In what is considered an upset, Carlos Molina held the heralded an undefeated Erislandy Lara to a ten round draw in a Jr. Middleweight bout at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.
Molina pressed the action and gave Lara his toughest test to date and the score cards proved that. It took a late rally from Lara to even get a draw that had the pro-Molina crowd booing the decision that read 97-93 for Molina and 95-95 on two cards.
Molina of Chicago is now 17-4-2. Lara of Miami is 15-0-1.
Cuban Jr. Middleweight Yudel Jhonson stopped Richard Gutierrez in round seven of their scheduled ten round bout.
Jhonson rocked Gutierrez with a right hook and landed five more shots before referee Russell Mora stopped the fight maybe a little prematurely at 1:09 of round seven.
Jhonson, 153 lb of Miami is now 10-0 with seven knockouts. Gutierrez, 156 lbs of Cartegena, Colombia is now 26-6-1.
Yunier Dorticos kept his perfect knockout streak intact as he stopped Jose Luis Herrera in round two of a scheduled six round Cruiserweight bout.
Dorticos dropped Herrera in round and a follow up flurry made referee Tony Weeks stop the bout at 2:36 of round two.
Dorticos, 199 lbs of Miami is now 12-0 with twelve knockouts. Herrera, 202 lbs of Colombia is now 16-11.
