Last night, Edwin ?The Liquidator? Valero, 23-0, 23 KO?s, retained his WBA Super Featherweight Title, and it dawned on me up until now if anybody would ask him if he had dared carried a few bricks with him in there or not?
Carrying both fearlessness and menace, Valero not only took on a fighter who by definition alone was a smaller welterweight, but quieted some of his staunchest disbelievers about him taking on bigger substantial prey. What Valero did do was to convince you, like the fighters of old, that physics and science at times don?t always jive with boards hitting back like in a Bruce Lee movie.
Last night?s ?Cancun Night of Champions? broadcast brought through In Demand, DirecTV, TVN PPV, and The Dish Network, left no stone uncovered, and much kudos go to the entire team for treating the boxing public to such a thrilled evening. In Plaza de Toros, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, we came across the premier 126-130 pound fighter of our times. And it is time to re-evaluate his condition and get him back in the states.
It didn?t take long for WBA Super Featherweight Champion Edwin ?The Liquidator? Valero, 23-0, 23 KO?s, to rediscover his penchant to hurting as he hit Zaid ?The Exterminator? Zavaleta, 17-3-2, 9 KO?s. The noble galloping cowboy was steadfast and precise in assorted deliveries that came mixed from bolo punches, which started from the back behind the hip to launch destructive destinations of solarplexes and tummy. While jabbing to range finding brilliance with the right, Valero fired his straight left protocol equivalent to an atom bomb on the chin of Zaid, who began to distance himself.
Although the Guadalajara Mexican native looked prepared and well equipped to take Valero into the fight, those ideas soon became dispelled with the speed of Edwin?s punches, and a straight one cracked the head of Zavaleta that contorted him twisting from one side of the ring to the neutral corner taking a mandatory count at the end of round the first round.
Zavaleta looked ambushed in every exchange he attempted, as the end came from a single right swipe that clipped the left side of Zaid?s chin as he fell back into the ropes and onto referee Luis Pabon?s extended arms (TKO 3), retaining the title. Edwin spat his mouthpiece out, and then in the same motion kicked it with his straight right foot out front like a field goal kicker does at a soccer game into the audience. He traditionally brings his children into the ring with him
