Monday, July 14, 2008 Avenging Mexico By HAS Mexico found an answer to Manny Pacquiao?
HAS Mexico found an answer to Manny Pacquiao?
If Pacquiao has been dubbed the “Mexicutioner” for beating the best of Mexican fighters since breaking into world boxing’s consciousness in 2003, 26-year-old Ulises Solis is slowly returning the favor against the Philippines.
Solis retained his International Boxing Federation (IBF) light flyweight title with a unanimous decision win over Glenn Donaire, the older brother of the IBF and International Boxing Organiation flyweight champion Nonito, yesterday in Sonora
Mexico.
Solis, who made his seventh successful defense of the title he won against Will Grisby in June 1, 2006, also scored his third straight victory against a Filipino challenger.
The Mexican improved to 27-1-2 with 20 KOs, while Donaire fell to 17-4 with 9 KOs.
First to fall against Ulises, whose older brother Jorge lost in eight rounds to Pacquiao in April 2007, was former ALA Boy Rodel Mayol in August and Bert Batawang in December last year.
Mayol, who got barely a month’s notice to fight Solis, only lasted eight rounds against the Mexican champion, while Batawang, who predicted to KO Solis in eight rounds, fell in the ninth round.
In his latest title defense, Philboxing.com reported that Donaire was the aggressor for most of the fight but the scorecards tells a different story—all rounds went to the Mexican.
Point of view
Two judges had it, 120-108, while the third one had it 120-107. The names and nationalities of the judges were not named in the Philboxing.com report, boxrec.com nor in a short news item at Yahoo.com.
“From our point of view, Solis did not win the fight. The judges simply gave it to him. Donaire was the aggressor all through out the fight and he connected more than Solis,” Philboxing.com’s Ed dela Vega, who provides Pinoy pugilists in the US with custom-made mouth guards, wrote in his report.
Had Glenn won, he and Nonito would have been the first Pinoy brothers to reign as world champions at the same time.
It was the second title fight for Glen in the last two years, losing to the then undefeated Vic Darchinyan in six rounds for the IBO and IBF belts which his brother eventually won. (ML)
