BARRERA WINS IN TERRIBLE MISMATCH IN CHINA
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 08 Nov 2008
Former five-time world champion Marco Antonio Barrera scored a 4th round TKO in a terrible mismatch against Sammy Ventura at the Sichuan stadium in Chengdu , China , Friday night.
In a fight telecast ?live? on the cable channel Solar Sports, respected television commentator Col. Bob Sheridan described the bout as ?a stay busy fight? for Barrera and noted that the Mexican legend was ?pulling his punches? in what looked more like a sparring session than an actual bout scheduled for ten rounds.
Barrera kept merely tapping Ventura with his punches in the opening round and the crowd was obviously not too pleased.
Towards the end of round two Barrera connected with his first hard punch and then threw some big body shots early in the third and staggered Ventura with a left hook to the head.
It was clear that Barrera could take Ventura out anytime he pleased and with a a hard shot to the body sent Ventura down for the first time in round three. Ventura got up at the count of four but was given a standing eight-count by referee Kenny Bayless and when Barrera dropped the badly overmatched Ventura for the second time with a flurry of punches, Bayless decided to call a halt.
The official time of the TKO was 1:01 of round four.
With the insignificant win Barrera who is aiming for a fourth world title improved to 64-6 with 43 knockouts while Ventura who suffered his eighth stoppage inside four rounds in his last eleven fights fell to 25-20 with 20 knockouts.
When www.insidesports.ph questioned the approval of such an obvious mismatch the WBC, noting the background of Ventura said in an email response that it "disclaims any responsibility regarding the fight" and noted that it was a Don King promotion and the WBC "had nothing to do with the Barrera-Ventura fight."
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