By Francisco Salazar

Another fight, another victory for junior welterweight Brandun Lee.

The 19-year-old Lee knocked out veteran Pablo Batres in the opening round Saturday night at the Arabia Shrine Center in Houston, Texas.

After peppering Batres with jabs to the face, Lee dropped Batres with a lead, straight right hand to the temple. Batres struggled to get as referee James Green counted him out at 2:14.

Lee, who resides in the Southern California desert community of La Quinta, improves to 12-0, 10 KOs. He has won six of his last seven bouts by knockout.

Saturday night marked the fifth fight for Lee, who is half-Mexican and half-Korean.

Another 19-year-old notched an opening round knockout of his own.

Light heavyweight Christian Montano (7-0, 6 KOs) of Las Vegas stopped Patrick Pierre (2-6) at 52 seconds.

Both Lee and Montano are managed by Cameron Dunkin.

In junior middleweight action, Jarrico Walton won a one-sided decision over Ariel Vasquez (13-23-2, 9 KOs) of Nicaragua. All three judges scored the bout 60-54 for Walton, who improves to 10-0, 6 KOs.

Vasquez has now lost 14 of his last 15 bouts.

Middleweight Kurtiss Colvin (15-2, 9 KOs) won a six round unanimous decision over Jonathan Garcia (4-18-1, 1 KO). All three judges scored the bout 58-56 in favor of Colvin.

Junior lightweight Antonio Williams (8-0, 4 KOs) notched another victory as opponent Eric Manriquez (6-5-1 1 NC, 3 KOs) was disqualified at 1:10 of the third round.

Francisco A. Salazar has written for krikya360.com since September of 2012 and has covered boxing in Southern California and abroad since 2000. Francisco also covers boxing for the Ventura County (Calif.) Star newspaper. He can be reached by email at santio89@yahoo.com or on Twitter at FSalazarBoxing.