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MEXICAN TWINS MAKE HISTORY
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 01 May 2011
Mexico City. April 30 - Mexican boxing twins Ramon and Raul Garcia, 28, wrote history today by becoming the first set of twins to win world championship fights in the same event.
Ramon, the heavier of the two, stopped Colombian Jesus Geles in the 4th to win the World Boxing Organization (WBO) junior flyweight title while Raul pummelled the Philippines Rommel Asenjo with a barrage of punches in the 3rd prompting the referee to step in and stop the fight.
They become the second set of twins to become world boxing champions at the same time but the first to win championship bouts in one venue on the same night.
The first set of twins to become world boxing champions was Khaosai and Khaokor Galaxy of Thailand.
Ramon worked on the body of the Colombian champion sending him to the canvas in the first and finally in the 4th to avenge a loss suffered earlier this year to Geles in Bogota.
Raul used his jab to pepper the obviously immobile Asenjo who kept on coming forward but was not throwing enough punches.
"I could see the punches coming but I could not move," said Asenjo after the fight. The 21-year-old Filipino cried his heart out in the dug out but was consoled by WBO President Paco Varcalcel for his bravery.
"You are young and brave and you could come back," Valcarcel told Asenjo after the fight.
This could have been the same thought in the mind of referee Raul Caiz when he stepped in and stopped the fight in the 3rd round after Asenjo failed to hit back while pinned to the ropes in the 3rd.
"He was not hitting back," Caiz said.
It was Asenjo's first loss by stoppage in 23 fights. His two previous losses were by decision.
There was celebration on the Mexican side as the Garcia brothers achieved a first in boxing history books.
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