By: Sean Crose
The 12-0 Jose Venezuela faced Edwin De Los Santos in a scheduled 10-round bout in the lightweight division on Sunday. The fight was the first of four scheduled on the Andy Ruiz-Luis Ortiz pay-per-view undercard. The southpaw De Los Santos looked strong and aggressive in the first. He even hurt his shoulder at the end of the round.
Things didn’t get much better for Valenzuela in the second, until he was able to put his man down. However, De Los Santos got to his feet and then knocked down Venezuela, who then beat the count himself, while De Los Santos lost a point for being too aggressive when his opponent was going down. However, it was all over in the third round, as Venezuela first took a knee and was then saved by the referee when De Los Santos went for the figurative kill.
