The third time was a appeal for Nazarena Romero.
A dominant exhibiting by the handed Argentinean resulted in her first title win. Romero powered her solution to a tenth spherical stoppage of Paulette Valenzuela Cuesta of their vacant WBA 122-pound title battle.
Sufficient energy photographs pressured the stoppage at 0:18 of the tenth spherical Saturday at On line casino Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Romero instantly broke into her customary in-ring dancing, with hugs throughout to have a good time the event.
Romero (14-0-2, 8 knockouts) fought to back-to-back attracts versus Mayerlin Rivas and Erika Cruz in separate WBA title bids. Cruz was stripped of the belt after their Could 11 bout because of a optimistic drug take a look at for Stanozolol. The WBA initially ordered a Romero-Rivas rematch however it was Valenzuela Cuesta who entered the equation for the vacant title battle.
Fittingly, it landed on the two-day annual WBA KO Medication Pageant.
Romero by no means relented of their scheduled ten-round bout. Her unimaginable engine and energy photographs have been an excessive amount of for Valenzuela Cuesta to climate. Romero launched energy photographs down the center and from extensive angles all through their battle.
The wear and tear and tear was evident as Valenzuela Cuesta’s left eye was reduce and bruised. Romero additionally didn’t pardon the physique. A left hook arrange a collection of proper arms alongside the ropes late in spherical eight.
Romero moved in to shut the present within the ninth. A left hook to the physique left Valenzuela Cuesta in extreme ache simply earlier than the bell however made it out of the spherical.
Her luck would run out the second the bell sounded to start out the tenth and remaining spherical.
One other left hook downstairs pressured Valenzuela Cuesta’s again leg to kick out. She managed to remain on her ft however Romero instantly adopted up on the assault. A flurry alongside the ropes was sufficient to pressure referee Roberto Ramirez to cease the competition.
Valenzuela Cuesta (17-4, 4 KOs) is now 0-2 in main title fights, She beforehand suffered a choice defeat to Segolene Lefebvre of their Nov. 2021 WBO 122-pound title battle.
The celebration instantly started for the happy-go-lucky Romero. She danced to the tune of La Bouche’s “Be My Lover” blaring overhead because the belt was strapped round her waist.
Romero’s final 4 wins have all ended inside the gap, this marking her first past the fourth spherical.
The headlining act noticed Jose Aguero (12-0, 7 KOs) declare a fifth-round knockout of Jorge Luis Martinez (17-4-1, 11 KOs). A barrage of punches left Martinez defenseless to pressure the stoppage at 2:56 of spherical 5 of their regional junior light-weight title battle.
Additionally on the cardboard, Ruben Nestor Neri Muñoz (16-2, 12 KOs) picked up a career-best tenth-round knockout of unbeaten Chann Thonson. Muñoz floored Thonson (16-1, 13 KOs) twice within the ninth and compelled the stoppage at 0:35 of the tenth and remaining spherical of their light-weight contest.
Jaquan Carty (7-0, 5 KOs) outpointed native prospect Brian Matias Perez (5-1, 2 KOs). Scores have been 77-75, 77-75 and 79-73 for Carty, a Toronto-born middleweight based mostly in Atlanta
The present came about as a part of the WBA’s thirty first annual KO Medication pageant, an occasion which dates again to 1991 in Venezuela. The occasion is means to fight the flood of medicine and its affect on unsuspecting youth all through South America. Boxing grew to become part of this system in 1993.
