{"id":12735,"date":"2011-07-10T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T17:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2011-07-10T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T17:56:31","slug":"brandon-rios-urbano-antillon-post-fight-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12735","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Rios – Urbano Antillon: Post Fight Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>WBA lightweight champion Brandon \u201cBam Bam\u201d Rios (28-0-1, 20 KOs) retained his world title Saturday night with a devastating offensive onslaught, recording a third-round stoppage over Urbano Antillon (28-3, 20 KOs) at The Home Depot Center on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING. With the crowd on its feet the entire fight chanting loudly for their favorite fighter, both Rios and Antillon came out swinging in a toe-to-toe battle. Rios knocked Antillon down with a devastating left hook for the first of two knockdowns at the start of the third round. It was a shot Antillon would never recover from. Moments later he added an overhand right hand that that sent him to the floor face first. The end came when referee David Mendoza waved if off after Antillon stumbled toward his corner at 2:49 in the third round.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew going in that whoever could take the best punch would win,\u201d Rios said afterward. \u201cTonight I was faster and tougher for the couple of rounds we had. I had power in both hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Antillon said he was never able to recover from the first knockdown. \u201cThat left hook caught me on the top of the head and it devastated me,\u201d he said. \u201cI was never the same after the first knock down. Rios punches very hard. I just got caught and I was never able to recover.\u201d
\nSHOWTIME expert commentator Al Bernstein was duly impressed with Rios and the power his punches packed. \u201cWhen you punch like that and when you have a chin like Rios does, it\u2019s going to be very hard to beat this man,\u201d he said during the telecast.<\/p>\n

Rios is ready for anyone his promoter Bob Arum puts in front of him next. \u201cWe watched tape and saw the mistakes he\u2019s made over his last few fights and capitalized,\u201d he said. \u201cI took my anger for him into the ring. I thought he might make it into the later rounds but he didn\u2019t. I\u2019ll fight anybody at 135 \u2014 Marco Antonio Barrera or any of the big names. \u201d<\/p>\n

In the co-feature, Carlos Molina (19-4-2, 6 KOs) outworked former IBF welterweight world champion Kermit Cintron (32-4-1, 28 KOs), who was fighting for the first time in 16 months, in a 10-round junior middleweight clash in what many considered an upset, identical on all three cards, 98-92.<\/p>\n

Molina, of Michoac\u00e1n, M\u00e9xico, used an array of jabs and body shots to outwork Cintron, of Carolina, Puerto Rico, in his dominating victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never hurt, thank God,\u201d Molina said. \u201cI was prepared and ready. I didn\u2019t think about [Cintron’s] ring rust. I\u2019ve had to deal with two years of ring rust in my career. You still have to prepare to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Cintron: \u201cIt was a tough fight. I\u2019ve had a lot of them. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

His trainer, the legendary Ronnie Shields said there were \u201cno excuses.\u201d \u201cHe couldn\u2019t get off. I asked for more punches but they never came.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opening up the telecast on Saturday, SHOWTIME fans got to see Romanian-born Lucian Bute (29-0) of Montreal, Canada, retain his IBF super middleweight title by knocking out Jean-Paul Mendy (29-1-1) of France in the fourth round at the Romexpo in Bucharest, Romania. It was a left by Bute that led to the knockout where the Frenchman was counted out by referee Marlon Wright at 2:48 in the fourth round. It was Bute\u2019s eighth defense of the title he won in 2007, but the first time he fought in Romania since 2005.<\/p>\n

Saturday night\u2019s telecast will re-air Tuesday, July 12, at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on SHOWTIME Extreme. It will also be available On-Demand: July 12-July 25, 2011<\/p>\n

Gus Johnson (blow-by-blow), Bernstein called the action with Jim Gray reporting from ringside. The executive producer is David Dinkins Jr. with Ray Smaltz producing and Bob Dunphy directing.<\/p>\n

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WBA lightweight champion Brandon \u201cBam Bam\u201d Rios (28-0-1, 20 KOs) retained his world title Saturday night with a devastating offensive onslaught, recording a third-round stoppage over Urbano Antillon (28-3, 20 KOs) at The Home Depot Center on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING. With the crowd on its feet the entire fight chanting loudly for their favorite fighter, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3890,3891],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-brandon-rios","tag-urbano-antillion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}