Giovanni Cabrera Mioletti W10 Luis Porozo ... In the opening bout of the ShoBox telecast, Tacoma fan-favorite Giovanni Cabrera Mioletti (17-0, 7 KOs) scored a unanimous ten-round decision against former Ecuadorian Olympian Luis Porozo (14-1, 7 KOs). The scores in the super featherweight bout were 98-92 (twice) and 97-93. The 24-year-old southpaw Cabrera Mioletti got off to a slow start, throwing only 33 punches in the first round as he looked tight and nervous in his national television debut and couldn’t find his rhythm against the free-swinging and awkward style of Porozo. But the resourceful Cabrera Mioletti came alive in the middle rounds as he began to control the bout and land shots that fazed the tiring Porozo, who had never been past the sixth round in his career.
“It took me a couple rounds to relax,” said Cabrera Mioletti, who was fighting in Tacoma for the 11th time in 17 career bouts. “My whole strategy was to stay relaxed, but in the first couple rounds, the cameras got to me a bit. But once I started getting my rhythm and working my jab, I started to take control.”
Porozo, a Brooklyn, N.Y., resident from Santa Domingo, Ecuador, became the 189th fighter to lose his unblemished record in the prospect-oriented ShoBox series.
In the seventh, Cabrera Mioletti found his range and distance and overpowered Porozo with combinations he had no answer for. “I didn’t feel his punches, but I felt his head,” said Cabrera Mioletti, who was born in Seattle but currently lives in Chicago. “That guy has a head like a rock. He butted me a bunch of times and that’s what cut open my eye, but I don’t think about that I just focused on what I had to do. I started to hear him breathing heavily when I’d hit him to the body, not even that hard and that’s when I knew he wanted to fight a much slower pace. Once my jab started landing a lot, I knew I had him.”
Porozo said he simply ran out of gas in the later stages of the fight. “I lost because I moved too much and didn’t throw enough punches,” said Porozo, who had more than 500 amateur fights. “I give him credit. I felt some of his power shots. I was winning for the first five rounds. After that I got tired. I feel bad. I’m very disappointed. I could have done so much more.”
Friday’s fights were presented by Salita Promotions and Brian Halquist Productions. The full telecast will replay on Monday, July 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SowtimeExtreme. source: showtime
