00:04Introducing first the challenger, fighting out of the blue corner, wearing white trunks with red and green trim, from Tijuana,
00:12California, Mexico, tiene un peso de ciento cuarenta y seis libras.
00:18His weight, 146 pounds. Con un récord de veinticinco victorias y tres derrotas, tiene diecisiete ganadas por knockout. His record,
00:2825 wins, three losses, with 17 knockouts. Ranked the WBO number one welterweight contender. Aquí está el retador, clasificado número
00:38uno peso welter, introducing the challenger, Antonio Margarito.
00:51Y su rival, el campeón en la esquina roja. His opponent, fighting out of the red corner, wearing navy blue
01:00belts with silver and yellow trim, y representando Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
01:09Que son los ciento cuarenta y siete libras. His weight, 147 pounds. Tiene un récord de veinticuatro victorias, dos derrotas
01:18y un empate, con diecinueve ganadas por knockout.
01:22His record, 24 wins, two losses, one draw, with 19 knockouts. Introducing the WBO welterweight champion of the world.
01:31Aquí tenemos el campeón del mundo, peso welter. Demos la bienvenida a Daniel Santos.
01:56And once again, a referee in charge. Now to give instructions, el referee, José Rivera.
02:06Algarito. Algarito. Algarito.
02:10Ok. Buenas noches. Recuerden que quiero una pelea limpia. No quiero cuerpos bajos.
02:16Si un gol se va a caer, el gol se va a caer en la esquina de los dos más
02:19lejos.
02:20Ok. No quiero cabezar, cadazo. Recuerden, cuerpos bajos, se va a dar atentura.
02:25Ok. Quiero una pelea limpia. Buena suerte y que gane el mejor.
02:30Cuéste, cuéste, cuéste.
02:35Much emotion here at this arena. A poised, confident, Daniel Santos, his third defense,
02:42the southpaw, who likes to keep busy, very dangerous with the left, being urged on by his fans.
02:48His chin and defense are a bit on the suspect side.
02:51He did go down his last fight against the guy who had never been in a title fight before,
02:56Margarito, former sparring partner of Oscar de la Hoya, is known as a fast starter,
03:01tough, aggressive, offensive-minded fighter who keeps a fast pace, likes to come forward,
03:07and he'll try to make Santos work.
03:10As mentioned, Margarito, not a big banger, but he throws a lot of punches, has a good chin.
03:16He throws a lot of punches, the first step, moves by the bottom,
03:18Santos, primary weapon, the straight left, and it matters against Ahmed Katya to win the title.
03:26A KO round five in a rematch.
03:28So we'll see what happens here.
03:30Round one, scheduled for 12 for the WBO World Award Championship.
03:35They have the champion listed as an inch taller than Margarita but Margarita looks bigger and he said to us
03:41he would look to take advantage of the height and reach advantage but on paper it really doesn't look like
03:48much but in reality it looks like he's got more of an advantage.
03:56The white.
03:58With the red and the green trim.
04:02And the Navy with silver and yellow trim.
04:06Santos the Southpaw the hometown product.
04:09I think their first sequence.
04:12Margarita is going to come forward.
04:14Santos going to look to set him up for that straight left hand.
04:16Santos has the four punching power than Margarita.
04:21Santos 24 2 and 1 19 knockouts.
04:25Margarita 25 and 3 17 knockouts.
04:29Margarita rated number 1 WB.
04:34Nice combination both guys put together very clean.
04:37And then a countering straight right by Margarita.
04:40He just banged it.
04:41Santos said they didn't plan.
04:42And that's going to happen with the Southpaw.
04:54I think it's on Margarita.
04:57There's blood around the right eye of Margarita who really looks ticked off right now.
05:02This is not what he had in mind in starting off this fight.
05:05Margarita is very upset that it starts off with a clash of heads and it results in Margarita getting the
05:12worst of it.
05:15They banged hands with that cut is definitely a very bad place.
05:19And now Santos took off of Margarita.
05:22Margarita with a bit of a sense of urgency.
05:25I'll tell you what, if this turned into a slow fest, I'd like the chances for Margarita.
05:28He might be a little bit tougher.
05:56There's going to be a lot of that for the two of them.
06:00And now the referee, Jose Rivera, wants to check out the eye of Margarita.
06:09The chief ringside physician, Dr. Raul Casas.
06:16Oh, it's being stopped.
06:18It's being stopped in the first round.
06:26If a fight is stopped by an accidental headbutt before the end of the fourth round, the fighters ruled a
06:32no contest.
06:33So I believe we'll probably see a rematch of this one, Steve.
06:35Oh, yes.
06:38It's over in the first round off a collision of heads.
06:42Santos is upset.
06:43Margarita is more upset, obviously.
06:48And this is not the way Santos wanted to do it.
06:52Well, there's no closure here whatsoever.
06:55No contest is probably the best thing to do.
06:59Hardly even open.
07:02Oh, brother.
07:04A bummer.
07:11Well, we'll take a couple of looks at the, uh, at the headbutts.
07:15Yeah, I think you'll see it's a combination of as Santos comes in, he dives in pretty quick with that
07:20left hand.
07:21And the champion, Jimmy, the challenger, duck goes to duck.
07:25And I didn't see the headbutt there.
07:31There it is.
07:32Oh, they just come into each other.
07:34They just come right into each other.
07:35So accidental.
07:39Both wincing, both.
07:41Well, one has blood and one does not.
07:45We see Margarita on the attack coming in.
07:50Both got their heads up and slammed right into each other.
07:53Were you surprised when they stopped it or was it something you expected right there?
07:57I thought the cut was bad.
07:59They placed it in.
07:59It's clearly bad.
08:00Thought it was a good stop.
08:04Here we'll look at it one more time.
08:06Got his head up and hit it.
08:07They just run into each other.
08:09He's keeping his head too high.
08:11Santos had been hit, so his head was bouncing back off the rope, right back into the face and head
08:15of Margarita.
08:17Of course, the doctor could make a recommendation, but it's the referee.
08:20In this case, Jose Rivera, who has the final call of whether the fight is stopped or not.
08:25But I'd hate to be the referee that doesn't listen to the doctor's recommendation.
08:29That could backfire.
08:30You don't want to take that chance, that risk.
08:33So the clock stopped at the 1.23 mark of round one after that bloody clash of heads between Daniel
08:40Santos and Antonio Margarita.
08:43Well, they've cleaned it up okay there.
08:48But at the 2.11 mark, the referee stopped the action for good.
08:53Very unfortunate.
08:56Let's get the official word from our ring announcer, Jimmy Lennon Jr.
09:07Ladies and gentlemen, the time, 2 minutes, 11 seconds, round number one.
09:12Por razón de una cabezaza accidental.
09:16No hay decision by way of accidental headbutt, we have a no contest.
09:24No hay decision cabezaza accidental.
09:30So, no contest officially in the books.
09:33Daniel Santos remains the WBO welterweight champion, and there's no question they'll have to do it again.
09:39Why don't they just wait about a half hour and do it again?
09:43Because I think the cuddles just open up right away.
09:45I'm just being facetious to say no.
09:48Anticlimactic ending.
09:49Anticlimactic ending.
09:52Anticlimactic ending.
09:52Anticlimactic ending.
09:52Anticlimactic ending.
09:52Anticlimactic ending.
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