Vincent Arroyo continued his impressive run as he scored a ten round unanimous decision over Hector Sanchez in a Welterweight bout at the Grand Hinckley Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota.
It was the taller Sanchez who controlled the action over the first third of the fight as he used his range and countered well with the right hand. Arroyo was cut around the left eye in round one. Sanchez rocked Arroyo in round two from long right. Arroyo started landing some good power punches in the middle rounds and he was pulling even on the cards.
Arroyo was very effective in round five with his left hook and picked up the momentum as they came towards the late rounds. Arroyo had Sanchez in big trouble in round eight has he landed a perfect left hook that buckled Sanchez to the ropes. Arroyo jumped on Sanchez and landed a flurry of punches but not the one big shot that would have ended things.
The two slugged down the stretch in what seemed to be a close fight but two of the three judges disagreed as the voted for Arroyo by a wide 98-92 scores while a third judge was closer to the consensus 96-94.
Arroyo is now 12-1. Sanchez, 143 lbs of San Cruz, PR is now 19-2.
World ranked Lateef Kayode hung to score a ten round unanimous decision over Felix Cora Jr. in a Cruiserweight bout.
Kayode landed the harder shots over the first half of the fights as he got through with his vaunted right hand. He started working the body with the right hand. Cora suffered a cut from a but over his left eye.
Cora finally got started in the ninth round by landing multi punch combination’s that seemed to bother Kayode and even backed him off. With Cora having a solid round ten, Kayode landed his third low blow and was docked a point by referee Steve Smoger.
It was too little too late as Kayode, 198 lbs of Lagos, Nigeria won by scores of 98-92;97-92 and 96-93 to remain perfect at 18-0. Cora, 198 lbs of Galvastan, TX is now 22-6-2.
