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Wilfredo Gomez defends his WBC Super Bantamweight Title against Ruben Valdes on ABC Boxing
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00:00in las vegas nevada ladies and gentlemen the officials assigned by chuck hull
00:06the judges are ismari fellow joe swessel and dwayne ford the timekeeper is jane broadfoot
00:13the county at the knockdowns eddie o'toole the doctor of ringside dr donald romeo and the
00:18referee is ferd hernandez ferdinandes you may remember from the ali defense against lyle here
00:26in las vegas a few years back the three officials will do the scoring ishmael
00:33from puerto rico jerry swessel and dwayne ford it's a scheduled 15 rounder valdez number two rated
00:44super bantamweight contender with an alleged record of 39 five and one i use the word alleged advisedly
00:52because that record is unverifiable gomez's record verified 27 0 and one
01:09three knockdown rule has been waived scoring will be done on the 10-point must system
01:15in gomez's corner familiar figures oscar siri lewis kakias and sol espinoza his trainer gomez weighed in
01:27at 122 valdez at 121 and three quarters there's your tale of the tape little age differential little
01:36weight differential no height differential and no material reach differential but those are just cold
01:43statistics they don't really matter what matters is can valdez stay away from gomez the bell for round
01:53one lumez to the left of your screen valdez now to the left in the white trunks lumez wearing maroon or dark trunks
02:23one from the mendoza fight tomes is a quick work likes to end them early
02:53when the opponent lacks a punch and there is nothing really in valdez's ascertainable record that says
03:05he has a punch gomez usually goes in in and in puts away the opponent in a hurry
03:13this is first round action
03:27we're coming up to the two minute point in this first round it's all gomez
03:47worst place in the world to be is against the ropes against gomez
04:0545 seconds left in round one
04:1745 seconds left in the right
04:22valdez is doing nothing but attempting the cover with his fists his occasional swings are hapless misses
04:36well using the jab finally gun in a couple of times valdez
04:42as we approach the end of round one
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05:54round two underway
05:59fredo gomez totally dominating in the first round valdez swinging mainly at air showing startlingly little
06:08balance for a fighter who's second ranked wbc super bantamweight contender
06:20as the look even in this early going of a hapless mismatch domes scoring repeatedly
06:38in the first round
06:45i don't see valdez doing any fighting
06:51and the most wealthy in fredo gamba
07:03were a minute and 15 seconds into this the second round
07:12is getting through those gloves valdez
07:15this shouldn't take very long
07:18Valdez stung and hurt
07:28by a succession of combinations
07:31half staggered there
07:32doing nothing but taking punishment
07:36he's ready to go
07:38now holding on
07:42for dear life
07:56is just peppering him and I'm
07:58surprised that Ruben has not gone down
08:09he's doing nothing but trying to cover
08:15and pinioned against the ropes he half went down
08:19he is an open target
08:23this is one-sided enough to be embarrassing
08:39we're approaching the end of the round
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09:53the bell for round three
09:55super bantamweight championship fight
09:57Gomez defending
09:59this is
10:01as one-sided a thing as you could ever see
10:05first two rounds
10:07Valdez threw a total of maybe
10:09two jabs
10:11maybe one and a half
10:13Gomez has been peppering Valdez
10:17had him hurt and wobbly in the second round
10:19did not put him down
10:21give Valdez credit for that
10:23right there
10:25that
10:27Gomez uppercut
10:29hurt Valdez
10:31the
10:37ground
10:41action
10:43referee
10:45spurred Hernandez
10:49became a figure of some controversy
10:51when he stopped the Ali-Lyle fight a few years back
10:55Lyle insisting that he could have gone on
10:59a
11:01minute and a half left
11:05in round three
11:07and still
11:09Valdez though
11:11accepting
11:13punishment
11:15a
11:17minute and a half left
11:19in round three
11:21and still Valdez though
11:23accepting punishment
11:25absorbing it has not gone down
11:31surprisingly little foot movement from Valdez
11:39ever since the fight started
11:53nicknamed the cobra
11:57he has shown none of the lightning swiftness of the reptile
12:01either with his hands or his feet
12:11now if this fight should end early
12:17which it certainly appears it will
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12:39coming now to the end of round three
12:45and Valdez still
12:47not to the
12:49canvas
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13:55the bell for round four
13:58Gomez
13:59totally dominant
14:01but has not yet
14:02as I've stated
14:03flawed Valdez
14:04though in the second round it appeared he had Ruben ready to go
14:13pass
14:15finally
14:17to Davison
14:18held
14:20he was
14:22fourth round action
14:24hold
14:26Gomez
14:27keep gonna
14:28right
14:29right
14:31right
14:32fighting this way just absorbing punishment
14:34Valdez can only hope that somehow
14:38Gomez
14:39to punch himself out.
