Soto-Karass walks through Lau
IB (November 29, 2008) - To no one’s surprise, Jesus Soto Karass makes easy work of Hicklet Lau. Soto-Karass immediately jumped on Lau battering him from rings edge to edge. It only took two minutes into the second round for this contest to end. After being knocked down, referee Russell Mora halts the beating and saves Lau from further discomfiture.
Lau had a professional ring record of 20 wins, 17 losses and 2 draws coming into this contest against Soto-Karass who was undefeated in his last dozen fights stretching back almost 2 and a half years. Soto-Karass’ ring record now stands at 22-3-3.
What did Telefutura and the promoter think was going to happen in this contest? It’s no wonder Telefutra has pulled the plug on the Solo Boxeo series, the shows flat out stink. And the stench doesn’t go away too quickly, kind of like Diesel fuel, goes up and comes back down to hang around a while.
If Telefutura is going to spend somewhere in the neighborhood of 60,000 to produce this garbage of mismatches then they really need to save the money. Personally I believe they need to get rid of the person signing off on these promotions and get someone who understands the meaning of evenly matched contests.
The co main event gives a little more to report, as New Mexico’s local hero Joaquin Zamora (17-2-1) ran into stiff competition against Nebraskan Jose Luis Gonzalez (12-5-1).
Zamora found himself on the seat of his trunks in the first round and quickly realized he was in a fight, this was by no means a give-me fight. In the second round Gonzalez continues to press the action trying to end this fight however Zamora survives the onslaught and comes back to have a decent 3rd and 4th round. The 5th and 6th rounds went back and forth with both fighters having good opportunities and scoring.
Rounds 7 and 8 Gonzalez seems to be tired and fights in a “coasting” mode, throwing punches in spurts and doing just enough to keep the rounds close. Lack of effort is the best way to describe Gonzalez’ action in these rounds, give them to Zamora for effort.
Rounds 9 and ten, Gonzalez must have gotten a second wind and becomes the aggressor consistently pinning Zamora against the ropes and scoring effectively, definitely Gonzalez rounds.
Rounds 1,2,9 and ten clearly go to Gonzalez with round 1 being a 10-8 round due to the knock down but hometown scoring prevails, Zamora wins by unanimous decision, 95-94 judges Levi Martinez and Margaret Garcia and 97-72 judge Chris Tellez. Regardless of the outcome, a good and entertaining contest.
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