The World Awaits No More

MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA - Two Filipino young guns has proven themselves against world class opposition both via a very convincing Unanimous Decision..

On the first televised bout, Rey "Boom-Boom" Bautista won the WBO Super Bantamweight Title Eliminator match over erstwhile undefeated Argentinian Sergio Manuel "Rocky" Medina for the right to challenge WBO Sper Bantamweight champ Juan Ponce de Leon. The scores after 12 rounds goes - Dave Moretti 116-108, C.J. Ross 115-109 and Paul Smith 115-109 - all in favor of Bautista.

It was a very entertaining fight, which was won by Bautista through savage body punching in the earlier rounds and accurate head hunting in the late rounds. Medina was down on the canvas on th 6th and 11th rounds. Bautista though was counted for a KO in the 7th round when he went groggy after being hit by a right straight from Medina.

Bautista improved to 23-0 (17KOs) as Medina dropped to 28-1 (16KOs).

Meanwhile, on one of the non-televised bouts, Alex John "Bazooka" Banal defeated veteran Mexican Juan Alberto "The Monster" Rosas with the score of 78-73, 78-73, 76-75.

Banal improved to 13-0-1 (10KOs) as Rosas dropped to 23-3-0 (22KOs).