Omar Salcido TKO8 Chris Colbert... Last night in Plant City, Florida, the career of former contender Chris Colbert took a huge hit, as his corner stopped his lightweight fight against Omar Salcido in the eighth round. The Mexican-born Salcido is now 20-1, with this being the biggest win of his career. Colbert had been running around the ring, trying to avoid any exchanges with Salcido, and his chief second warned him after round seven that he was thinking about stopping the fight unless Colbert turned it around. Colbert continued taking punches in round eight with little to no return fire, and true to his word, the cornerman waved the towel to call off the bout.  Colbert (17-3) came into the fight looking to revive his career but now has lost three out of his last four fights. In December, he was knocked out by Jose Valenzuela in the sixth round of their rematch. Nine months prior, Colbert had scored a controversial unanimous decision against Valenzuela, which led to the sequel.

 

Tsendbaatar Erdenebat W10 Frency Fortunato... In the chief supporting bout, 2016 Mongolian Olympian Tsendbaatar Erdenebat improved to 11-0, breezing to a unanimous decision against Frency Fortunato (15-2) in a ten-round junior lightweight contest. Erdenebat came forward the whole time and caused considerable facial swelling to the face of the brave Fortunato. Official scores were 100-90 and 98-92 (twice).