Charlo knocked out Brian Castaño

Iron Man’ left no doubt in the rematch and finished the Argentinean in 10 rounds at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
Super Welterweight has a new unified champion after Jermell Charlo’s knockout victory over Argentina’s Brian Castaño at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.

This time Charlo did not wait until the scorecards and finished ‘El Boxi’ with the power of his fists in the tenth round after sending the Argentinean twice to the canvas, the second time for good, to snatch the World Boxing Organization belt and add it to his World Boxing Council, World Association and International Boxing Federation belts.

Castaño started the fight by unleashing his fists and punished Charlo’s face, who tried to take advantage of his reach advantage to keep his distance over the South American, but ‘El Boxi’ kept on the front to complicate the fight for the now unified champion.

However, as the fight progressed it was Charlo who took control of the ring and began to connect better punches to dominate the last rounds before connecting with power to Castaño to send him to the canvas in the tenth round, the Argentine bravely got up from the canvas but had no answer to the attacks of ‘Iron Man’ marking the end of the fight.

With the win, Charlo improved his record to 35-1-1 with 19 knockouts while Castaño suffered the first loss of his career to stand at 17-1-2 with 12 knockouts.

Despite losing the fight, El Boxi had the support of all Argentines and the backing of YPF. The national company, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a sponsor of the Argentine boxer, supported him in his preparation and was present at the fight as Castaño’s official energy supplier.

In the first prelims, Cuban Geovany Bruzón knocked out Mexican Daniel Nájera in the heavyweight fight; also in the heavyweight, Gurgen Hovhannisyan knocked out Jesse Bryan in a bout between Americans; in a bout between Californian debutants in the heavyweight, Luciano Sanchez finished Adrian Silva by knockout; in Welterweight, local José Mejía knocked out Matthew Reed in the first round; while in Lightweight, Anthony Cuba moved to 4-0-1 with a second round knockout of Oscar Acevedo (7-1), who said goodbye to his undefeated record.

Also in the preliminaries, Jose Perez beat Anthony Chavez by unanimous decision in the Super Featherweight bout; the Filipino Marlon Tapales had no problems to overcome in two rounds the Mexican Jose Estrella in Featherweight; in Lightweight Jerry Perez finished Nicaraguan Erick Lanzas Jr. in the fifth round; and in Middleweight, Brandyn Lynch defeated Marcos Hernandez by unanimous decision.

In the televised card, Mexico’s Kevin Gonzalez maintained his undefeated record with a unanimous decision win over Puerto Rican veteran Emanuel Rivera Nieves by cards 96-64, 97-93 and 98-92 at super bantamweight; and in the co-main event, Jaron Ennis extended his undefeated record to 29-0, with 27 knockouts, finishing Custio Clayton (19-1-1) in the second round with a powerful right to the head of the Canadian, who did not beat the referee’s count and suffered the first loss of his career.

“I just try to get better day by day, I look for what I need and what I need is the knockout,” Ennis said after the fight. “I keep telling them my motto is I go in and out like a thief. I don’t get paid overtime.

“Clayton had his guard up while I was trying to penetrate his defenses with my right hook. He ducked and I caught him fair and square. I thought he was going to get up since he’s a tough guy and no one had ever knocked him out before, but I realized it was over when he went back down.”