Franklin Gonzalez vs Saul Sanchez (14-06-2023) Full Fight
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00:00 [ Sighs ]
00:01 -Okay, Janine, you know what time it is.
00:03 Janine, you need to fight hard, fight clean, touch him up.
00:07 -Main event of the evening.
00:09 Scheduled for 10 rounds.
00:11 Our tale of the team.
00:14 26-year-old Saul Sanchez
00:17 against 26-year-old Franklin Gonzalez,
00:20 who weighed in at 124.8,
00:23 and will have a slight reach advantage.
00:27 ♪♪
00:31 -Bail.
00:32 -Here we go!
00:34 It's time to fight.
00:36 Gonzalez in the white and gold trunks,
00:38 black and gold trunks for Sanchez.
00:43 -You know, both guys are listed at the same height,
00:45 and actually, Gonzalez is listed at a longer reach.
00:47 I don't think either of those are correct.
00:50 Sanchez looks to be taller and longer.
00:52 -Gonzalez is one of those guys, everybody's gonna be taller
00:54 than him at their three points.
00:55 -He throws with mean intentions, as both are --
00:57 Oof. -Oy!
00:59 -Good left hook upstairs.
01:01 -Power on display early from Franklin Gonzalez.
01:04 -Ooh! -Both of these guys
01:05 like to throw hard punches.
01:07 -And worthy of note,
01:09 this is the 21st professional bout for Sanchez.
01:12 He has never been stopped.
01:15 -Sanchez landed a beautiful counter right hand
01:17 right on the point of the chin that buckled him, yep.
01:21 These guys are throwing with bad intentions, both of them.
01:25 -Oh! -Oh!
01:26 -If that was on the chest, if he got that one up to the chin,
01:29 man, that could have been dangerous.
01:31 No set of punches thrown by these two guys.
01:32 These guys, all dynamite or nothing.
01:34 -Do not go get a beer right now.
01:36 This is not one of those fights.
01:38 Ooh.
01:39 -Doubling up with the left hook.
01:43 And both men coming off setbacks,
01:45 two for Gonzalez, both split decision,
01:48 and the split decision loss for Sanchez.
01:51 -I don't know if you guys at home can hear these shots.
01:54 Both of them are throwing heat and landing with real power.
01:57 -Yeah, no change-ups here, all fastballs.
01:59 -All fastballs.
02:01 All gas, no brakes, both these guys.
02:05 -Oh!
02:06 -You know, Gonzalez, he picks his punches really nice.
02:09 -Nice little counter on the inside with that left hand.
02:12 -Ay!
02:13 -Man, he is a powerful guy.
02:15 -No!
02:16 [ Indistinct shouting ]
02:23 -Gonzalez has a little bit more versatility, too,
02:24 with the head movement and whatnot.
02:26 He uses defense both blocking and slipping,
02:28 while Sanchez is kind of trying to block everything.
02:31 -He's just staying right in front.
02:32 And, oh, man.
02:34 And Gonzalez is really finding a home with those lead hooks,
02:37 leaping explosive shots.
02:39 -Gonzalez now lives in Denver,
02:42 spends some of his time training in Las Vegas.
02:47 -We talked about that with the keys to victory with Gonzalez,
02:49 how he has that upper-body rhythm.
02:51 When he fires off that, he can be really dangerous.
02:53 We're seeing that from the open.
02:56 -And, Chris, you made a comment
02:57 after yesterday's fighter meetings
02:59 that Gonzalez has a good attitude.
03:01 He's a fighter, but he's a humble kid, and he's nice.
03:04 -Oh, yeah, in the fighter meetings, you could tell
03:06 he was very, very humble, very happy to be here.
03:08 But he's a true fighter. He has the mentality.
03:10 You can see that in the way he has an aura in the ring.
03:13 He wants the bang.
03:15 -He's confident.
03:16 I'll tell you what, he's boxing well off that back foot,
03:18 letting Sanchez come to him.
03:19 Maybe Sanchez might be -- -10 seconds.
03:21 -Might be able to take up one of those keys
03:23 and go for a walk and let Gonzalez come to him, maybe.
03:26 -The only direction he's walking right now
03:27 is right at Gonzalez, and it's not working out.
03:30 -Yeah, Gonzalez being the guy that you catch him,
03:32 but then he hits you when you catch him.
03:34 [ Applause ]
03:36 -You're staying with one punch, and he's countering you.
03:42 You understand? You're dropping that left hand
03:43 right after the jab. You understand?
03:45 You can't do it. -Good muscle.
03:48 -Right after that, you stay low.
