Nietes ends long hiatus with a decision win

By Scott Shaffer

03/04/2021

Nietes ends long hiatus with a decision win

Donnie Nietes W10 Pablo Carillo... Former four-division champion Donnie Nietes of the Phillipines, now 38 years old, returned from two-plus years of inactivity to defeat Pablo Carillo of Colombia by unanimous ten-round decision. Official scores were 96-95. 98-92 and 99-91, all for Nietes. While the ESPN crew saw it as a decisive win for Nietes, Compubox had the punches landed total close, with Nietes favored by only 97-81. Nietes, who vacated the WBO 115-pound title soon after defeating Kazuto Ioka on Deceber 31, 2018, hadn't fought since but today upped his record to 43-1-5. Carillo is now 25-8-1, and has only been stopped once-- by former 105-pound unified champ Francisco Rodriguez. source: espn