‘Chiquiro’ Martinez defeats ‘Cowi’ Herrera in Mayagüez
Ponce, Puerto Rico (April 6th, 2015)– Still undefeated Jose ‘Chiquiro’ Martinez improved his record to 14-0 with 9 KOs, dominating Juan ‘Cowi’ Herrera (10-9, 8 KOs) in an eight round unanimous decision capturing the vacant WBC Latin American super flyweight championship on Saturday night at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Martinez suffered a knockdown in the second round but reset himself to continue the battle to the end. “It was a great fight, I learn a lot. I give Cowi Herrera a lot of credit he is a true warrior. This was my biggest fight,” Chiquiro Martinez said.
Tough fighter Jovany Fuentes was knocked down in the very first round but came back to push Freddy Ortiz to his limits scoring a blasting combination to the body and the head that Freddy couldn’t survive. Veteran referee Ramon Navedo stop the fight in round three. Jovany Fuentes improves his record to (6-6, 5KOs).
In other results, the trilogy between professional wrestler and local sensation Carlos ‘Chicano’ Cotto over veteran Jimmy Suarez was full of excitement. ‘Chicano’ has some big moments during the fight landing jabs and hard combos over Suarez. Suarez was playing games and trying to take Chicano out of his focus and also land some big bombs over Cotto. Chicano did enough to win a 6 round split decision over Suarez to improve his record to 8-0-1 with 5 knockouts.
Local hero Ricardo ‘Richy’ Rodriguez improve his record to 3-0 and 3 KOs scoring big shots to Rafael Colon’s body in the second round.
Carlos Velazquez scored a first round KO over Jonathan Guzman also Kelvin Nuñez defeated Jesus J. González by TKO in round 1.
Miguel Canino won a unanimous decision over Mike Erosa and Alexander Charneco got his third victory stoping Luis M.Ortíz in the first round.
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