03:50 You got to jab up, jab down,
03:52 and then you go to the right,
03:53 and then you got to roll over. You understand?
03:55 You can't stay still.
03:56 -You say, "Ocupado o ocupado."
03:57 -Fix. Don't bring it up.
03:59 [ Speaking Spanish ]
04:01 -You told him, "Don't keep yourself occupied
04:14 when you're in front of him with that side-to-side movement."
04:18 -And he's done a good job of that.
04:19 It's both set up his offensive attack,
04:21 as you were saying, in the keys, champ,
04:23 and also allowed him to be slightly defensive.
04:25 [ Indistinct shouting ]
04:27 [ Bell dings ]
04:31 -Round number two.
04:33 White and gold trunks for Venezuela's
04:36 Franklin Gonzalez.
04:39 Saul Sanchez fighting out of the suburbs
04:43 of Los Angeles, California.
04:44 The Mexican in the black and gold trunks.
04:47 And you hear more heavy lighting.
04:50 And a nasty overcut to Alba.
04:53 -This is a firefight.
04:56 -Sanchez forcing Gonzalez back.
05:00 -Franklin Gonzalez.
05:02 Sanchez has some good inside timing, though, man.
05:06 -These guys are not having trouble fighting each other,
05:08 and they are landing bombs.
05:11 -We've got ourselves a fight!
05:14 [ Indistinct shouting ]
05:16 [ Indistinct shouting ]
05:18 [ Indistinct shouting ]
05:20 [ Indistinct shouting ]
05:22 -This is what Wednesday night fights
05:23 here on your boxing channel, Pro Box TV, is all about.
05:28 -Both men already starting to get marked up.
05:29 We've seen both men wobble,
05:31 both men hurt, landing big shots.
05:34 -The dynamite has gone off like crazy.
05:37 -They keep throwing like this.
05:39 The three of us are gonna get marked up.
05:41 -I thought I was jinxing it by saying
05:43 this was gonna be the fight of the night.
05:44 Thank God they're living up to it.
05:47 -Well, the bar has been raised very high,
05:49 but I think they're worthy of it.
05:51 [ Indistinct shouting ]
05:53 [ Indistinct shouting ]
05:55 -That's one thing I think Sanchez needs to do
05:57 is start to jab his way in.
05:58 He's not jabbing. He's following Gonzalez around,
06:01 but he's not using the jab to kind of disrupt
06:04 the rhythm of Gonzalez.
06:05 So Gonzalez gets to a nice little groove
06:07 and then punches at those different angles,
06:08 and Sanchez gets troubled.
06:10 But I tell you, when Sanchez punches in between,
06:12 I tell you, he's had some good success,
06:14 both in round one early with that right hand
06:16 he had early in the round,
06:17 before Gonzalez took over the remainder of the round,
06:19 and now earlier in this round as well.
06:21 -Yeah, he landed another one a few moments ago
06:22 with that straight right hand, but he throws it nice and short
06:24 and aims for the chin. He's had success.
06:28 -A make-or-break time
06:30 in the careers of Gonzalez and Sanchez.
06:33 -Geez.
06:35 One guy gets stung, and then he comes right back
06:37 and cracks the other one.
06:42 -Sanchez undoubtedly a game opponent.
06:44 11 of his 18 wins have been finishes.
06:48 -Yeah, I think Sanchez needs to use that jab more.
06:50 I mean, I think it would help him tremendously
06:53 in terms of breaking up the rhythm of Gonzalez.
06:55 Even when he's using it, he's just kind of placing it out there.
06:57 He needs to snap that jab out a little bit
06:59 and disrupt the rhythm of Gonzalez.
07:01 -Sanchez in the fighter meetings yesterday
07:02 said that he was going to be aggressive and go forward.
07:04 I was surprised that he said that.
07:06 I thought it was a little bit gamesmanship,
07:07 but it's not. He is going forward right in the front door,
07:10 not using that jab like I've seen him use in the past.
07:13 -Just missed with that big uppercut.
07:16 Right hand from Sanchez.
07:20 -Nice snappy shots there from Sanchez.
07:22 -Listen for the bell.
07:23 -There's that jab that you spoke about, champ.
07:26 -Yeah, and he needs to be more consistent because it --
07:28 -Oh! -No!
07:30 -Little boy, little boy Gonzalez
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08:02 [ Indistinct conversations ]
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08:34 -Get on him. Stop, stop, stop.
08:36 -Round three. -Keep it clean.
08:38 -Round three, both guys' faces look like
08:40 they've been 10 rounds.
08:43 -When I started to say "round three," Chris,
08:45 I was thinking, "Wow, round three?"
