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Fighting for their sixteenth occasion on ESPN Friday Night Fights plus sixth in front of a massive crowd at the Mohegan Sun Arena, Star Boxing’s Delvin Rodriguez once more displayed the spirit of a warrior winning the fierce battle against former world title challenger Freddy “El Riel” Hernandez with an eighth round stoppage.
An intense battle through the entire first seven rounds with each fighter working aggressively and punishing each other, however Rodriguez got the upper hand-often hurting Hernandez with excellent combinations.
Through out their fight, both the punches plus clashes of heads caused numerous cuts for each fighter with both fighting valiantly in front of this “loud and proud” area fight fans.
The awful cut over the left eye of Hernandez triggered their fight to be halted in the seventh round.
Initially scored as a majority decision towards Rodriguez, the result ended up being changed to a technical knockout because replays revealed Rodriguez’s final battering punches caused the cut resulting in the stoppage.
Because of this win, Rodriguez enhances his boxing record to 29-6-3 (17KO’s), while Hernandez drops to 30-6-0 (20KO’s).
“This victory was indicative of Delvin’s whole career, fan friendly and usually doing exactly what is needed in order to win,” stated Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing. “This was another exciting outing for him furthermore we are looking for bigger fights ahead.”
In the televised junior welterweight co-main event, Crossville, Tennessee’s Chris Howard increased to 16-2-1 (7KO’s), giving New York City’s Issouf Kinda their first loss, now 16-1-0 (6KO’s).
Fighting on the inside through the entire fight, Howard encountered a puffy left eye coming from an unintentional head butt within the first stanza. After six rounds of excellent two-way action, the bout was stopped as the ringside doctor decided that Howard can no longer see out of their left eye.
Because the cut which triggered this stoppage was ruled the result of an unintentional head butt, they went to the judges scorecards. The split decision went in support of Howard, as scores were 58-56 two times for Howard and 59-55 for Kinda.
In a four round heavyweight fight, Catskill, New York City local, Constantin Bejenaru, 3-0-0 (2KO’s) and Excell Holmes, 2-1-1- (1KO), out of Buffalo, New York’s bout got stopped inside the second round because Bejenaru suffered a deep forehead cut from an unintentional head-butt and also the fight was stopped with a no-decision being declared.
The stoppage towards the very end of the second stanza was unfortunate for Bejenaru whom had excited the Mohegan Sun Arena audience using his Mike Tyson-pit-bull like style throughout the action. On completion of the second round, Bejenaru would have been awarded the victory in accordance with their dominant performance.
Junior middleweight prospect Michael Moore out of Cleveland, Ohio, stayed undefeated, increasing their record to 12-0-0 (6KO’s) winning a unanimous decision over Lancaster, PA veteran Doel Carrasquillo, 17-24-1 (17KO”s). Scores were 60-54 twice and 59-55.
Additionally on the undercard New Haven, Connecticut’s Jimmy Williams enhanced to 3-0-0 (2KO’s), halting Marqus Jackson, 2-10-0 (2KO’s) of Atlanta, GA inside the 3rd round of the scheduled four round welterweight fight.
Rounding off the undercard, New York City super middleweight Michael Mitchell, 1-1-1, claimed a four round shutout unanimous decision over Saul Almeida, 0-1-0, of Framingham, New York City. Scores were 40-36 on all three scorecards.
