Francisco Daniel Veron W10 Roiman Villa... Fighting in his adopted hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Francisco Daniel Veron (17-1-1, 10 KOs) served as the matador to the hard-punching Venezuelan, Roiman Villa (27-4, 25 KOs). The Argentine-born Veron dropped Villa in round nine en route to a ten-round shutout on ProBoxTV’s Friday Night Fights at the War Memorial Auditorium. Showing clear signs of being ready for the division’s upper echelon, Veron frustrated and dominated Villa in every round with non-stop punching and moving. Veron set a blistering pace from the outset of the fight and even fought through a badly bleeding lip from some temporary Villa effectiveness in round four to control the iron-fisted South American the rest of the way with a busy jab and debilitating punches with both hands. The scores were an academic 100-89.
Tsendy Erdenebat W10 Abraham Montoya... Mongolian junior lightweight Tsendy Erdenebat (13-0, 6 KOs), now fighting out of Paramount, California, won an entertaining ten-round unanimous decision over ironman Abraham Montoya (23-6-1, 14 KOs) of Baja California, Mexico. A two-time Mongolian Olympian, Erdenebat came out firing in the opening two rounds, landing several big punches seemingly at will on the awkward, but impervious-to-pain Montoya. A proven veteran with several noteworthy victories, Montoya turned up the pressure starting in the third round, landing strong lefts and rights to the head and body of a puzzled Erdenebat. What followed was an entertaining battle between Erdenebat, the faster, sharper puncher, loading up on highlight-reel haymakers to the chin of the relentless Montoya, while Montoya scored with many of his own clubbing shots, and never let up on the nonstop pressure. Showing his conditioning, Erdenebat turned up the volume in round ten and was finally able to back Montoya up. Fighting like your drunk uncle playing video boxing at Christmas, Montoya kept the fight close and entertaining, while Erdenebat showed world-class mettle in making the adjustments to pull out a tough fight. The scores were 96-94 and 99-91 (twice). Both men surely gained fans in this fun affair.


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Cleveland light heavyweight Dante Benjamin (13-0-1, 9 KOs) won a carefully fought eight-round unanimous decision over Alabama’s Money Powell IV (13-3, 8 KOs). With both fighters having strong amateur pedigrees, the two skilled technicians fought a tactical battle that made the rounds tough to score. In the end, Benjamin occasionally landing eye-catching right hands made the difference. The scores were 77-75 (twice) and 79-73.
In a ProBoxTV Future Stars Series featherweight fight, Cheverly, Maryland’s “The Franchise” Francois Scarboro Jr (12-0, 9 KOs) scored an explosive one-punch, first-round knockout over Las Piedras, Puerto Rico slugger Onyx “Gallito” Sanchez (8-1-1, 8 KOs). The taller Sanchez landed an uppercut early but went down hard from Scarboro Jr’s first big punch, an overhand right to the temple against the ropes. Sanchez somehow was able to rise after looking completely knocked out on the way down, but Referee Tyrone Parker Jr. judged him unable to continue at the 2:00 mark of the opening round “I feel great,” said a happy Scarboro Jr, post-fight. “The game plan was to come out and box, unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to do that. I read a lot of comments of people talking trash and saying my athletic ability gets me over sometimes, so I wanted to prove I could box all eight rounds. But I guess we’re never going to see that because we’re going to 10 rounds next. The best is yet to come. I’d fight every month if I could.”
In the broadcast’s opening bout, Hawaiian junior middleweight KJ “K9” Waialae (3-0, 2 KOs) outclassed Rashad Bowens (1-2, 1 KO) of Virginia Beach, battering him mercilessly to the head and, especially, the body. Waialae outlanded the brave but outgunned Bowens 23-5 to the body, which eventually convinced Referee Samuel Burgos to wave it off for a TKO victory at 2:02 of round three.
