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Telefutura topped its Friday noche card
with the return of past jr. middle champion Kassim Ouma from
10 month ring hiatus following decision loss to Jermain Taylor
on December 2006 - selected pigeon one Saul Roman who arrived
on TKO losses to no-names Dan Stanisnljevic and Sergio
Martinez.
While my scorekeeping had Ouma the
decision winner 8-2 under round by round method and 98-91 in
points, the numbers that count had it Roman via split decision
97-92, 96-93, 94-95.
It was that kind of fight - the Ouma
rust was visible early on and continued pretty much over the
full ten rounds - still, it was Ouma the more accurate with
pitter-patter scoring at close quarters and Roman with
sporadic success that caught the eye but did zero damage.
With super hack referee Dr. James Jen
Kim out of position during stanza eight action a Ouma low blow
went unnoticed - begins the count - and lo and behold, Roman
beats the count - only damage was the round going to Ouma
10-8.
Several camera replays showed old man
Kim missing the call - however, the unwritten rule of
officials to cover these happenings has always been “Call what
you see and not what you think may have happened.”
Regardless, it would have no bearing on
the end result.
Post Scripts: Saul Roman (24-4, 20 KOs)
~ off last nite’s performance the neat resumé should include
lyrics to old song that went “all that glitters isn’t gold.”
Outweighing this win, is Boxrec.com amber light showing the
TKO loss to Dan Stanisjevic had the Slovak entering at 8-12-2,
4 KO’s and a six straight losing streak. Enuf said.
Kassim
Ouma (25-4-1, 15 KOs) ~ chin remains strong - was always a
career poor man’s Winky Wright. Short on clout but a busy
rat-tat-tat in style from start to finish. Had him winning but
far from impressive, had himself a gimme and let it get
away.
Referee Dr. James Jen Kim ~ send this
hack out to pasture - a clown in need of a circus.
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Lightweight semi-final had Jose “Pit
Bull” Diaz ( 14-0, 4 KOs) in with Miguel Munguia ( 15-7-1, 13
KOs) - the pit bull a 21 year old younger brother of Juan
“Baby Bull’ Diaz of multiple lightweight title fame.
So much for blood lines - the “Pit Bull”
opened in style as he brings it to Munguia over the early
rounds - problem is severe shortage in power department - hint
of bad news on doorstep is ludicrous point deduction for
losing mouthpiece in stanza four.
Later, after snatching stanzas six and seven the kid is warned
for low blows - Mungia then grabs numbers 8-9-10 on my
scandal sheet - and a 5-4-1 edge in rounds.
Official scorecards had it unanimous for
Munguia 97-92, 96-93, 95-94 - my unofficial agreed Munguia
96-94 in points and 5-4-1 in rounds.
Closing comments: Miguel Munguia
(16-7-1, 13 KOs) ~ age 25 the biggest plus - at this point
shows little skills - helping the cause in this one was Diaz
seemingly running out of gas over “championship” rounds of
8-9-10.
Jose “Pit Bull” Diaz (14-1, 4
KOs) ~ peek-a-boo style behind the jab all fine and dandy -
lack of combination punching not so nice. Offense all wild
winging from both sides. Big bro’ Juan needs helping the
younger sibling in technique department.
Referee
Ray Corona ~ another imposter - all show - deducts Diaz for
losing mouthpiece - this fool another of the today third man
in charge generation without a clue. The relatively new rule
of deducting points for “spitting” out mouthpiece makes sense
if is intentional. If lost or dislodged due to incoming mail
it is clearly inadvertent - in the Diaz debit the lost mouth
protector occurred with the kid on the attack and made no
sense to intentionally lose the piece. Bad call.
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