08:47 -Yeah. A lot of action in the first two.
08:50 -See, Gonzalez uses that snappy jab,
08:55 and what it does is it prevents Sanchez
08:58 from setting up any offense at all.
08:59 See, Sanchez sort of waits too long.
09:01 He snapped out a jab there, but see now,
09:03 you see what it forces Gonzalez to do,
09:05 forces Gonzalez to step over and start to reset.
09:07 If Sanchez can -- -Oh!
09:09 -Get right here. I mean, shh.
09:12 Ay, jeez.
09:13 -Sanchez has a win back in 2019
09:16 against a man we've seen here on Pro Box TV,
09:19 Brandon Benitez.
09:22 -You know, Benitez is a good fighter.
09:23 I like Benitez in every song.
09:25 -Yep.
09:26 -Oh!
09:28 -Oh!
09:31 -Emmanuel Flores at 14-0,
09:33 earned the split-decision 8-room victory...
09:36 -Good body shot. -...back in February
09:37 against Gonzalez.
09:38 -See, Sanchez gave a smile there.
09:41 -He's like, "Yeah, I got you."
09:42 He's shaking his head.
09:43 Yeah, these -- Yo, these guys like to fight.
09:45 They are rough.
09:47 Haven't seen a lot of body shots from either man,
09:51 but Sanchez landed a really good left hook
09:52 and seemed to take some of the wind
09:54 out of the sails of Gonzalez.
09:56 -Which was in your keys of victory there,
09:58 Paulie, for Sanchez.
10:00 Even though you've got a fire plug in Gonzalez in front of you,
10:02 you want to take that gas tank down a little bit.
10:05 -Yeah. -Been about a year to the date,
10:09 guys, since Sanchez lost the 10-round split decision
10:13 to Eros Correa.
10:17 -Another thing, once you can take the sails
10:18 out of his gas tank with the body shots,
10:19 it'll also make him not move as much, as well,
10:22 you know, with that head movement and whatnot.
10:24 'Cause as you get tired, start throwing stuff overboard,
10:26 stuff you won't use, you know?
10:27 And the things I prefer to start to go with
10:29 are the rhythmic stuff, you know?
10:30 'Cause you got to punch, so that'll go last.
10:32 -People don't think about how fainting and head movement
10:35 are actually tiring.
10:36 And if you're hurt to the body, like you said,
10:39 those are gonna go out the window.
10:42 -Sneaky little uppercut, but Sanchez starting to showcase
10:46 more of his offense as the fight continues.
10:49 -Double right-handed from Gonzalez.
10:51 Threw one over the top and then one straight.
10:53 Fell a little bit short.
10:54 -Again, for me, Sanchez should be jabbing there.
10:56 He doesn't jab.
10:57 He takes the hook for his trouble.
11:00 -I like how Gonzalez, even though there's not jabs
11:01 coming at him, he's using head movement
11:03 to mask his initial offense.
11:05 -And he uses his own jab off that rhythm.
11:08 -Aye.
11:09 Loads up on a big left hook when he rolls out.
11:12 -Just missed with the counter left hook.
11:17 -And you said it earlier, Champ.
11:18 Both men are very confident and still that way.
11:20 They're both very confident in what they're doing.
11:22 -Yeah, their body language both leads you to believe
11:25 that they still both feel --
11:26 they still have the winning mentality, both of them.
11:29 But Gonzalez getting off more shots.
11:31 -Time!
11:32 [ Cheers and applause ]
11:36 -I'm curious to see who's the first guy who's gonna bend.
11:38 -Yeah. -'Cause they're both --
11:40 they're both meeting right in the middle.
11:41 [ Crowd shouting ]
11:50 -Some heavy body shots.
11:53 -Yeah, we're talking about that body shot Sanchez landed.
11:56 [ Crowd shouting ]
11:58 Gonna see it coming up, I think.
12:00 -Right.
12:03 -That was the shot Gonzalez landed there.
12:05 That was a good body shot there.
12:06 That was the one where Sanchez looked for Gonzalez
12:08 and told him, "Yeah, yeah, I got you with that one."
12:11 -On your left side!
12:13 [ Crowd shouting ]
12:15 -Hey, hey. Relax, relax.
12:17 You understand?
12:19 [ Crowd shouting ]
12:21 -Take his out!
12:23 -Vic Storita, good Boston boy, good Southie.
12:27 [ Crowd shouting ]
12:29 Peter Welch, one of the famous boxing trainers,
12:32 used to always say, "And I know you know Peter as well, Chris.
12:36 Slip and rip. You got to slip and rip."
