{"id":26213,"date":"2013-01-12T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=26213"},"modified":"2013-01-12T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T22:22:19","slug":"boxing-news-fridays-shobox-results-photos-ronny-rios-daquan-arnett-triumphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=26213","title":{"rendered":"Boxing News: Friday’s ShoBox Results & Photos: Ronny Rios, Daquan Arnett Triumphant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ronny Rios (20-0, 9 KO\u2019s), of Santa Ana, Calif., remained undefeated and captured the vacant NABF Featherweight Championship with a unanimous 10-round decision over former WBA Super Bantamweight World Champion Rico Ramos (21-2, 11 KO\u2019s), of Los Angeles, in Friday\u2019s main event on ShoBox: The New Generation from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino live on SHOWTIME\u00ae.<\/p>\n

In a clash of unbeaten junior middleweights in the co-feature, Daquan Arnett (10-0, 6 KO’s), of Orlando, Fla., won an eight-round decision over hard-trying Brandon Quarles (10-1-1, 2 KO’s) of Alexandria, Va.<\/p>\n

The doubleheader was featured on the first night of a Free Preview Weekend on SHOWTIME, which continues through tomorrow\/Sunday, Jan. 13.<\/p>\n

Rios, who turns 23 on Jan. 22, won his ShoBox debut and the biggest fight of his career by the scores of 100-90, 97-93 and 96-94. Arnett, 20, a Junior Olympic national champion, got the nod over Quarles by the scores of 78-73, 77-74 and 76-75. There were no knockdowns in either bout.<\/p>\n

ShoBox analyst and boxing historian Steve Farhood provided his thoughts afterward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second half of the main event there was almost a role reversal,\u201d he said. \u201cRios, who had been the aggressor, began fighting tentatively. On my card that shift resulted in a close fight. I agree that Rios won, but he certainly could have been more impressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for the co-feature, Arnett is clearly a gifted young fighter, but his issue seems to be his focus and having a good game plan and sticking to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rios is happy with the win but felt he could do better. \u201cI give myself only a C grade,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew I won it, but I didn\u2019t win it the way I wanted. I really wanted to make a statement on SHOWTIME, but I hesitated too much in the last few rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to keep pushing forward and working the body, but he kept smothering me. The good news is I passed my first big test, took the next step in my career and hopefully will be getting a world ranking because of it. It\u2019s a great honor to win the NABF belt, but I really wanted to look better. It\u2019s difficult to look good against a guy with his style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramos was moving up a notch in weight and making his first start in seven months, but he did not make excuses. \u201cSure, I\u2019m disappointed,\u201d he said. \u201cI know I could and should have done more, but give Rios credit. He got me with some really nice jabs.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Arnett\u2019s own admission, his victory over Quarles was anything but an artistic success. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t pretty, plain and simple,\u201d Arnett said. \u201cHe wanted to make it as ugly as he could because he knew I had a better boxing style.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe managed to take me out of my game plan, but I proved that I could adapt. I switched to southpaw at the start of the fourth round just to give him a different look and I think that threw him off. There\u2019s no question I won it clearly in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quarles, who had a point deducted in the seventh for leading with his head, felt the wrong guy got his hand raised. \u201cI felt I was out-and-out robbed,\u201d he said. \u201cI outworked him, threw more punches, and hurt him way more than he hurt me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took him out of his game plan. He was holding my hand down the whole fight. So what happens? They take a point away from me. I\u2019m so sure I won, I can\u2019t even be upset.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the top non-televised fight, popular fan favorite and undefeated NABO Bantamweight Champion Randy \u201cEl Matador\u201d Caballero (18-0, 10 KO\u2019s), of Coachella, Calif., registered a fourth-round knockout over Luis Maldonado (38-10-1, 29 KO\u2019s), of Mexicali, Mex. It was Caballero\u2019s 11th appearance at Fantasy Springs.<\/p>\n

The doubleheader will re-air the first time this week as follows:
\nDAY CHANNEL
\nThursday, Jan. 17, 10 p.m. ET\/PT SHOWTIME EXTREME
\nFriday\u2019s fights will be available ON DEMAND beginning today\/Saturday, Jan. 12.
\nBarry Tompkins called the ShoBox action from ringside with Farhood and former World Champion Raul Marquez serving as expert analysts. The executive producer is Gordon Hall with Richard Gaughan producing and Rick Phillips directing.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit www.goldenboypromotions.com, www.fantasyspringsresort.com, follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com\/GoldenBoyBoxing, www.twitter.com\/fantasysprings or visit on Facebook at www.facebook.com\/GoldenBoyBoxing or www.facebook.com\/fantasysprings. For information on SHOWTIME, visit http:\/\/Sports.SHO.com, www.twitter.com\/SHOsports or www.facebook.com\/SHOBoxing.<\/p>\n

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Ronny Rios (20-0, 9 KO\u2019s), of Santa Ana, Calif., remained undefeated and captured the vacant NABF Featherweight Championship with a unanimous 10-round decision over former WBA Super Bantamweight World Champion Rico Ramos (21-2, 11 KO\u2019s), of Los Angeles, in Friday\u2019s main event on ShoBox: The New Generation from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino live on SHOWTIME\u00ae. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,602,656],"class_list":["post-26213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-results","tag-shobox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26213","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=26213"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}