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Caballero dethrones Barros

15 Oct 2011 15:42       hits 1272 Print version

Celestino Caballero
Celestino Caballero © AFP
In a WBA-mandated rematch, Celestino Caballero (35-4, 23 KOs) of Panama won the WBA featherweight championship by way of unanimous decision over now former champion Jonathan Victor Barros (33-2-1, 18 KOs) on Friday night at the famous Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Caballero erased all controversy from the first fight that he lost by split decision and completely dominated this fight from beginning to end. Caballero almost was able to get Barros out of there in round 11 but Barros survived the round. The official scores were 116-111, 118-111, 116-112 all in favor of Caballero, who previously was a unified champion at 122.

Light heavyweight Roberto Feliciano Bolonti (27-1, 17 KOs) scored a fouth round stoppage of Jose Hilton Dos Santos (31-15-1, 20 KOs). Bolonti dropped Dos Santos in round one and got the stoppage with a series of unanswered right hands in the fourth round. Bolonti retains his WBC Latino belt.

Former WBA light heavyweight champion Hugo Garay (34-7, 18 KOs) was surprisingly stopped in round five by Cesar Crenz (20-5, 13 Os). In his first bout since his unsuccessful WBO cruiserweight title challenge against Marco Huck in July, Garay was dropped by a right left combination in round five and got the stoppage with his followup barrage.


Source: fightnews.com

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