![]() ![]() He has fought world title challenger Felix Alvarado three times and lost to another title challenger in Felipe Orucuta. The Nicaraguan challenged for the WBC light flyweight title in 2013 losing on points to Adrian Hernandez. ![]() He holds on to his No 2 slot with the WBO but this was a much tougher test than was good for him and the WBO champion Naoya Inoue is a few levels at least above Cardoza. Conlan, 30, wins the vacant WBC International title. It was such a close fight that I have no argument with any of those scores. The judge’s scores were 115-113 and 114-113 for Conlan and 115-112 for Cardoza. The last round did not produce any fireworks and it could have gone to either fighter but if pushed I would have given it to Cardoza which in my book would have seen him one point ahead. Conlan was boxing well but the blood running down from the cut was getting into his eye which made him more cautious and Cardoza landed the better punches. At the end of the round Conlan was showing a cut on the eyelid of his left eye. ![]() Cardoza turned up the heat again in the tenth taking the round by just chasing Conlan down and throwing a barrage of punches. Strangely in the ninth Cardoza did not try to capitalise on his success and allowed Conlan to dictate from the ring centre and take the round with some clever boxing. ![]() He was up at seven and when the action resumed tired to fight back but was shipping some more punches and was in trouble at the bell. He was landing well early and then late in the round he forced Conlan back with a series of punches to the head and the Belfast man slumped down against the ropes. Both had good spells in the seventh with Conlan piercing the Nicaraguan’s guard with jabs and Cardoza pressing hard and scoring to the body and just edging it. Cardoza got back into the fight in the sixth forcing the pace and getting through with rights. Conlan boxed beautifully in the fifth popping out the jab slipping Cardoza’s wild punches and scoring with counter lefts. He was getting home with his jab and landing clubbing rights and left hooks to the body. Those rounds had been close but Cardoza dominated the fourth. He had some success late in the round but with Conlan countering well. Conlan continued to box behind the jab in the third with Cardoza stepping up the pace and throwing lots of leather. Cardoza was forcing the action and throwing more punches but being a bit wild and finding Conlan a difficult target. Conlan made good use of his jab and landed some overhand rights. The first two rounds showed that this was going to be a fast-paced open fight. Super Light: Phil Sutcliffe Jr (13-1) W TKO 4 Miguel Aguilar (11-32-1).Ĭonlan gets split decision in a thrilling but tough fight with Cardoza. Bantam: Paddy Barnes (2-0) W PTS 6 Adrian Garzon (10-22). Super Light: Marco McCullough (17-3) W PTS 8 Leonel Hernandez (10-19-2). Heavy: Con Sheehan (5-0) W PTS 8 Ferenc Zsalek (19-56-6). Super Light: Tyrone McKenna (13-0-1) W TKO 6 Jake Hanney (5-1). Heavy: Sean Turner (10-0.1ND) W KO 2 Igor Mihaljevic (4-8,1ND). Super Feather: James Tennyson (18-2) W TKO 6 Declan Geraghty (14-2). One to watch: Ghanaian Duke Micah with Mexican Joselito Velasquez and Leon Bauer making progressīelfast, Northern Ireland: Super Fly: Jamie Conlan (19-0) W PTS 12 Yader Cardoza (22-11-1). Upset of the week: Most fight went to the favourites so I guess Filipino Romero Duno’s win over Christian Gonzalez was as close to an upset as we got. Punch of the week: Lemieux’s left hook that flattened Stevens Yader Cardozaįighter of the week: Has to be David Lemieux who electrified the crowd in his destruction of Curtis Stevens Hirofumi Mukai just a war with an honourable mention to Jamie Conlan vs. ![]()
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