PALACIOS WINS WBA INTERIM MINIMUM WEIGHT TITLE
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 23 May 2011
WBC minimum weight interim champion Juan ?Exterminador? Placios of Nicaragua has stunned WBA Interim world champion Samuel Gutierrez of Mexico with a unanimous twelve round decision in Puebla, Mexico before a crowd of some 5,000 fans.
All three judges scored the fight for the 30 year old Palacios.
Ignacio Robles and Tom Miller had Palacios the winner 115-113 while Sergio Caiz scored it by a wider 116-112 spread for the Nicaraguan.
With the win Palacios improves to 28-3 with 21 knockouts while Gutierrez drops to 28-6-2 with 19 knockouts.
Palacios won the WBC Interim title with a 10th round TKO over Omar Soto on August 2, 2008. He then defeated Teruo Misawa of Japan in his first defense of the interim title scoring a 7th round TKO on November 7, 2008.
Then, in another defense of the so-called interim title Palaciois scored a 10th round TKO over Erik Ramirez on June 13, 2009.
Ramirez was the same fighter who was dropped by WBO minimum weight champion Donnie Nietes in rounds 1, 5, 9 and 12 in a title fight in Ramirez? hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico with Nietes scoring a comfortable decision on February 28, 2009.
Nietes has relinquished his title and is set to face champion Ramon Hirales Garcia in a battle for the WBO light flyweight title which is tentatively scheduled for July 30.
In a post fight interview Palacios said ?I knew I could win in Mexico. Sammyis a great champion but my hunger and my physical condition made the difference.?
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