14:44Some felt that's what Gomez did
14:47when he fought Carlos Mendoza in this ring.
14:50This is a 20 foot ring.
14:53Eight ounce gloves, of course, have a last variety.
15:09Coming up to the halfway point in round four.
15:36This much must be said.
15:39Gomez not landing the cleanest
15:43or sharpest of punches.
15:51Valdez steadily covering or seeking to win those gloves.
15:56Those two got through.
15:57Valdez.
16:09Valdez attempting to jab more.
16:1130 seconds left in the fourth round of an uninspired contest.
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17:52The bell for round five.
17:56The fight totally dominated by Wilfredo Gomez, the WBC Super Bantamweight Championship at stake.
18:05But Gomez, after a turret second round attack where he had Valdez ready to go, seems to perhaps not be that interested in the fight.
18:17Kind of walking through it.
18:20His punches haven't had the usual Gomez crispness, and so Valdez has not hit the floor.
18:30Which says something for Valdez's toughness, perhaps, and his courage.
18:35Now, Wilfredo did not make the wait on the first try, so maybe that took something out of him.
18:47Right now, he's trying to finish it in the Gomez white.
18:53You have to wonder what Salvador Sanchez's brilliant victory over Little Red Lopez yesterday will do the Gomez's thinking,
19:15who had been looking forward to moving up and fighting Lopez.
19:23Gomez is punishing Valdez, but still Valdez is on his feet.
19:34Well, it was a great fight yesterday, anyway.
19:37of a pattern with the earlier rounds.
20:02oh valdez got in a good right with gomez against the ropes and he got in a good little uppercut
20:09first time in the fight valdez has shown some offensive life
20:14there's gomez back and that left hook hurt valdez
20:32this fight's an upset already most figured it couldn't possibly go five rounds
20:40we'll be right back with more of the gomez valdez
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21:52the bell for round six
21:57this fight is a redundant pattern
22:02as valdez absorbs the punishment but gomez has not been able to put him away
22:09now gomez dancing just a bit
22:15now gomez gets into that crouch
22:23oh a good sharp shot right by gomez that's done
22:32valdez
22:33gomez get in that combination and then two more
22:42suddenly he goes down to the belly
22:44what gomez is really after is the record in 11th straight successful defense knockouts
22:59going down to the belly some in this round trying to weaken valdez to the point where finally he can floor
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23:39Great
23:57Valdez has been hit enough times
23:59Ended this fight a long time ago right there he was staggered back
24:07He has not gone to the canvas yet, so you must respect his courage
24:1725 into the round oh
24:21His head has taken a fearful found out just fifth
24:25Blow upon blow
24:31Left hook
24:33Stung him there is blood now coming from Valdez's mouth
24:38And the punishment goes on
24:42We'll be right back with more of the gomez valdez wbc world super bantamweight title fight after this word from our local stations
24:55That's
25:25I don't know.
25:55mercifully they have stopped the fight a terrible mismatch a merciless beating
26:07all that one can say is the gutsy little valdez refused to go down between rounds
26:15the commission called the referee over told him to keep a close eye on valdez and be ready to
26:23stop the fight very much aware of four recent deaths in boxing hopefully such terrible happenstances
26:31will be minimized in the future through the attempts of various state jurisdictions to
26:37introduce new protective legislation for the fighters they didn't want any of that here and
26:43this fight was stopped valdez bleeding from the mouth having absorbed a terrible number of blows
26:50to the head and so gomez gets his record an 11th straight knockout ruben valdez is unable to answer
26:58the bell for the seventh round the winner by a technical knockout and still super man of weight
27:06champion of the world will trade all go man that's the announcement by ring announcer chuck hull and
27:16one can only feel very good about the fact that it ended now you're seeing some of the last
27:26exchange if you want to call it that in the sixth and what proved to be the last one just an open talk
27:35so gomez retains the title in a simply horrible mismatch and we'll be back with the thomas hearns fight
27:47in just 60 seconds head and shoulders down
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