Manuel Flores (left) lands a left hand on Victor Olivo en path to a 1st spherical knockout on Oct. 24 at Fantasy Springs Resort On line casino in Indio, California. Picture credit score: Cris Esqueda, Golden Boy Promotions
It was one other early night time on the workplace for Manuel Flores.
The resurgent bantamweight prospect picked up his fourth consecutive early knockout. Flores halted Victor Olivo at 1:50 of the primary spherical Thursday at Fantasy Springs Resort On line casino in Indio, California.
The Golden Boy on DAZN Combat Night time most important even noticed Flores instantly go to work. Olivo by no means had time to get into first gear and was rapidly despatched to the canvas courtesy of a physique shot. Referee Thomas Taylor issued the total ten depend as Olivo was unable to proceed.
Flores (19-1, 15 knockouts) has now stopped every of his final 4 opponents. The earlier trio all occurred within the second spherical for the 26-year-old from close by Coachella.
“I’m feeling good,” stated Flores. “It was just one spherical, so I really feel good, I can go once more. I give myself a B at this time, I ought to have stopped him earlier.”
Olivo fell to 21-5-1 (9 KOs) with the defeat.
Flores’ lone defeat got here in a ten-round determination to Walter Santibanes (12-3, 2 KOs) final June 8 on this very venue. ‘Gucci Manny’ has fought right here seven instances and quickly emerged as a hometown favourite.
The identical will be stated for Grant Flores, Manny’s youthful cousin. All seven of his professional bouts have been held right here, together with a six-round digital shutout of Puerto Rico’s Luis Ramos, 7-5-1 (7 KOs) of their junior middleweight warmth.
Scores had been 60-53, 60-53 and 59-54 for Flores (7-0, 5 KOs), who went the gap for simply the second time.
Unbeaten featherweight Jose ‘Tito’ Sanchez remained good with an eighth-round knockout of Mexico’s Edwin Palomares.
The co-feature bout was entertaining all through. Palomares (18-6-3, 9 KOs) took management early earlier than Sanchez (14-0, 8 KOs) surged forward.
A volley of energy pictures, ignited by a proper hand upstairs, floored Palomares within the eighth. It was sufficient to cease the combat at 0:53 of the eighth spherical.
Sanchez, a 24-year-old from Cathedral Metropolis, California, fought and gained for the third straight time at Fantasy Springs.
