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Jousce Gonzalez went deep to earn his newest knockout win.

The unbeaten light-weight prospect scored three knockdowns en path to a sixth-round stoppage of Jairo Lopez. Gonzalez had down Lopez in spherical two and twice in spherical three, earlier than forcing the combat’s finish at 2:29 of spherical six

Of their DAZN-televised co-feature Thursday night at Fantasy Springs Resort On line casino in Indio, California.

Gonzalez delivered a whole efficiency, working behind a job and notably efficient to the physique. A left hook downstairs floored Lopez late in spherical two, although the Mexican veteran beat the depend and made it to the bell.

Lopez was in bother early in spherical three. Gonzalez landed a left hook to ignite a flurry, punctuated by a straight proper which drove Lopez into the ropes. Referee Eddie Hernandez dominated it a knockdown, insisting that the ropes broke Lopez’s fall. Gonzalez had him down halfway for a 3rd time halfway by means of the spherical, although Lopez confirmed coronary heart and can in avoiding a stoppage.

Gonzalez was met with transient adversity as a conflict of heads left him with a reduce simply outdoors his proper eye. Lopez did his greatest to combat approach again into the combat, although it was solely sufficient to permit the bout to proceed as Gonzalez was piling up rounds.

The tip got here late in spherical six, when an uppercut by Gonzalez (12-0-1, 11KOs) snapped again the top of Lopez (26-15, 17KOs). It was sufficient for the referee, who stopped the competition on the spot.

Gonzalez is the youthful brother of two-time featherweight challenger Joet Gonzalez.  

Manuel Flores made essentially the most of his hometown debut, tearing by means of Tijuana’s Victor Ruiz in a third-round knockout. Flores scored three knockdowns on the night time, the final of which produced a stoppage at 2:21 of spherical three of their bantamweight battle.

A affected person strategy was taken by Flores, a 23-year-old southpaw from close by Coachella who’s a stablemate of and chief sparring accomplice for unified WBA/IBF junior featherweight titlist Murodjon Akhmadaliev. Ruiz was sport early however was outboxed within the first and second spherical earlier than discovering himself on the defensive in a rush.

Flores opened up his assault, sending Ruiz to the canvas twice inside the first 90 seconds of spherical three. Ruiz bravely beat the depend every time however was clearly carrying down. Flores landed a mixture upstairs to ship Ruiz to the canvas for a 3rd time, prompting an instantaneous halt to the competition.

Jorge Chavez had the respect of showing within the opening combat of the primary Golden Boy Struggle Evening present because the pandemic, making fast work of Mexico Metropolis’s Jonathan Tejeda. San Diego’s Chavez earned a second-round knockout of their featherweight bout. A physique shot put Tejeda (0-2, 0KOs) down for the total ten depend at 1:04 of spherical two.

Chavez signed with Golden Boy previous to turning professional on the Jaime Munguia-Gabriel Rosado undercard final November 13 in Anaheim, California. The 22-year-old earned a knockout in his professional debut on that present, now transferring to 2-0 (2KOs) after making fast work of Tejeda.

Jan Salvatierra returned to the win column with a second-round knockout of Ernie Marquez. The 22-year-old Los Cabos native floored Marquez (10-18-2, 3KOs) with a proper hand to the physique, producing the bout’s lone knockdown. Marquez rolled his proper ankle on the best way to the canvas, prompting the referee to instantly cease the competition at 2:29 of spherical two.

Salvatierra (8-1, 4KOs) suffered a fifth-round knockout loss in his earlier outing on the Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant non-televised undercard final November 6 in Las Vegas.

All bouts appeared as a part of a five-fight telecast headlined by a scheduled ten-round light-weight between Palmdale, California’s Joel Diaz Jr. (26-2, 22KOs) and former title challenger Mercito Gesta (32-3-3, 17KOs) of San Diego.

Jake Donovan is a senior author for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox