Crack! Luis Rosa Returns and Scores Broken Nose TKO, Pagan Returns and Scores TKO
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
*Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media
New York, NY (October 8th, 2015)–In the ten round main event of a six bout card at BB King Blues Club & Grill promoted by DiBella Entertainment and Alex Khanas Promotions in New York City on Wednesday evening, October 7, 2015, former New York Golden Gloves champion and current junior welterweight contender Luis Rosa returned and remained unbeaten with a brutal sixth round TKO of game but outmatched Ariel Vazquez. Shmuel Pagan also returned to action.
Cruz, now 11-0, five knockouts, Bronx, New York, coming off a ten month layoff due to hand surgery, dropped Vazquez twice in the first round with a speed right jab, then a counter right hook. Vazquez, now 12-10-2 with eight knockouts, Managua, Nicaragua, then changed from a ‘plan A’ offensive style bout to a ‘Plan B’ defensive strategy after the second knockdown and fought Cruz as a counterpuncher and hung tough. Vazquez went down a third time in the fourth round from a right hand and left hook combination.
In the sixth round, Vazquez, who moved well from side to side the entire bout, got caught standing in front of Cruz briefly in a corner. Cruz responded with a powerful right hand shot to the face of Vazquez which caused a sickened loud crack! Cruz broke the nose of Vazquez, who amazingly stayed on his feet and tried to battle on. Noted cut man and corner man Manuel ‘Diablo’ Calderone then signaled his New York State Athletic Commission corner official to have referee Danny Schiavone to stop the bout. “I had to stop it. He had not won a round and was badly hurt and bleed profusely (from the nose). He would have gotten badly hurt if the bout was allowed to continue. I didn’t want that as (beyond a certain point) you have to look out for the safety of your fighter.”
On the plus side, Cruz also got some good work in, boxed patiently, calm and cool throughout, and got excellent television exposure on Broadway Boxing in his first main event. It can safely be said from the opening bell the bout was never going the full ten. Vazquez, while no carbon copy of the late Alexis Arguello, gave a good accounting of himself, gamely traveling from Managua, Nicaragua to try to win this bout against all odds.
Result: Louis Cruz TKO 6 Ariel Vazquez, Junior Welterweight Main Event (2:41)
Vazquez down twice in first round, down in fourth, and suffered a broken nose in sixth.
Referee: Danny Schiavone. Corner cut man Manuel ‘Diablo’ Calderone stops bout.
BB King Blues Club & Grill Undercard Bouts
Referees: Danny Schiavone and Johnny Callas
Ivan Golub TKO 3 Kendal Mena, Super Welterweights (1:54)
Havoc boxing Ukrainian southpaw Golub, 8-0, still improving under Andre Rozier.
Steed Woodall TKO 4 Javier Loya, Super Middleweights (0:39)
British fighter Woodall, relocated in Miami, continues to get good work in on the rise.
Peter Dobson Win Referee’s Technical Decision 3 Tavorus Teague, Super Welterweights
Dobson landed meticulous power shots on limited Teague, forcing him to hold or get hit.
Carlos Adames TKO 1 Rudy Lozano, Super Welterweights (2:38)
Adames decked Lozano with an overhand right. Lozano not holding or moving well.
Shemuel Pagan TKO1 David Nelson, Super Welterweights (2:42)
Pagan, after 18 month layoff due to dental surgery, decked Nelson twice with body shots.
Ivan Baranchyk 8-0 SCRATCH Gyorgy Mizsei Jr. 20-12, Super Lightweights
Budapest, Hungary 32 bout veteran Mizsei did not clear NYSAC after New York MRI test
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