Hooker Stops Late Sub Perez, Jacobs Stops Overweight Chavez on DAZN

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

 

Phoenix, Arizona(December 21, 2019)–   Former World Boxing Organization World Super Lightweight champion Maurice Hooker, returning at welterweight five months after losing his title in a unification bout to WBC World champion Jose Carlos Ramirez, scoring an easy first-round knockout over Uriel Perez at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona on December 20, 2019, televised on DAZN. Perez was a last-minute replacement substitute for Pedro Campa, and may not have been fully prepared for the bout, but he did take the opportunity bout.




 

Hooker, 27-1-3 with 8 knockouts, Dallas, Texas, a tall fighter with a long reach advantage, used his long jab right hand to land pinpoint head and body shots in a corner and finish off Perez, 19-5 with 17 knockouts, Queretaro, Mexico. Perez and Hooker had boxed cautiously until near the end of the round when Perez went down, holding his side after a Hooker body shot. Perez beat the bout, but indicated he did not want to continue. Perez was coming off a fifth-round knockout upset win over 17-0-2 Mathieu Germain. However, Perez’ record indicated he had been taken out in the first round twice before.

 

Hooker struggled to match the welterweight catchweight of 144 pounds, but he will go back down to the 140 pound junior welterweight division where he has dominated, after this return bout with his new trainer Brian ‘Bomac’ McIntyre, better known as the trainer of 36-0 WBO World Welterweight champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford.

 

Noted Hooker “I want to go back to 140 (pounds). I want my (world title) belt back. The (higher) weight didn’t bother me. I was prepared. I got a new team. Brian helped me rhythm, with my head movement, my defense, everything. I wanna get my belt back. Going out like this (my titular loss to Jose Ramirez), like a coward, I want my (WBO) belt back (in a possible rematch in 2020).” 25-0 Ramirez might move up to challenge Crawford in 2020 instead, which would vacate Hooker’s original WBO belt. However, Maurice must get back his next challenger, former WBC World Super Lightweight champion Victor Postol, in February 2020.




 

Result: Maurice Hooker TKO 1 Uriel Perez, Welterweights (2:52)

Referee: Tony Zaino. Perez down in first round.

 

Former World Middleweight champion Daniel ‘Miracle Man’ Jacobs stopped Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in five rounds on the same DAZN card. The bout was fought at light heavyweight. Chavez, who had boxed only 86 seconds in the past 31 months, showed up at 172 ¾ pounds to Jacobs 167 ¾ pounds.

 




Chavez came forward with a good jab, and did well in rounds one, two, and five. Jacobs clearly outboxed Chavez in the third and fourth rounds. It looked like a good fight while it lasted, until its odd and abrupt ending out of the blue. Chavez suddenly gave up in his corner after the fifth round, complaining of breathing problems. Over ten thousand paying fans at ringside disliked the quitter in Chavez, with some booing fans hurling debris into the ring in a scene reminiscent of Marvelous Marvin Hagler versus Alan Minter. At 33 years old, Chavez, 51-4-1 with 33 knockouts, Culican, Mexico, has lost to his greater opponent. His enemy is inactivity. Jacobs, 36-3 with 30 knockouts, Brooklyn, New York, can now pursue any world title opportunity at 168 pounds.  The Jacobs corner probably expected a significant 12 round effort from Chavez. They didn’t get it, but that’s boxing in the theater of the unexpected.

 

Result: Daniel Jacobs TKO 5 Julio Cesar Chavez, Light Heavyweights

Referee: Wes Melton. Chavez quit on his stool. Chavez weighed in overweight.

 

Julio Cesar Martinez Aguilar TKO 9 Cristofer Rosales, Flyweights (1:19)

Aguilar wins vacant World Boxing Council World Flyweight title

Aguilar, Mexico City, Mexico, is now 15-1 with 14 knockouts.

Rosales is now 29-5, 20 knockouts, Managua, Nicaragua.

WBC Supervisor: Rex Walker

 

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