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Victor Ortiz KOs Roberto Arrieta
In his first fight since officially signing with Golden Boy, junior welterweight prospect Victor Ortiz (22-1-1, 17 KOs) powered to an easy fifth-round TKO win against Argentina's Roberto Arrieta (30-14-4, 13 KOs).
Ortiz signed with Golden Boy earlier this month, a move that was expected. He had declared bankruptcy and had his contract with Top Rank thrown out. During the legal proceedings, Ortiz got an injunction that allowed him to box on Oscar De La Hoya's May 3 undercard, a fight in which he stopped Dairo Esalas in the fifth round. But Ortiz looked rusty and was knocked down.
Against Arrieta, Ortiz looked much sharper. He dropped Arrieta in the second and fourth rounds before dropping him again with a right hand in the fifth. Arrieta, who was cut over his right eye, made it to his feet, but referee Jay Nady called it off at 2:25.
"During the fight he was telling me I was too young and I would never be a world champion and that he was the champion," Ortiz said. "In that round I dropped him and I said I was the champ. Now I want to get in with some high-profile names."
Arrieta, 32, was an experienced trial horse with losses to Vicente Escobedo (a Golden Boy lightweight prospect) and former junior lightweight titlist Mzonke Fana.
When super middleweight Julio Cesar Garcia (41-4, 34 KOs) faced Troy Browning in an ESPN2 fight last summer, he was a big favorite but lost a majority decision after sleepwalking through the fight. Garcia did the same thing against Danny Perez, but this time lost unanimously.
Perez thoroughly dominated the 21-year-old Garcia, whom manager Shelly Finkel and Golden Boy had high hopes for. Instead, Garcia turned in a lethargic performance and lost 100-90, 99-91 and 97-93. For Perez, it was a career-boosting victory. He was a onetime welterweight contender who once knocked Antonio Margarito down in 1999 in the first of Perez's two losses to him. He took the fight with Garcia on just a couple of weeks' notice after the Nevada commission would not approve faded former junior middleweight titleholder Yory Boy Campas.
Perez, 31, ended a three-year layoff with a six-round decision win in July and looked good as he backed Garcia up all night and landed hard blows with both hands. "I took a few years off and now I am back and strong and ready to go," Perez said.
Middleweight Daniel Jacobs (9-0, 9 KOs), a fast-rising 21-year-old prospect from Brooklyn, N.Y., didn't break a sweat, needing just 57 seconds to blow out Ramon Espinoza (10-8, 4 KOs), who didn't appear to have any stomach for a fight. He went down seemingly from a phantom shot early in the first round and then went down again from an overhand right that didn't look very damaging. Referee Toby Gibson immediately stopped it to give Jacobs his seventh first-round knockout.
Philadelphia blue-chip junior welterweight prospect Danny Garcia (7-0, 6 KOs) dropped Tyrone Wiggins (9-23-1, 6 KOs) with a double left hook to knock him out at 1:04 of the first round. Garcia was coming back from a broken thumb that had kept him out since May.
Puerto Rican featherweight prospect Carlos Velasquez (9-0, 8 KOs) stopped Jose Navarrete (12-18-2, 5 KOs) at 1:11 of the fifth round of a scheduled eight-rounder. Velasquez won every round until knocking Navarrete to a knee. He beat the count, but referee Robert Byrd stopped it.
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