12:38 And we have seen that from Gonzalez
12:40 on frequent occasion early in this fight.
12:42 -Watch the power!
12:45 -More so in this fight than I've seen in his past.
12:47 He's really putting it together really nicely.
12:49 A lot of times, he'll move those shoulders and not throw.
12:52 Not tonight. He's just slipping and ripping.
12:54 -And smart feet, smart fighter,
12:56 is what Peter used to always tell me.
12:58 [ Crowd shouting ]
13:02 -Gonzalez fighting now with his hands down,
13:04 feeling himself, finding his rhythm.
13:07 -And when he says that, Chris, it makes me think
13:09 when Paulie gets fired up and says, "Youse guys."
13:12 Now it's in that same vernacular, right, Paulie?
13:14 -Similar, similar. -Similar.
13:17 Virtually identical, but not identical.
13:20 -Mm-hmm.
13:21 [ Crowd shouting ]
13:25 -A lot of movement by Gonzalez, as you guys talked about.
13:28 -But he's punching off the movement, you know?
13:29 And what it does to him is also it's preventing Sanchez
13:32 from getting off.
13:33 Because Sanchez is clearly the guy that has to be playing
13:34 to the punch, and he's not able to set himself
13:37 to throw off, get off enough punches
13:38 for me to win these rounds.
13:40 -Ooh, big left hook from Sanchez.
13:41 -And he does set himself. He gets off those shots,
13:43 but he's not getting a chance to set,
13:46 and the chance he's getting to set
13:47 are a few more in between.
13:48 And that's why I think if he can put Gonzalez
13:49 out of position with a jab...
13:51 -One, two, three.
13:53 -Knockdown. -Four.
13:55 -There's a straight right hand to the body
13:56 and the feet of Gonzalez can never hurt.
13:59 -The problem I have with that one is his back foot slid out.
14:01 So it was kind of -- it might be wet back there or something.
14:05 That wasn't -- that wasn't a --
14:07 I mean, that wasn't even a thing with a balance problem.
14:10 That was literally -- I think the canvas was wet there.
14:13 -I don't know, 'cause he has --
14:14 he's thrown a couple punches like that
14:15 where he had one foot off the ground
14:16 and kind of slid out.
14:18 'Cause he does that little bouncy movement.
14:21 -Well, see, now if it ends up coming to close --
14:23 Right now, I think Gonzalez is comfortably ahead,
14:24 'cause he's just -- he's finding more rhythmic shots
14:28 than is Sanchez, but, of course,
14:29 he's still got more than half the fight to go,
14:31 and he's burning a lot of energy.
14:32 See, I'll tell you one thing.
14:33 If anything, Sanchez at least conserving energy
14:35 and could come back to get an advantage later in the fight.
14:38 Who knows? -I mean, conserving,
14:40 yes, but he's also missing -- missing some of these shots,
14:42 'cause Gonzalez is being tricky.
14:43 But, yeah, he's definitely not putting out as much juice
14:47 as Gonzalez, who's moving, rolling his shoulders,
14:49 and throwing bombs.
14:51 -Before the fight almost a year ago
14:53 to the date against Korea,
14:55 Sanchez had a six-fight win streak,
14:57 and four of those wins were finishes.
15:01 So those were four of his 11 career wins by knockout.
15:05 -Right side of Gonzalez's face is starting to get busted up.
15:09 Outside the eye, above the eye, nose, a little bit of blood.
15:12 -Yeah, that's that left hook of Sanchez, right?
15:15 Maybe even the jab?
15:16 -Heavy jab from Gonzalez.
15:19 -He has caught him with a few left hooks,
15:21 but the right hand has had the most effect
15:23 when he lands them on the chin.
15:24 Ooh.
15:29 Ay, big left hook.
15:31 -That won't help the swelling.
15:32 -Yeah.
15:34 [ Applause ]
15:36 -You're only looking for one punch.
15:43 [ Speaking Spanish ]
15:45 How are we feeling?
15:50 -Hot. My eyes are good.
15:52 -Yeah, everything's good.
15:54 But don't look for one punch.
15:56 Listen, you got to get to that body a little bit more.
15:59 -Well, both these guys are going to know
16:00 they were in a fight tomorrow.
16:02 -Big shots, heavy shots landed by both men.
16:04 There we see a replay of the scored knockdown.
16:07 Let's see what -- We can see the feet here.
16:10 Gonzalez lands a right hand.
16:11 -Yeah, I think you're right there, champ.
16:13 That looked more like a slip.
16:14 -I mean, there was a punch on the end.
