GOMEZ-TRINIDAD SUCCUMBS TO JAUREGUI'S POWER ON DE LA HOYA'S HBO LATINO SHOW

By Elisa Harrison

 


 
 

    

The Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles hosted Oscar de la Hoya's 'Boxeo de Oro' on HBO Latino this Thursday, June 19.

A lightweight battle broke out between undefeated Urbano Antillon and Ivan Valle. This was a give and take proposition throughout, an exciting see saw battle that saw both combatants give their all. However, in the 10th and last round Antillon slipped in his corner and was hit on top of the head while down by Valle.

Antillon was down for a few seconds and looked like he wasn't going to be able to continue. Eventually he did get up and came back with double fisted vengeance for the remainder of the round. The infraction cost Valle 2 points. In the end, the officials returned a unanimous decision for Urbano Antillon, 96-91, 97-90, 96-92.

Urbano, a native of Maywood, California, boosts his record to 10-0, 6 KOs, while Valle, who hails from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico drops to 10-9, 16 KOs.

The main event followed, and as a die hard Felix "Tito" Trinidad fan, I welcome every opportunity to see Tito back in the ring. "El gran campeón" was a proud member of the other Trinidad's entourage, WBA Fedelatin Lightweight titlist and cousin Juan "Golo" Gomez-Trinidad, who had a date with tough as nails Javier Jauregui, from Guadalajara, Mexico.

The bout was a twelve round WBA Lightweight title eliminator, and it proved to be a bad night for the man from Cupey Alto, Puerto Rico. Trinidad had a visible welt under his right eye coming into the fight, probably the result of heated sparring sessions. From the onset "Golo" seemed a bit sluggish, almost overwhelmed. He tasted Jauregui's power early on and went down in the second, third and fourth rounds, courtesy of vicious left hooks to the head.

The final fall in the fourth round came 44 seconds into the stanza, and Trinidad took two unanswered left hooks to the head that had him going down in scary fashion. He seemed totally incapable of holding, or even keeping up his hands to protect himself. This was definitely not the best of Gomez-Trinidad, and we hope that he can get himself back on track soon.

In classy fashion the Trinidads made no excuses for the devastating loss, and wished Jauregui all the best in his future endeavors. Jauregui, who claims to be inspired by the success of his friend and WBC 122 lbs. champion Oscar "Chololo" Larios, improves his record to 46-10-2, 33 KOs, while Trinidad drops to 23-3, 16 KOs. This is the Puerto Rican's first loss since having been knocked out by Johnny Walker in Miami in February 5, 1999.

Publicity genius Oscar de la Hoya announced during the proceedings that a press conference will take place this Saturday, June 21st at 12:30 PM in downtown Los Angeles. Based on unconfirmed reports and a brief interview with Marco Antonio Barrera it is expected that an announcement will be made regarding the signing of Barrera to a promotional contract with Golden Boy Promotions. The featherweight people's champion recently parted ways with his long time manager and promotional team.

6-19-2003


 



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