00:00The answer has been a resounding yes, as Torres looks to build even more buzz and start knocking on the door of names inside the top 10.
00:30Ladies and gentlemen, a very good evening to you and welcome.
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00:55We have a great night of boxing.
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01:21Now we have a heavyweight fight, introducing the judges.
01:27Introducing to you our three scoring judges from ringside, we have Paul Landeros, Diego Herrera and Luis Ruiz.
01:36Supervisor Rafael López Santos and the referee in charge, our referee is Johnny Guzmán Ramos.
01:44Alright folks, high tens and heavyweights.
01:50All right fans, here we go, 10 rounds of boxing for the NABON, NABF Heavyweight Championship.
01:59Introducing to you first the challenger on my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
02:03Wearing white trunks with red trim, he weighed in at 241 pounds, presenting the blue corner.
02:11Weighing two hundred and forty-one pounds, with a record of 23 wins, seven losses.
02:17He has 14 wins coming by way of knockout.
02:20With a record of twenty-three wins and seven losses, he has fourteen wins by knockout.
02:27From Ustina, Levan, in the Czech Republic, introducing Tomás Sale.
02:41And his opponent across the ring is the defending champion, fighting out of the red corner.
02:46Wearing black trunks with red trim, he weighed in at 223.6 pounds.
02:52And his opponent, the champion in the red corner, weighing two hundred twenty-three point six pounds.
03:00To U.S. Olympic silver medalist who holds the NABO, NABF, and IABF North American Heavyweight titles.
03:08He is undefeated in his campaign with a record of 13 wins, no losses, 11 wins coming by way of knockout.
03:16His professional record: 13 wins without losses, with 11 wins by knockout.
03:24From Tulare, California, in the United States, with Mexican blood,
03:30Let's welcome the undefeated Richard Kiki Torres Jr.
03:39And here is the referee, Johnny Guzmán Ramos.
03:49All right, gentlemen, I gave you the rules.
04:10I'm a bear back of honor all the time.
04:12Do you understand that?
04:13Do you understand?
04:13Touch your glove.
04:14Good job.
04:14And we take a look at the tail of the tape, Richard Torres Jr. and Tomas Salek.
04:25See Torres with the height disadvantage, but with the reach advantage here tonight.
04:31A 76-inch reach for Richard Torres Jr., who looks to send a message to the rest of the heavyweight division once again here tonight.
04:39Round one, scheduled for 10.
04:42Very few people, Morgan, expect this to go 10 rounds.
04:45No, and the first thing you notice is that the functional height difference doesn't equal what we see in the tail of the tape.
04:54Salek looks significantly taller than Torres, but Torres, like, he is used to this.
04:59You mentioned that he is sort of a throwback in the sense that he's not the 6'6", 260 pounds heavyweight that we're used to seeing.
05:05But you know who else is sort of built along these lines, smaller than the other heavyweights, also a southpaw with immaculate footwork, is Oleksandr Usyk.
05:15Now, they don't fight exactly the same, but the template is there.
05:23The template for Salek on his good performance on the Czech circuit.
05:27It's with that high guard, but it's moving forward, and the tempo and the hand speed and the aggression of Torres Jr.
05:36are not making that a possibility for him.
05:40This is the first time I've seen Salek take a voluntary step back, take a voluntary trip around the ring.
05:48But it's because Torres isn't giving him much choice.
05:50This right hook connected there from Torres Jr. a moment ago, around Salek's guard.
06:09Salek offering up what I think may be the first two right hands of the fight.
06:14And he also took a straight left there.
06:21Took it better than I thought he would, Corey.
06:23He's still standing, but I don't know how many of those he wants to take.
06:26That one, too, all night.
06:29Again, we mentioned the criticism from his former coach.
06:32Kind of alleging that there are times when he's felt that he's frozen on fight night.
06:38Maybe he hasn't continued fighting when otherwise he could have.
06:41He has taken some good shots here in the early round, but the question is, how many of these can he take?
06:49And can you afford a feeling out process, if that's what it is for Salek, against this kind of an onslaught?
06:55Yes, and he's also in full defensive mode right now.
06:58He's not leaving himself open.
07:00You already hear the referee telling Salek to show himself.
07:04Big right hook there from Torres Jr., and you're already seeing blood on Salek's face.
07:09It's taking less than three minutes for Torres to just brutalize the face of Salek, who is leaking blood right now.
07:21I do not think this fight is continuing.
07:34No, if he's saying ow, ow, ow from that much pressure on his nose, you can only imagine how much more it would hurt.
07:40So Richard Torres Jr. with one uppercut seems to shatter the nose of Tomas Salek.
07:49And Torres, not telling the crowd to be polite.
07:54You can see him gesture towards the audience here, though.
07:57A little bit of a muted response from Torres as well, who maybe wanted a few more rounds here tonight.
08:03But, this is also what we mean by difficulty.
08:06When you reach this level of progressing to heavyweight,
08:10There is a gap between the heavyweight level and the journeyman
08:15that a prospect like Torres Jr. can simply fly through.
08:19And it's here now, too.
08:21And there isn't a lot of it in entertainment.
08:23The crowd started booing Salik,
08:25But what the crowd couldn't hear
08:27It was how she stole from the doctor who manipulated her nose.
08:31And what you can't see is how much blood cameo his nose makes.
08:34when I arrived with the smithbucket.
08:36So this is not a man who, right now,
08:39It's fito to keep taking that type of punchline
08:44that Torres Torres Jr. was dishing out.
08:49Let's take a look back
08:50at how this one ended.
08:54And it was that right hook at first.
08:56You see that right hook, yeah.
08:58And it was the fact that that hook came across his nose.
09:02And the uppercut made it substantially worse
09:05in just a few moments.
09:06Sort of a fly-by nose-breaking.
09:09And I don't know if you got a good look
09:11at Richard Torres' gloves, Corey,
09:12but that was a bit of a Montreal expo,
09:15Montreal Alouettes on Gray Cup weekend.
09:17Montreal Alouettes design,
09:19which it comes by honestly
09:20because those are rival gloves.
09:22Made in Montreal, exactly.
09:23This is our second Russ Amber shout-out of the night.
09:25Looks like we are moments away
09:30from making this one official
09:31and easy night's work
09:32for Richard Torres Jr.
09:35I know the belly.
09:35You want to know?
09:36Forks.
09:37Forks.
09:38Forks.
09:38Forks.
09:40Ladies and gentlemen,
09:41Ladies and gentlemen,
09:42we have the time of 2 minutes 45 seconds
09:45in round number one.
09:47We have the time, two minutes,
09:4845 seconds in the first round.
09:52He is the winner by way of tactical knockout,
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