San Antonio City – Ramon Cardenas remembers being told the feeling of knockout. It feels like nothing is there. You just blinked, right on the canvas. Cardenas personally discovered what he was told. He also discovered that after that, he stood up and continued to fight.
“I fell down with my left hand. He came to me with the right hook, and I was thrown down for the first time in my career.
“This happened, I smiled at it and got up.”
Cardenas overcame his first knockout of his career, unanimously decided a firm Bryan Acosta in the main event of the Probox TV broadcast on Saturday in a unanimous decision at the Boeing Center at Tech Port. .
Two judges led Cardenas 95-94 in the 10-round youth-weighted competition, while third place won 97-92. The victory improved Cardenas’ record to 26-1 (14 KO), while Acosta lost for the first time, down to 20-1 (8 kos).
Cardenas fought again in his hometown of San Antonio after two consecutive battles in Florida, and he had a technical advantage early on to keep his tall opponents jabs, making Acosta is in balance. He made his first battle statement in the first round, shaking Acosta with a counterattack when he ran too far with the jab.
Although Acosta lost weight after the 126-pound fight, he showed aggressiveness in the round 2 but continued to eat the right-hand counter due to his troubles. Cardenas followed his coach Joel Diaz’s advice in round 3, keeping the level low and looking for the left hook of the left hook that worked hard to put the left hook on the floor superior. The three-round match in the bag looked like a physically stronger fighter, and he began to support Acosta in hopes of breaking the opponent.
Cardenas won the big punch, pushing Acosta onto the ropes, but he also gave Acosta his first chance to punch in the fight.
Perhaps realizing that Acosta is an undefeated but untested fighter from Hermosillo, Mexico, who fought more on him, Cardenas Boxing resumed in the fifth round. Cardenas made another important statement in round 6, with his harsh body opening his right hand upstairs, again suggesting that Acosta might be ready.
As Cardenas said, his boredom of monotony about the battle lost his focus and put down his guard.
Cardenas seemed more awkward than being injured when the hook fell off, but Acosta continued to be punished and kept the pressure on. Cardenas took more damage later in the later stages when the right hand was followed by the left hook to sway him. Instead of following the coach’s instructions, he fought according to his intuition, and the results were mixed.
After another round dominated by Acosta’s activity in the eighth event, Cardenas began finding a counter-attack with the left hooks in ninth and tenth place. By this point Cardenas spent most of his time looking for a big punch, while Acosta wanted to throw a combo.
The two traded to the bell, causing the crowds in San Antonio to roar.
Cardenas, 29, said he learned important lessons.
“It just shows that I don’t want to be lazy. I could have surpassed this guy, relaxed.
“Just tell me not to be reckless, listen to my coach, let my left hand lift and not be bored.”
Cardenas said he wanted to challenge the division’s top fighter jets if he had his own way – the undisputed champion Naoya Inoue. He said he wanted to keep busy opposition regardless of whether he could get the fight or not.
“I want to fight another top fighter,” Cardenas said, who said he hurt his right hand in the fight. “I don’t want to get the measures back, I don’t want to find another person I can run over and eliminate this guy in the first few rounds
“Inoue is the best and I want to fight him. If I can get him this year, I’m ready. I want to fight the best.”
Acosta, 26, said his plan was to move back 126 pounds, where he was named number 14 by the IBF.
“This fight gave me confidence in my career because I was doing this battle with top fighters in a weight class that wasn’t my weight class,” Acosta said. “So in my weight class,” , I will do better.”
Ryan Songalia is a reporter and editor at BoxingScene.com and has written for ESPN, New York Daily News, Rappler, Guardian, Vice, and Ring Magazine. He holds a Master of Journalism from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and is a member of the American Association of Boxing Writers. He can get in touch ryansongalia@gmail.com Or on Twitter @ryansongalia.
