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Bryan Acosta Wins WBA Continental
Americas Featherweight Championship
With Unanimous Decision Over Ronny Rios
Mexican warrior Bryan “Latino” Acosta (21-2, 8 KOs) returned
to the win column by grinding out a fan-friendly 10-round
unanimous decision over 36-year-old longtime contender Ronny
Rios (34-6, 17 KOs) to win the WBA Continental Americas
Featherweight Championship.
Fighting in the 10-round main event of ProBoxTV’s “The
Contender Series” broadcast from Thunder Studios in Long
Beach, California, the two sluggers eschewed the idea of
defense in favor of toe-to-toe back-and-forth warfare
throughout the 10 rounds.
The nearly 10-year youth advantage proved the difference for
the 27-year-old Acosta, as his punch rate and superior
footwork allowed him to frequently force Rios to the ropes
where he was often able to outslug him, especially as the
rounds wore on.
Rios had his moments as well, but Acosta’s iron chin help up
well. The scores were 98-92, 99-91 and 99-91.
Rene “El Bravo” Tellez Giron (23-5, 14 KOs) won the WBC
Continental Americas Lightweight Championship with a
typically thrilling sixth-round knockout over hard-luck
contender “Mayhem” Maliek Montgomery (20-3, 18 KOs) of
Macon, Georgia.
Fighting in the night’s co-feature, Tellez Giron dropped
Montgomery with a flush left hook in the final seconds of
the first round, negating the good work the flashy-fisted
Montgomery had done in the first 2:58 of the opener.
Awakened by the smell of blood, Tellez Giron came out firing
in round two, but Montgomery met his aggression with his own
sharp shots that pushed Giron onto his back foot for much of
the round.
A good action round three was punctuated by a left hook the
liver by Tellez Giron. Then, after two more
forehead-to-forehead rounds in a phonebooth, Montgomery saw
a good round six go up in smoke after getting dropped by a
thudding left to the body, again in the round’s final
seconds.
This time, Montgomery’s corner felt they had seen enough and
asked Referee Gerard White to stop the grueling contest
before the start of round seven.
Popular super lightweight Leonardo Rubalcava (11-1-1, 4 KOs)
of Teocaltiche, Jalisco, Mexico won a dominant eight-round
decision over wild-swinging veteran Juan Antonio Llanes
(12-3-1, 7 KOs) of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. The
tough-as-nails Llanes earned his money, taking a fight-long
beating, especially to the body, but had no answers for the
disciplined power punching of Rubalcava. The doctors took a
long look at the fading Llanes before round eight but
allowed him to see the final bell. The scores were 80-72 by
all three judges.
Hawaiian super welterweight prospect KJ Waialae (4-0, 2 KOs)
won an entertaining six-round over unanimous decision over
formerly undefeated Monray Marable (2-1, 2 KOs) of
Lancaster, California. Waialae’s superior work rate gave him
a slight edge over the eager, but outgunned, Marable.
Marable had a good round four. The scores were 59-55 by all
three judges.
In the opening televised bout, Australia’s Cooper O'Connell
(4-0, 4 KOs) made a successful North American fighting debut
by knocking out formerly undefeated Jorge Garcia Manrriquez
(2-1, 2 KOs) in three rounds. Super lightweight O’Connell
dropped Manrriquez with a left late in the first round and
again in round three with another perfect straight left
hand. Referee Ray Corona waved it off without counting at
the :45 mark.
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