Denver Cuello from Philippines, demonstrated his power sending twice to the canvas to WBC 1 ranked in straw weight list, mexican Ganigan Lopez, and finally put out of action in less than six minutes. The Asian boxer power put Lopez out of action, one minute before the second assault ended. Two left uppercuts and a long right hand sent the Mexican to the canvas bad. Referee Frank Garza applied the protection account and after ten seconds Lopez could not get up, the knockout was at 2 minutes 37 seconds of the second round. With this result, Denver Cuello (29-4, 14 KOs) won the right to challenge Japan’s Kazuto Ioka for the WBC strawweight world title. And Ganigan Lopez fell to 28-5, 13 ko’s.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
