Nilo Guerrero Edges Mandeep Jangra In Battle Of Unbeaten Prospects

Nilo Guerrero took a serious step ahead towards contender standing.

Guerrero defeated Mandeep Jangra by majority choice Thursday evening at Legends On line casino Lodge in Toppenish, Washington. Choose Alan Krebs (95-95) scored the bout even. Vincent Santino (96-94) and Perla Rodriguez (98-92) had it for Guerrero in a conflict of unbeaten junior light-weight prospects.

With the win, Guerrero (10-0, 7 knockouts) gained a minor world title belt.

“I’m very grateful for the chance,” stated Guerrero, a Nicaraguan prospect based mostly in Coachella, California. “All of the sacrifice and all of the exhausting work was all price it. I’m now much more than ever motivated to return to work and attempt to be higher on daily basis.”

Guerrero was the more-effective fighter through the first half of the battle. The unbeaten 24-year outdated outboxed Jangra, diversified his offense and related with combos to the pinnacle and physique.

Sensing he was down on the scorecards, Jangra rallied over the last three rounds. He managed to win the tenth spherical on two of the three playing cards. Had he gained it on the Santino’s card, the bout would have resulted in a cut up choice draw.

As a substitute, Jangra—an India-bred boxer now based mostly in Florida—was compelled to style his first defeat. The Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions-represented 31-year outdated—who additionally trains with the Corridor of Fame boxer out of Pensacola—fell to 10-1 (7 KOs) with the setback.

In his earlier battle on June 15, Guerrero defeated Diuhl Olguin by unanimous choice. The win over Olguin passed off precisely 4 months after Guerrero knocked out Dan Hernandez within the opening spherical.

Guerrero is promoted by Toro Promotions and is managed by Vartan Torosyan.

Two fighters additionally skilled by Jones had been victorious.

Featherweight Dominique Roundtree of Augusta, Georgia defeated Roberto Cantu Pena by choice over six one-sided rounds. All three judges scored the bout 60-53 in favor of Roundtree, who improved to 10-0, 6 KOs.

Cantu Pena, initially from McAllen, Texas and now resides in Rio Bravo, Mexico, fell to 4-4, 3 KOs.

In junior middleweight motion, Keon Papillion (10-0-1, 7 KOs) of Lafayette, Louisiana stopped journeyman Rondale Hubbert (16-33-3, 10 KOs) of Duluth, Minnesota after two rounds.

Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has lined boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He will be reached at [email protected]