Last night in Madison Square Garden,
the place where Miguel Cotto (33-1-27 KOs) calls his home away from home took
on highly rated but over matched Michael Jennings (34-2-16 KOs). Jennings
could not keep Cotto away as he put pressure from the opening bell. As the
fight went on Cotto got closer and closer. Until the 4th round when
Jennings went down twice from blows to his body. Cotto continued to punish
Jennings dropping him again on the 5th round. As he returned to his
feet the referee had enough, waving it off at 2:36 of the 5th
round. Cotto wins the vacant WBO welterweight title with this win.
In co-feature bout undefeated Irish
John Duddy (26-0-17 KOs) took on Matt Vanda. A fight that lacked much action
Vanda (39-9-22 KOs) decided to step it up on the 10th and final
round. Hitting Duddy right hands and left hooks seeming to hurt him. It was a
little too late. Duddy wins unanimous 99-91, 99-1, 97-93.
Matt Korobov (4-0-4 KOs) knocks out
Cory Jones (4-5-1 KOs) cold with a chopping right hand at the very end of the
bout, with one second remaining of the 4th round.
Pawel Wolak (23-1-16 KOs) destroyed
Norberto Bravo (27-17-3-15 KOs), from the Contender show. Ref halted the
action at 1:33 of the first.
In the upset of the evening, unbeaten
Maureen Shea (13-1, 7 KOs) was TKO'd by Kina Malpartida (9-3, 2 KOs). Maureen
started out strong knocking Maplartida down in the first round. Kina slowly
rallied back event hurting Shea stopping her in the tenth and final round.