Munguia outlasts Rosado in unanimous decision at Honda Center

ANAHEIM — The archetypal punch was delivered astatine 8:54 p.m. The last, 9:42. All told, Jaime Munguia Jr. and Gabriel Rosado did not halt during their all-action 12-round WBO intercontinental middleweight rubric combat astatine the Honda Center connected Saturday.

Mungaia, 25, retained the loop successful beforehand of a partisan assemblage that roared each clip the Tijuana autochthonal fired disconnected combinations and responded successful benignant to the crippled Rosado.

Judges astatine ringside scored it unanimously for the Mexican combatant (118-110, 119-109, 117-111).

Fighting 113 miles northbound of Tijuana, Munguia felt close astatine location arsenic the assemblage responded to each onslaught helium made, each punch helium dodged, each powerfulness changeable helium absorbed. Attendees astatine the Honda Center had galore reasons to basal and cheer arsenic Munguia and Rosado, 35, delivered the benignant of contention that was anticipated from some men.

Munguia, the unbeaten favourite with Erik Morales successful his corner, continued a cleanable tally astatine 160 pounds aft a stint astatine inferior middleweight, wherever helium held the WBO title.

In his 4th combat astatine 160, Munguia (38-0, 30 KO) was forced to spell the region for the archetypal clip astatine the weight. The show further establishes Munguia arsenic a apical contender to either WBC champion Jermell Charlo oregon WBA titlist Demetrius Andrade.

Fighting retired of Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym successful Hollywood, Rosado, a autochthonal Philadelphia of Puerto Rican descent, earned the accidental to header the DAZN paper erstwhile helium starched Bektemir Melikuiev successful June with representation cleanable overhand close that is connected the shortlist for KO of the year.

During his 12-rounds with Munguia, Rosado (24-16-1, 15 KO) repeatedly attempted that onshore that debilitating punch, but adjacent erstwhile it connected the champion walked forward.

Rosado’s advances were astir ever met by a beardown Munguia response, and the champion gave his supporters everything they wanted by coming connected beardown successful the title rounds to question a decorativeness adjacent though the cards were intelligibly successful his favor.

The assemblage heavy favored Mexican fighters, but that didn’t halt them from chanting the sanction of 24-year-old Santa Ana-based welterweight Alexis Rocha portion helium wore down durable Colombian Jeovanis Barraza en way to a ninth-round stoppage.

Rocha, a southpaw, turned up the unit passim the 10 rounder by hammering Barraza (23-2, 15 KO) with digging hooks to the assemblage and, later, powerfulness shots to the caput among the 233 punches helium landed.

Rocha (18-1, 12 KO) won each circular connected the judges’ cards, and the seventh and eighth periods leaned heavy towards the section fighter, prompting referee Ray Corona to support Barraza and question disconnected the combat 33 seconds into Round 9.

Judges astatine ringside were successful lock-step for Maryland middleweight D’Mitrius Ballard (21-0-1, 11 KO), whose archetypal combat successful 23 months resulted successful a trio of 98-92 scorecards and a unanimous determination implicit Mexico’s Paul Valenzuela Jr. (26-10, 17 KO).

William Zepeda (24-0, 22 KO), of Santa Mateo Atenco, Mexico, retained the WBA continental Americas lightweight rubric with a method knockout astatine 1:59 of Round 4 against Miami’s John Moralde (26-10, 17 KO).