Paul “The Punisher” Williams came out banged up plus loses his WBO Welterweight
belt to Puerto Rican Carlos Quintana on Saturday night in Temecula, Cal at
Pechanga Resort & Casino in front of a near sell-out house.
Williams [33-1, 24 KO’s] making his first title defends against Quintana [25-1,
19 KO’s] was in shape for the fight, but Quintana had his own fight plan. He
quickly landed a few good solid shots to put Williams, the champion on alert that
he is hungry for the title.
Williams, with his height and reach advantage, kept on walking into
Quintana’s left hand punches. In the third round Quintana was working the body
more, occasionally going upstairs to the head of Williams, who by this time
was fighting from the outside trying to land his long range punches.
By the fifth round, 'Williams the Punisher' was getting a taste of his own
medicine… punishment that is as the shorter Quintana kept putting up a fight.
Midway past the halfway mark, Williams started to win some of the rounds as he
became more aggressive.
Both boxers were going toe to toe from round to round exciting the crowd. In the
eight round Williams suffered a cut on his upper left side eye. The next round a
cut on his right side eye opened up. Now Williams is more set in trying
to finish the fight but Quintana just hangs in there absorbing the punches as
well as counterpunching back.
Bleeding on both sides of the eyes in the eleventh round, Williams fought his
heart out as the challenger Quintana slugged out with the champ to the final
round. In the end the judges scored it for Quintana, who wins a unanimous decision
to become the new WBO welterweight champion.
Berto TKO Trabant in six
The Co-Main Event was a 10-round welterweight bout between Andre Berto [21-0, 17
KO’s] versus Michael Trabant [43-3-1, 19 KO’s]
Berto began taking control of the fight early with his speed and punches.
Trabant with his guard up protecting his face had limited possibility to punch
making hard for him to land punches. The third round Trabant who show no action
started showing sign of life by throwing punches. The faster to the draw was
Berto outgunning him to the punches hurting Trabant toward the end of the round.
As the fight went on you could clearly see Berto was out punching, out boxing,
and out styling Trabant and at the time its seems like a sparring session rather
than an actual fight. The six round is where Berto picked up the pace, landing a
flurry of punches stunning Trabant. Once the round ended Trabant’s corner
advised the referee that their fighter could not continue. Berto wins a 6th
round TKO.
Lowther unanimous against Lopez
This 6-round junior welterweight bout between Omri Lowther [10-1, 8 KO’s] and
Braulio Lopez [6-7-1, 2 KO’s] was an action pack from the start. Lopez proved he
is a much better fighter than his record showed. He threw the first punch but
Lowther read his opponent’s mind in no time and applied his boxing skills,
hurting Lopez in the process of the first round with his speeding punches. Lopez
quickly recovers to survive the round then settles down in the following round.
A cut opened up on Lopez’s right upper eye in the third round and his punches
were landing with more accuracy. Lowther fighting more cautious from the outside
with his speeding punches landing more as well.
What seemed to be an easy fight for Lowther turned out to be a brawl fight that
went the distance. A low blow to Lopez in the fourth round allowed him a few
moments of rest by the referee but the toe to toe battle soon continued. In the
end this two fighters put on a great fight.
The three judges scored it [59-55] for Lowther winning a unanimous decision. I
scored it [58-56] for Lowther.
Arreola takes care of Courser
In a special attraction bout local favorite fighter from Riverside, CA
undefeated Cristobal “The Nightmares” Arreola [21-0, 21 KO’s] faced Cliff
Courser [26-15-2, 14KO’s] for a 10-rounder in the heavyweight bout.
Arreola started to exchange early as Courser moved back managing to brush off
the fire of punches coming at him. Courser is hurt but stands in front of
Arreola only to receive more powerful punches; then Courser decides to take a
knee that’s when referee halted the bout. Arreola improved to 21-0 winning a
first round TKO.
Biggs Jr. KO Mullis in three
Raymond Biggs Jr. [7-0, 6 KO’s] faced Bryan Mullis [4-3-1, 2 KO’s] in a
4-rounder junior middleweight bout.
In a fast active fight, Mullis had landed several good punches when he was
dropped by a clean punch by Biggs in the first round. Mulls moving forward with
limited aggression in the third round, then Biggs let him have it with a solid
hard punch sending him to the canvas. Mulls gets up but referee halts the bout.
Biggs remains undefeated winning a 3rd round Knock out.
The fights were promoted by Goossen Tutor promotions, and HBO Boxing After
Dark.
2-16-2008
