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SANTANA BEATS PAREDES AT PORT HUENEME By Ed de la Vega, DDS PhilBoxing.com Sun, 03 Apr 2016  PORT HUENEME, CA -- Saturday night at the Oceanview Pavilion in this city made popular by the US Navy SeaBees, Francisco Santana of Santa Barbara, CA (24-4-1, 12KO) displayed his rapid fire and non stop aggression to beat the slow footed Ed Paredes of Pembrook Pines Florida (36-6-1, 24KO). Santana was so relentless that Paredes never got a chance to catch up with him although he landed a few nice shots, albeit too far in between. The scores were all 100-90 (top photo). In supporting main event, Luis Ramos of Santa Ana, CA (26-2-0, 10KO) won via an exciting phone booth type humdinger over the very willing and tough opponent in Cristobal Cruz of Tijuana, MX. (40-2-4,4KO. Ramos dropped the wily veteran early in round 6 but the Tijuana native used all his experiences in the ring to regain his composure and continue on to fight in the slugfest. In the following round Cruz landed a crisp right that dropped Ramos drawing cheers from the sell out crowd. The judges scored the fight as 78-72 in each of the three cards in favor of Ramos. 
Ramos vs Cruz. 
Mehontsev vs Barragan. Egor Mekhontsev, the London gold medal winning Olympian from Russia (12-0-0, 8KO) knocked down Victor Barragan of Oxnard, CA (12-10-1, 3KO) twice in round 2 and then again in Round 5 leading the referee to stop the fight at 2:52. Xavier Martinez of Sacramento (5-0-0, 3KO) kept his record clean via a 4th round knocked out over Gabriel Gutierrez of El Paso, TX (,3-2-0, 2KO). Martinez managed to knock down Gutierrez twice, once in round 3 and again in round 4 leading to the stoppage of the fight. 
Martinez vs Gutierrez. Other Results: Alexander Besputin of Krasnyoarsk, Russian (3-0-0, 3KO) beat Christon Edwards of Houston, TX ( 6-1-0, 3KO). Abraham Lopez of Rowland Heights, CA (2-1-1) and Eddie Diaz 1-4-1) of Torrance, CA fought to a four round majority draw. Oscar Mendoza of Sta Maria, CA made a successful pro debut by beating Gabriel Braxton of Red Oak, GA (2-`14-0) The event was promoted by Top Rank Boxing and Bash Boxing of Hollywood, CA. It was sponsored by Tecate Beer and shown like on Unimas Deportes TV. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Ed de la Vega, DDS.  |
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