Fox Theater Pomona, Pomona, California, USA. In the co-main bout of the evening in the second middleweight limit (up to 76.2 kg), American middleweight Shane Mosley Jr. (19-4, 10 KOs) did not impress in a fight with
Mario Alberto Lozano (33-11, 24 KOs) from Mexico.
Mosley slowly pursued Lozano. I tried to pinch the opponent at the ropes, and then I started to combine. The Mexican shot back with a jab, sometimes countered with a check-hook. In the 4th round, the American began to initiate exchanges, more and more often he leaned on blows to the body.
Shane Mosley Jr. is heating up as we enter the 5th round
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In the 6th three-minute period, Lozano began to more confidently intercept the favorite’s attacks and even seized the initiative. The fighters had time to exchange both blows and barbs. But there was no bright action – very weak for the co-main event of the show.
Mosley looked brighter at the start of the fight and looked more confident in the exchange in the last seconds of the fight. Most likely, they will give him the victory. But the fight turned out to be unexpectedly competitive.
Things are getting choppy here @1ShaneMosleyJr leaving it all on the canvas #NeryHovhannisyan | LIVE on @daznboxing @Foxtheater pic.twitter.com/q2xohjt2r5
— Golden Boy (@GoldenBoyBoxing) February 19, 2023
Judges score: 100-90, 99-91 and 99-91. Horrible…
Mosley UD 10.
Slightly slowed down top flyweight fighter (up to 50.8 kg) American Ricardo Sandoval (21-2, 16 KOs) closed an offensive defeat in the eliminator with a victory over Kherson Ortiz (17-7, 8 KOs) from Nicaragua.
In the 2nd round, the favorite dropped the opponent with a blow to the body. He was unable to get to his feet. Ortiz has never lost before.
Ricardo Sandoval ends it in the 2nd with a VICIOUS body shot #NeryHovhannisyan pic.twitter.com/iTEXvDa1mk
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Sandoval KO 2.
In the limit of the second featherweight (up to 59 kg), the multiple US champion in different age categories and the winner of the Youth Amateur World Championship
Eza Stevens (4-0, 2 KOs) beat a certain
Henna Gonzalez (9-17-1, 5 KOs) from Nicaragua.
Gonzalez visited the canvas in the opening round, and in the 2nd three-minute period his corner refused to continue the fight.
@asa_stevens_ did not hold back
Winner by KO, Corner stoppage to end the fight.#NeryHovhannisyan | LIVE on @daznboxing @Foxtheater pic.twitter.com/82cpxxk1hV
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Stevens KO 2.