Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor
Mexicans claim victories in WBC title bouts
WBN Editor
Erik ‘El Terrible’ Morales is the new WBC light-welterweight
champion after a punishing ten round fight with Pablo Cesar Cano at the MGM
Grand in Las Vegas.
The 35 year-old started off slowly allowing Cano, 21, to get
a foothold in the bout in the first two rounds. The Mexican legend then got
into the fight in round three and hit the younger fighter with some hard right
hands which visibly marked-up ‘El Demoledor’ around the left eye.
In the middle rounds, the swelling opened up a cut on the
eyelid which affected Cano’s vision and Morales teed-off with some vicious
combinations that Cano had no answer to. The end came after the tenth
with the number twelve ranked fighter a bloody mess and with next to no vision
out of his left eye to which Morales picked off at will.
Morales’ victory gives him his seventh world title and the
title of the first Mexican to win four world titles in four weight-classes and
further seals his already guaranteed place in boxing history
.
Also on the Star Power bill, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez retained
his WBC light-middleweight title with a sixth round stoppage win over a game
Alfonso Gomez. The 21 year-old put the challenger down in the first with a
slick body shot before picking and choosing his moments to attack and hurting
the former TV star at his pleasure.
Alvarez rocked Gomez in the sixth round and immediately
jumped on him with constant pressure until the referee Wayne Hedgpeth stepped
in with Gomez looking shaken. The win is Alvarez’s second successful defence
and takes his record to 38-0-1 with his 28th KO.