Showtime
Championship Boxing
Results
Castillo vs.
Reyes
February 4, 2006
The Don Haskins Center
El Paso, Texas
Lightweight Bout (12
Rds)
Jose Luis Castillo
(54-7, 47 KOs) wins a unanimous decision over Rolando Reyes (26-4-2, 16 KOs)
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Judges scored the bout
116-111, 117-110, 119-108 for Castillo
NABF Lightweight Title Bout
(12 Rds)
Jose Armando Santa
Cruz (22-1, 12 KOs) wins a unanimous decision over Edner Cherry (19-4-2, 8 KOs)
- Judges scored the bout
114-113, 115-112, 117-110 for Santa Cruz - Cruz retains title
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CORRALES NEXT FOR CASTILLO
AFTER EASY DECISION OVER REYES,
SANTA CRUZ OUTPOINTS CHERRY IN SLUGFEST TO RETAIN NABF TITLE
ON A SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLEHEADER
FROM THE DON HASKINS CENTER, EL PASO, TEXAS
Twinbill Will Be Replayed First Time On SHO Extreme On Monday, Feb. 6, At
11 PM ET/PT
EL PASO, Tex. - Styles do
indeed make fights and -- for 36 minutes -- Rolando Reyes's
counter-punching
style totally frustrated Jose
Luis Castillo. At the finish, however, it was the former two-time World
Boxing
Council (WBC) lightweight
champion who came away with a lopsided 12-round decision Saturday on
SHOWTIME.
In an exciting, extremely
close SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING co-feature at the Don Haskins Center
on the University of Texas El
Paso (UTEP) campus, Jose Armando Santa Cruz successfully defended his
North American Boxing
Federation (NABF) 135-pound title with a hard-fought, unanimous 12-round
decision
over Edner Cherry. A
doubleheader co-promoted by Bob Arum's Top Rank, Inc. and Gary Shaw
Productions,
LLC, aired at 9 p.m. ET/PT,
delayed on the west coast).
Castillo (54-7-1, 47 KOs), of
Sonora, Mexico, did not get the emphatic knockout victory he would have
preferred but he did more than
enough to win by the scores of 119-108, 117-110 and 116-111. The victory,
while not an artistic success,
sets up an eagerly awaited third fight between Castillo and current WBC
lightweight boss Diego "Chico"
Corrales, perhaps in June, on SHOWTIME. One of the most highly-
anticipated rubber matches in
the history of boxing was supposed to take place Saturday here, but
Corrales
injured a rib during training
three weeks ago and withdrew.
"Please don't blame me for
tonight. It was not my fault," Castillo, who had a point deducted for a
low blow in
the opening seconds of the
seventh round, said. "I thought it would be a tough fight but not a
dangerous one.
But I was prepared. Reyes
didn't come to fight. But he can now say he went 12 rounds with Jose Luis
Castillo."
Reyes (26-4-2, 16 KOs), of
Oxnard, Calif., entered the ring having won five straight and 19 out of
20. But the
World Boxing Organization (WBO)
No. 5 and International Boxing Federation (IBF) No. 14 contender never
could mount an offense.
"Rolando is a much better
fighter than what he showed tonight," his trainer Robert Garcia said.
"Castillo is a
great fighter, but Rolando
showed him too much respect."
In the fight of the night,
neither Santa Cruz nor Cherry showed the other any respect as they took
turns
exchanging their best shots in
a crowd-pleasing battle that featured numerous momentum swings.
Santa Cruz (22-1, 12 KOs), of
Los Angeles, got dumped on the seat of his trunks from a counter right
hand
with a minute remaining in the
third and was hurt in a sensational eighth round, but still managed to get
the
hard-earned triumph by the
scores of 114-113, 115-112 and an out-of-line 117-110.
"I hope everybody was happy
with this fight, especially SHOWTIME," Santa Cruz said. "Cherry was tough
and determined. He hurt me a
few times, but I knew I had to keep working and trying to be the
aggressor. I
thought I did really well down
the stretch. But I know I could have worked the body more."
Cherry (19-4-2, eight KOs), of
Wauchula, Fla., by way of Nassau, Bahamas, was disappointed with the
decision, particularly with
the scorecard that had him losing by seven points.
"I. fought as hard as I
could," he said. "I thought I gave a good performance. I definitely
thought I won. He
was throwing a lot of
punching, but I was blocking some of them. I knew I was hurting him way
more than he
was hurting me. That they said
I lost by seven points was wrong."
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING's
Steve Albert and Al Bernstein called the action from ringside with
Karyn Bryant serving as roving
reporter. The producer of the SHOWTIME telecast was David Dinkins Jr. with
Bob Dunphy directing.
Saturday's fights will be
replayed in their entirety on SHOWTIME TOO at 11 p.m. ET/PT on Tuesday,
Feb. 7.
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING celebrates its 20th anniversary of televising
world- class fights on its
next telecast on Saturday,
March 4, when undefeated IBF super middleweight champion Jeff "Left Hook"
Lacy (21-0, 1 ND, 17 KOs)
meets fellow unbeaten WBO titleholder Joe Calzaghe (40-0, 31 KOs). The
eagerly anticipated bout for
the undisputed world super middleweight championship will originate from
Manchester, England, and air
at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast). Lacy-Calzaghe comes almost 20
years to the day of the first
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast. On the first show, on March 10,
1986, "Marvelous" Marvin
Hagler registered a spectacular and unforgettable 11th-round knockout over
John
"The Beast" Mugabi. Since that
time, the network has aired some of the most historic and significant
events
in the sport including both
Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson bouts.
Always at the forefront of
boxing, SHOWTIME has set itself apart by telecasting "great fights, no
rights" on
the first Saturday of every
month. SHOWTIME is the first network to regularly deliver live boxing in
High
Definition. In addition,
SHOWTIME continues to be a pioneer in sports television with a number of
interactive
features across multiple
platforms making SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecasts the most
enjoyable, immersive viewing
experience for the boxing audience.
(2/04/06)
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