Tonight on the “Latino Evening” card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oscar Collazo placed on an excellent, virtually flawless show as he knocked out long-reigning rival minimumweight champ Knockout CP Freshmart within the seventh spherical. The 2 got here collectively in a unification showdown, with Puerto Rico’s Collazo defending his WBO title and Thailand’s Freshmart defending the WBA belt he had held for eight years.
Southpaw Collazo, the youthful man by seven years at age 27, dropped Freshmart with a proper hook to the pinnacle in spherical six, and he then dropped Freshmart twice extra within the following spherical to get the stoppage win. Time was 1:29 of the seventh, and Collazo is now 11-0(8). Freshmart misplaced each his belt and his unbeaten document, falling to 25-1(9).
It was a slow-starting combat, however as soon as Collazo received into his groove, he turned magnificent. Freshmart had some flashing moments of success, and his physique work was fairly notable. However Collazo was far sharper, he was far busier, and he was the ring normal in there. The motion actually received going across the fourth and fifth rounds, and Collazo was clearly on the lookout for the KO he had predicted he would get.
Collazo broke via together with his proper hand within the sixth, his hook chopping Freshmart down. To his credit score, Freshmart fired again with energy pictures after getting up. However Collazo had his man now and he knew it. Dropping Freshmart with one other onerous proper to the pinnacle within the seventh, Collazo ended issues with a left uppercut to the chin that was adopted by a proper to the physique. Freshmart had the combat completely knocked out of him.
Collazo, guided by the good Miguel Cotto, who climbed into the ring to congratulate his countryman, stated he has proven he’s one of the best 105 pound fighter on this planet proper now. He might be. In stopping the long-reigning, by no means actually beforehand harm Freshmart in type the way in which he did, with Collazo maybe profitable each spherical alongside the way in which, Collazo, now the WBO, WBA and Ring Journal champion, certain made some massive, massive assertion.
