WBF International Super Flyweight champion Daryl Basadre
Both boxers started the fight calmly, feeling each other out in the first round, but in round two Basadre started fast and quickly floored his more experienced foe.
Alcos beat the count of referee Ramuel Ovalo, but Basadre followed up and soon after scored a second knock-down.
The game Alcos, a former Asian champion at Light Flyweight, also got up from his second trip to the canvas, but it was clear that it would only be a matter of time before the ferocious Basadre got to him again.
When Basadre jumped on Alcos and knocked him down again, the corner of Alcos had seen enough and wisely saved their man from further punishment.
With this highly impressive performance, “Flash” Basadre improved his professional record to 11-1-1 (8), while battle-tested veteran Alcos (29) was stopped for only the second time in his career and drops to 22-14 (4).
The fight, billed as Southside Beatdown, was promoted by JM Promotions and Sanman Promotions, in cooperation with Mayor Ronnel Rivera and councilor Brix Tan.
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.
