By Francisco Salazar
(GLENDALE, California) - Light heavyweight Egor Mekhontsev (8-0, 7 KOs) won by technical knockout in the first round when his opponent Marcelo DaSilva suffered an injury. After throwing a left hook, DaSilva (18-5, 12 KOs) grabbed his arm, grimacing in pain. It looked as though DaSilva ruptured his left bicep. Since DaSilva was not able to continue, referee Zach Young waved the fight over at 31 seconds, declaring Mekhontsev the winner.
In a battle of one-loss junior lightweights, Angel Rodriguez made sure he remained with only one loss on his record after Saturday's night.
Rodriguez dominated the action through eight rounds, winning a one-sided eight round unanimous decision over Sergio Nunez at the Civic Auditorium.
The bout headlined a seven-bout Top Rank/ Bash Boxing card.
Originally, the scheduled main event bout was between against Saul Rodriguez and Jerry Nardo. However, Rodriguez pulled out of the bout about two weeks ago after coming down with a case of the chicken pox.
Angel Rodriguez entered the bout having won three bouts in a row, while Nunez entered the bout having won two in a row.
From the opening bell, Rodriguez landed right hands repeatedly to the head of Nunez. Rodriguez either landed lead straight right or counter right crosses to the head of Nunez.
As the bout progressed, the area around Nunez's left eye began to show the effects of those right hands Rodriguez was landing.
Nunez tried to mount an offense at times, but a Rodriguez right hand would thwart that offense. Nunez looked somewhat tired towards the end of the fight, throwing very little punches with any effect.
All three judges scored the bout in favor of Rodriguez, 78-74, 78-74, and 79-73.
The Venezuelan-born Rodriguez improves to 12-1, 5 KOs, while Nunez drops to 12-2-1, 8 KOs.
Junior featherweight Toka Kahn Clary won a convincing eight round unanimous decision over Edwin Solis.
Solid pressed the action during the first two rounds, landing lead right crosses to the head of Clary. Solis was able to connect to the body as well.
The southpaw Clary would begin to find a rhythm in the third round, countering Solis with right hooks or lead left crosses to the head. Clary looked as though he stunned Solis on a few occasions with those same punches in the third and fourth rounds.
Solis' punch output dropped considerably in the second half of the fight. Solis exerted too much energy pursuing Clary around the ring, throwing less and less punches with each passing round. Clary hurt Solis with a combination to the head with about a minute left in the eighth round, but the Mexican-born fighter was able to make it to the final bell.
All three judges scored the bout in favor of Clary, 78-74, 78-74, and 78-73.
Clary improves to 15-0 1NC, 9 KOs, while Solis drops to 6-3-3, 4 KOs.
Junior featherweights Luis Sedano (4-0-1, 1 KO) and Karl Garcia fought to a split decision draw after rounds of action. Garcia (4-4-1, 1 KO) dropped Sedano with a left hook to the head and had to hang on as he tired in the last round. One judge had each fighter winning 38-37, while the third judge scored the bout 38-38.
In the opening bout of the Top Rank card, middleweight Cem Kilic stopped Tony Juarez in the second round. The end came when Cilic (3-0, 1 KO) hurt Juarez with a left hook and dropped him with a right hand. Referee Zach Young immediately waved the fight over at 2:51. Juarez (0-5-1 1 NC) remained on the canvas and had to carried out on a stretcher.
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