Ugly but effective.
Richard Torrez Jr. showed resilience, angles, and volume in a scrappy affair Saturday night in Las Vegas.
The 2020 Olympic silver medalist emerged victorious in a 10-round unanimous decision over fellow Olympian Guido Vianello in a Top Rank on ESPN main event. The scores were 97-92, 98-91, and 98-91, all for Torrez, who improved to (13-0, 11 KOs).
It was all Torrez in the opening round. He charged directly at Vianello to start the fight and immediately attacked him to the body. With 1:09 left in the frame, Torrez caught Vianello with a sharp left hand that temporarily froze him in his tracks. Vianello was also warned multiple times for excessive holding.
Vianello continued to struggle with Torrez’s work rate in the second round and was warned twice for holding as Torrez ripped him with shots on the inside. Following a third interruption for holding, referee Thomas Taylor took a point away from Vianello.
In the third round, Vianello made an adjustment and started moving to Torrez’s left, allowing him to parry his left and connect with the right hand. Down the stretch, Vianello connected with a right to the jaw.
There was a lull in the action in the fourth round when things regressed into a sloppy holding fest that mirrored a beginner dancer’s course, which wasn’t appreciated by the fans and resulted in a trio of boos.
Vianello shook up Torrez midway through the fifth round with a series of right hands that buckled his man. But the 6-foot-6, 242-pound Vianello allowed Torrez to regain his footing and found himself pinned against the ropes. Thirty seconds later, Vianello started to change levels and connected with a combination. As he made his way to his corner, Vianello was also sporting some blood underneath his right eye.
Vianello was able to use his jab in the sixth round to keep Torrez at bay. This prevented the hard-charging American from smothering his punches and rendering his best weapons useless.
That success lasted until the eighth when Torrez staggered him with a hard left hand. However, Torrez let him off the hook by smothering him. This forced Taylor to get between the fighters, allowing Vianello more time to recover. And indeed, Vianello fired back with a quartet of right hands late in the frame.
A cut opened up above the right of Torrez in the ninth after an accidental headbutt ripped a seam in his face, but that didn’t deter him from his mission going into the 10th, knocking Vianello out. Although he was unsuccessful in that endeavor, he managed to hurt Vianello to the body, but both men made it to the final bell to the applause of the crowd.
According to Compubox, Torrez landed 92 of 245 punches (38%), and Vianello connected with 88 of 318 blows (28%).
Vianello, who entered the ring coming off the biggest win of his career to date, an eighth-round TKO of Arslanbek Makhmudov, fell to (13-3-1, 11 KOs).
Torrez, a 25-year-old southpaw from Tulare, California, went the distance for the first time in his career. Last September, Torrez won a fight that didn’t end in a knockout but rather a disqualification when Philadelphia’s Joey Dawejko was disqualified for repeatedly spitting his mouthpiece out.
Lindolfo Delgado Defeats Elvis Rodriguez In A Close Fight
Lindolfo Delgado was triumphant in a long-winded chess match.
The Mexican 140-pounder racked up points early on, overcame getting hurt in the ninth round, and held on for a majority decision victory over Elvis Rodriguez in the chief support bout. Judges Eric Cheek and David Sutherland scored 96-94 for Delgado, while Chris Migliore scored it even at 95-95.
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For Delgado (23-0, 16 KOs), it was the most significant win of the 2016 Olympian’s career to date. He also snapped Rodriguez’s six-fight winning streak dating back to May of 2021.
Delgado targeted the body in round two and connected with a right hand late in the third frame that moved Rodriguez back into the ropes. In the fourth round, Rodriguez finally came out of his shell and changed his punch variation, as he took the fight to the center of the ring and connected with a combination on Delgado.
Delgado connected with three rights in the fifth round. The shots didn’t appear to bother Rodriguez, but his face told a different story as swelling began to develop underneath his left eye. Rodriguez stepped on the gas in the seventh round and clopped Delgado with a left hand just as he was trying to get his guard up. He followed up with a left hook that knocked him off balance.
Rodriguez buzzed Delgado with a straight left hand directly on the chin, sending the crowd into a frenzy. The ropes held up a disoriented Delgado, but referee Allen Huggins didn’t rule it a knockdown.
Rodriguez went on the attack from the onset of the 10th, but his aggression came back to bite him as Delgado recovered to land the cleaner shots throughout the final round. According to Compubox, Rodriguez landed 94 of 408 punches (23%), while Delgado connected with 89 of 300 blows (30%).
Abdullah Mason stops Carlos Ornelas
It looked like a video game on amateur mode for Abdullah Mason.
The unbeaten lightweight dropped a brave Carlos Ornelas three times enroute to a sixth-round stoppage in their scheduled 10-round affair.
Mason was in control from the onset. The key to the fight was his southpaw jab and a powerful left hand that consistently had Ornelas fighting on the back foot. Mason timed Ornelas with a sharp left hook in the second round that caused him to suffer a delayed reaction that sent him down to a knee. Ornelas caught Mason with a sharp uppercut in round three but couldn’t follow up with anything of note. Mason continued to dictate the pace and dropped Ornelas again in the fourth on another delayed reaction from a well-placed shot, courtesy of an overhand left that forced Ornelas to take another knee by the ropes.
Mason nailed Ornelas again in the sixth round with a three-punch combination of hooks and uppercuts that sent him down for the third time in the fight. After Ornelas’ corner contemplated stopping the fight in-between rounds, the ringside doctor made the decision for them, officially making it a sixth-round stoppage for Mason.
With the victory, the 21-year-old Mason of Cleveland, Ohio, improved to 18-0 (16 KOs), while Mexico’s Ornelas dropped to (28-5, 15 KOs).
Undercard Action
- Featherweights: Albert Gonzalez (13-0, 7 KOs) UD8 Dana Coolwell (13-4, 8 KOs)
- Junior bantamweights: Steven Navarro (6-0, 5 KOs) TKO 4 Juan Garcia (14-2-2, 11 KOs)
- Junior middleweights: Art Barrera Jr. (8-0, 6 KOs) TKO2 Daijohn Gonzalez (12-6, 6 KOs)
- Middleweights: Jahi Tucker (14-1-1, 6 KOs) UD10 Troy Williamson (20-4-1, 14 KOs)
- Junior lightweights: DJ Zamora (16-0, 11 KOs) TKO4 Hugo Alberto Castaneda (15-2-1, 11 KOs)
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