It’s off to a great start. Raul Martinez went up in class to super bantamweight, and defeated Andres Ledesma, winning with an impressive 8th round (scheduled for knockout. Martinez showed much better technique, and a lot more power, knocking Martinez down twice in the 3rd.




Ledesma acquitted himself well, though, landing several good combinations. One of Ledesma’s punches opened a cut that probably would have stopped the fight were it not for masterful work by Martinez’s corner. Ledesma is certainly no first-tier fighter, but he’s no tomato can, either.




The second bout, between undefeated welterweight prospect Joel Jair Julio and Robert “The Doctor” Kamya, has been anticipated as a sure-fire knockout. Julio has won the vast majority of his fights with early knockouts, and Kamya’s career has been less than stellar. Though he’s won his last few fights, Kamya has been viewed largely (and accurately, imho) as cannon-fodder for Julio’s statistic-generating machine.




In the first round, Julio rocked Kamya with a right-handed counter-punch that almost spun Kamya around, and though Kamya rose to fight back, Julio showed himself to be the better, stronger, and more disciplined fighter, knocking Kamya into semi-consciousness at 1:32 of round 3. The early speculation is that Kamya suffered a broken jaw from the powerful left hook that essentially ended the fight. There were a few lighter punches before Kamya fell, but the left hook removed all signs of resistance from Kamya.




With it’s practice of matching up largely unknown prospects, ShoBox takes a chance at having laughable, bad, fights. Tonight’s first fight was very good, and the second was an impressive rout. If you have Showtime, it was free, and well worth the price.




I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s Showtime match-ups, featuring Mormeck v Bell and Judah v Baldomir.