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| Cherry overpowered Escobedo in six rounds Saturday. (AP) |
Woodland’s Vicente Escobedo never recovered from an early knockdown
and was stopped by Edner Cherry in the sixth round of a junior lightweight bout
in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on Saturday night.
Escobedo (NorCal No. 7; 26-5, 14 KOs), who was coming off a
controversial loss in a 130-pound title fight against Adrien Broner last July, hit
the canvas in the closing seconds of the first frame when Cherry (31-6-2, 17
KOs) connected with a left hand to the midsection and followed it with a right
hand upstairs.
Though Escobedo would beat the count, Cherry, fighting out of Miami,
Fla., would finish the job in the sixth with two more knockdowns; most of the
damage resulted from heavy right hands. With
Escobedo on all fours, referee Allan Huggins officially waved off the bout at
3:00.
Escobedo, a 2004 Olympian, has lost two in a row after a four-bout
winning streak.
CSN Bay
Area Boxing Insider Ryan Maquiñana is a voting member of the Boxing Writers
Association of America and panelist for Ring Magazine’s Ratings Board. E-mail him at rmaquinana@gmail.com, check out
his blog at Norcalboxing.net, or follow him on Twitter: @RMaq28.
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