A dominating performance was promised and a dominating performance was delivered.
Fighting in front of a raucous crowd in his hometown, Costa Rica’s Yokasta Valle scored a complete shutout in one of the best performances of his career against Vietnam’s Thi Thu Nhi Nguyen in a strawweight unification bout at Heiner Ugalde Sports City. in San Jose.
Valle improved to 26-2 with 9 knockouts in this 10-round fight by outscoring her opponent almost 3-1, landing at will from all angles against a skilled and capable champion who was nonetheless completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume. of valley blows.
In making the sixth defense of her IBF title, Valle added Nguyen’s WBO trinket with the kind of performance that could one day help her fulfill her dream of becoming the division’s inaugural Ring Magazine champion. Before the fight, Valle was rated No. 2 by The Ring at 105 pounds.
Judges Julio Alvarado, Samuel Nieto and Eddie Hernandez scored the fight 100-90 across the board for Valle. Nguyen slides to 5-1 (1 KO).
“I feel very happy, I dedicate this fight to all my people and to all the children of Costa Rica,” said Valle. “These two titles stay in Costa Rica. Now we are going for the other two titles”, said the champion, thus challenging fellow champions Seniesa Estrada and Christina Rupprecht.
In the co-main event, Adelaida Ruiz remained undefeated and achieved a measure of revenge against Mexico’s Sonia Osorio in a 10-round rematch of their March 2021 fight that ended in a technical draw after Osorio opened a cut on her head due to a head butt
Ruiz, of California, did a much better job this time of keeping his distance behind his height and reaching the advantage to box beautifully and outwork and ground Osorio, of Mexico City, in a virtual shutout. The scorecards of 100-90, 98-92 and 99-91 reflected Ruiz’s complete dominance.
With the win, Ruiz improves to 12-0 (6 KOs) while Osorio drops to 15-8-2 (4 KOs).
In the only proper knockout of the night, hard-hitting junior welterweight Jose Garcia improved to 16-1 (15 KOs) at the expense of Nicaraguan Israel Lopez (9-3, 7 KOs) in a fine performance from the fighter from Tijuana, Mexico. trained by Marco Antonio Barrera.
The scheduled 10-round bout got off to a fast start when “Superman” Garcia came out pounding and took the first round by surprise. Picking up where he left off, Garcia scored a knockdown early in the second round, followed by another a few seconds later. Garcia was in the process of unleashing the final blitz when referee Mario Gonzalez decided he had seen enough at the 2.06 mark of the second round.
Earlier, Costa Rica’s Jose Perez put up a spirited but ineffective effort against New York’s Ofacio Falcon in a junior lightweight bout scheduled for six rounds. Perez, a volume puncher, swooped in and tried to overwhelm Falcon with dozens of punches, trying to win over the crowd but failing to win over the judges for most of the fight. Fighting from the ropes throughout the match, Falcón demonstrated why he is nicknamed “Sniper” by repeatedly landing with pinpoint accuracy from a distance, outscoring his foe nearly two-to-one, even when landing less than half of his total punches. Perez. The split decision victory went to Falcon with cards of 58-56 (twice) and the rest also 58-56 the other way around for Pérez, who drops to 10-6 (8 KOs) while Falcon improves to 8-0 ( 6 KOs). ).
In the second fight on the telecast, Kyle Erwin lost his undefeated status in a heartbreaking cut-induced TKO loss against local credit Lorenzo Garro in a scheduled four-round bout in the welterweight division.
There was no sensitivity for either fighter as they charged at each other from the sound of the bell, with Garro scoring a virtual knockdown just seconds into the first episode when the referee issued a count on Garro after the ropes prevented him from hitting. would fall the canvas during a sustained onslaught from the Californian wrestler.
The anticlimactic end would come just at minute 1.40 of the second round. A cut opened up on Erwin’s right eyebrow, and the ringside doctor stepped in to check it out. The decision was made to stop the fight, and Garro, already sporting a lump under his left eye, was handed a largely undeserved TKO victory and moved up to 4-0 (2 KO) while Erwin slips to 5- 1 (2 KOs).
In the first bout of the night, local underdog Keiling Fonseca defeated Jose “Karma” Alvarado via split decision in a lightweight bout. A local club fighter who improved to 4-5 (2 KOs) with the win, Fonseca turned the tables on the undefeated Alvarado, who traveled from Ensenada, Mexico with the legendary Marco Antonio Barrera in his corner, with a solid performance in the early rounds, but with Alvarado clearly dominating down the stretch after softening Fonseca with punishing body shots in the second half of the fight. Alvarado began to dig into the body in the fourth, increasing the pressure against a tired Fonseca who nonetheless fought back as best he could. A point deducted from Alvarado in the third round for repeated headbutts may have been the deciding factor in this hotly contested six-round match, won by Fonseca 56-56 and 57-56 (twice). Alvarado slips to 9-1 (5 KOs) with the loss.
