ARMANDO MARTINEZ RABI KNOCKS OUT ALBEIRO PAREDES IN SECOND ROUND OF MAIN EVENT OF FISTS OF FURY 7 AT SEMINOLE HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO HOLLYWOOD
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 28 Jul 2025
Friday, July 25, 2025 – Hollywood, FL – Kris Lawrence and The Heavyweight Factory presented “Fists of Fury 7” on Friday night, as WBA #5-ranked lightweight Armando Martinez Rabi (16-0, 15 KOs) successfully defended his WBA Continental Americas Gold Lightweight Championship with a second-round knockout over Albeiro Paredes (14-1, 12 KOs) of Sincelejo, Colombia in the 10-round main event from Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in Hollywood, FL.
After studying Paredes for a round, Martinez Rabi stepped up his attack in the second and landed a devastating right hand around the left glove that dropped Paredes for Referee Frank Gentile’s full 10 count at 1:09.
With WBA Light Welterweight Champion Rolly Romero watching ringside, Martinez Rabi showed why is on the verge of fighting for a world championship with this short but impressive display of raw punching power.
“It was a long camp, so I studied him well,” said Martinez Rabi, post-fight. “In the first round I came out to see what he had. In the second round, I wanted to show some of my stuff and the knockout came. I want a guy with a world title belt next. Any of the big names in my division.”
In the six-round co-featured bout, super middleweight southpaw prospect Ronny “King” Alvarez (3-0, 3 KOs) of Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, impressively knocked out Vega Baja, Puerto Rico’s formerly undefeated Carlos Colon (1-1) in two rounds.
After a carefully fought opening round, 21-year-old Alvarez stunned Colon with three consecutive snapping right hooks and then dropped him hard with another right hook seconds later. Referee Samuel Burgos started a count, then waved it off, as Colon was in no shape to continue. Impressive showing for the former amateur junior world champion Alvarez. The official time was 36 seconds of the second.
Arlington, Virginia’s Mike “The Six Million Dollar Man” Austin (1-0) had a successful pro debut by scoring a four-round unanimous decision over Alex Ochoa (1-1) of Lubbock, Texas. The two lightweights went to war in this exciting slugfest. The shorter, but faster Ochoa took the first round with his rapid-fire combinations. Finding his timing in the second, Austin appeared to hurt Ochoa with a left hook near the end of the round and landed several strong follow-ups before the bell. Showing no ill effects, Ochoa landed a number of his own haymakers in a toe-to-toe round three. To the delight of the crowd, the two hungry newcomers continued their warfare in the fourth round with each having his moments. Austin took the nod by three identical scores of 39-37 in a fight that could have gone either way.
Nestor Santana (3-0, 2 KOS) of Hialeah, Florida, won his four-round battle of undefeated 2-0 heavyweights by outworking and out-landing Brazil’s Julio Dos Santos (2-1, 2 KOs). A tugboat-sized heavyweight with battleship-sized lungs, the shorter and heavier Santana was able to land the harder and more effective punches. Dos Santos gave a solid effort but was no match for his Cuban windmill opponent’s brawling and entertaining style. The scores were 40-36, 40-36 and 39-37.
Undefeated welterweight prospect Montaser “The Boy King” Aboughaly (6-0, 2 KOs) of Miami won an entertaining six-round unanimous decision over durable Mexican veteran Luis May (22-21-1, 8 KOs) of Cancun. The more active Aboughaly deserved the nod, finding particular success with his uppercut. More than a professional survivor, however, May came to fight and kept it interesting throughout by using elusive head movement and jumping in unexpectedly with his own combinations. In a good learning fight for a young up-and-comer, Aboughaly took it by scores of 59-54, 59-54, and 58-55.
Knockout punching Lorenzo “Giant Killer” Medina (13-0, 11 KOs) of Hollywood, Florida, destroyed opponent Francisco Cordero (47-24, 36 KOS) of Barranquilla, Colombia, in their six-round heavyweight bout. Medina’s first meaningful punch, a right to the head, dropped Cordero for the full count at :55 seconds of the first.
Sebastian Santana (2-0, 1 KO) of Miami made quick work of hometown fighter Ivan Palacios (0-2). In the opening seconds of their featherweight four-rounder, the much taller Santana landed a left hook to the body that hurt Palacios. Santana then finished him against the ropes with another left hook to the liver for the knockout at 1:04 of the first.
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