Jacobs Smashes Espinoza – Boxing News
By Chris Williams: Unbeaten light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (22-0-1, 17 KOs) looked good in defeating an over-matched Roberto David Arrieta (30-14-4, 13 KOs) in a 5th round stoppage to win the vacant WBO NABO light welterweight title on Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ortiz, 21, knocked Arrieta, an Argentinean, down three times in the fight – once in the 2nd, 4th and 5th – with the third knockdown resulting in referee Jay Nady stopping the fight at 2:25 of the 5th round. Ortiz, who looked positively in his last fight against power puncher Dairo Esalas in May, fought much better against the soft-punching Arrieta. Without having to worry about getting hit with any kind of power shots like the ones that Esalas was tagging Ortiz with in his last fight, Ortiz looked good and dominated Arrieta from start to finish.
Ortiz stalked Arrieta around the ring in the first round, hitting him with power jabs and left hooks to the head. He fought very tight, as if he were nervous and expecting anything from Arrieta. Ortiz needed worry, because Arrieta couldn’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag, as it turns out. After getting decked by Esalas in his last fight, this was a good thing for Ortiz, because he needed to especially look good after struggling last time out.
Ortiz Too Much For Esalas
By Aaron Klein: Light welterweight prospect Victor Ortiz (21-1-1, 16 KOs) overcame an early third round scare in which he was knocked down to come back and knockout journeyman fighter Dairo Esalas (30-13, 24 KOs) in the 5th round off a scheduled 10-round bout at the Home Deport Center, in Carson, California. Ortiz, 21, looking a lot like a poor man’s version of welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, knocked Esalas down three times in the bout, the last time in the fifth round with a searing right hand that flattened Esalas for the 10-count. Oddly enough, it wasn’t Ortiz who was the harder puncher of the two, for Esalas appeared to have the better punch, at least with his right hand.
Obviously, the high percentage of KOs on Esalas’ record was indicative of him having some major power but it was a bit of surprise that he would turn out to be the better puncher than Ortiz, considering how hyped the young 21 year-old prospect has become in the last year with many people seeing him as a can’t miss future champion in the light welterweight division. Whatever the case, Ortiz can be excused for getting dropped by a puncher like Esalas, especially because Ortiz seemed to anxiously trying to stop him as early as possible, perhaps to make a good impression due to this fight being on the undercard of the Oscar De La Hoya vs. Steve Forbes bout.
Ortiz Stops Clottey
Welterweight Victor Ortiz (19-1-1, 14 KOs) came on late in the 10th round to knockout veteran Emmanuel Clottey (24-8, 14 KOs), the older brother of Joshua Clottey, on Thursday night at the Grand Plaza, in Houston, Texas. Clottey, 33, was knocked down twice in the tenth, before the referee Ronnie Halston swiftly moved in to put a stop to the bout at 2:59, with just a second to go in the tenth round. Up until then, Clottey had did little to distinguish himself in the fight, often throwing only a handful of punches each round while attempting to mostly avoid getting hit. He never seemed to get untracked during the fight, and only showed brief hints of the kind of talent that his younger brother, Joshua, posses.
Clottey was hurt several times in the fight, the sixth, seventh and ninth rounds, by left hands from Ortiz. It’s surprising he wasn’t hurt more, given the lack of any real retaliation punches thrown by Clottey all fight long. On the rare occasions Clottey did decide to punch, Ortiz didn’t appear to like it much and gave him a lot of respect, perhaps too much in the end because the fight could have ended earlier if Ortiz had pushed himself.