MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico - In a brilliant performance, undefeated Jose ‘Chiquiro’ Martinez improved his record to 14-0, 9KO’s by dominating Juan ‘Cowi’Herrera with a 8 round unanimous decision and capturing the vacant WBC Latin American super flyweight championship.
Martinez suffered a knockdown in the second round but reset himself to continue the battle to the end - landing bomb after bomb all over Herrera’s head and body.
“It was a great fight, I learned a lot. I give Cowi Herrera a lot of credit he is a true warrior. This was my biggest fight”, Chiquiro Martinez said.
Tough fighter Jovany Fuentes was knocked down in the very first round but came back to push Freddy Ortiz to his limits, scoring a blasting combination to the body and the head - Freddy couldn’t continue the fight and veteran referee Ramon Navedo stopped the fight in round 3. Jovany Fuentes improves his record to 6-6 and 5KO's
In other results, the trilogy between professional wrestler and local sensation Carlos ‘Chicano’ Cotto and veteran Jimmy Suarez was full of excitement. ‘Chicano’ has some big moments during the fight landing jabs and hard combos over Suarez. Suarez was playing games and trying to take Chicano out of his focus and also land some big bombs over Cotto.
Chicano did enough to win a 6 round split decision over Suarez to improve his record to 8-1 with 5 knockouts.
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