16:15 You know, he did go down on the end of a punch,
16:17 but it seemed like his leg slid out.
16:18 -Slipped out.
16:20 [ Whistle blows ]
16:21 -Stick is out.
16:23 -That was a little bit of a better angle to see
16:24 from where we're sitting.
16:27 And there wasn't a complaint from Gonzalez either,
16:29 which kind of threw a wrench a little bit, yeah.
16:32 -The battle continues.
16:36 Round number 5, 25-2,
16:39 Franklin Gonzalez in the white and gold trunks,
16:42 black and gold trunks for 26-year-old Saul Sanchez.
16:47 Mike Goldberg, "The Magic Man," Paulie Molinaggi,
16:50 Chris Algieri, glad to be with you.
16:51 Wednesday night fights on your boxing channel, ProBoxTV.
16:57 And, Chris, I want to borrow your crystal ball
16:58 after the show,
17:00 'cause fight of the night prediction on this one,
17:02 I think you're nailing it, brother.
17:03 -Yeah, I do my homework, man.
17:05 I've been watching these guys all week.
17:08 -Oof, a good, sharp, hard right hand from Gonzalez.
17:11 [ Indistinct shouting ]
17:16 -Sanchez has landed effectively, as well.
17:20 Right on cue, made me look good there, guys.
17:22 -Sharp counter, right hand by Sanchez.
17:24 Good timing shot.
17:25 You know, Gonzalez sometimes has a tendency
17:26 to kind of jump in there,
17:28 and he looked like he kind of jumped in with that jab.
17:30 And right over the top came Sanchez.
17:33 Good timing shot. -Yeah, timed it nice.
17:34 He punched right across the shoulders.
17:38 -Sanchez, instead of Gonzalez, he waits a lot.
17:40 He's a counter puncher.
17:42 To win, Sanchez told us, "He's just got to be me.
17:45 Just got to be himself, put the pressure on him,
17:47 and go to the body."
17:49 -You sure Sanchez wasn't talking about himself?
17:50 -Yeah, I was going to say, that sounds more like himself.
17:52 And, actually, Gonzalez hasn't been waiting on anything.
17:54 He's moving, firing all night long.
17:56 -And, so, Sanchez has landed some good shots
17:57 in between Gonzalez here and there in this fight,
17:59 including that counter right hand earlier in the round,
18:02 and even a few times earlier in this fight.
18:04 Since, again, it's been too few and far between,
18:06 but when he's gotten those shots in between,
18:08 they've landed beautifully.
18:11 -Both the left hand and the right hand from Sanchez.
18:13 He's timed them really well.
18:14 -Good combination a moment ago by Saul Sanchez.
18:19 -You know what I like about Sanchez,
18:20 even though he's had some trouble
18:22 finding Gonzalez at times, he's never lost interest.
18:25 He's never got discouraged by the shots.
18:28 He's just waiting for his shot.
18:29 -Yeah, yeah, and he's consistently brought
18:31 that pressure, so that's at least caused mental stress
18:34 on Gonzalez, make Gonzalez feel like he's got to fight
18:36 his way out of trouble constantly,
18:38 and that can wear him out later in the fight.
18:39 Who knows? We'll see.
18:40 -Yeah, Gonzalez seems to be in fantastic shape,
18:41 but we're only in the fifth round.
18:44 Still a lot more fight to go.
18:47 -These men know each other,
18:49 have been in the same training facility together,
18:51 spartan a little bit.
18:55 Franklin said, and I quote, "He needs to know about me.
18:58 I don't need to know about him."
19:01 30 seconds, round five.
19:04 Tenth 10-rounder scheduled for Franklin Gonzalez.
19:10 He has gone the distance once.
19:12 That was a split decision setback
19:15 in February of last year.
19:17 Final seconds of the fifth.
19:24 -Oh, good counter shot there by Gonzalez,
19:26 and followed up with an uppercut of his own,
19:29 I mean, an uppercut and a combination of his own.
19:32 -For a guy with 25 wins, by the way, a knockout,
19:35 I mean, he's got some nice boxing skills as well.
19:37 -Good rhythm.
19:39 -Good reaction by Christopher Young at the end, too.
19:42 He blocked that punch.
19:43 [ Indistinct conversations ]
19:45 [ Bell dings ]
19:47 [ Indistinct conversations ]
19:49 [ Speaking Spanish ]
19:51 [ Indistinct conversations ]
19:53 [ Whistle blows ]
19:55 [ Speaking Spanish ]
19:57 [ Speaking Spanish ]
19:59 [ Indistinct conversations ]
20:01 [ Speaking Spanish ]
20:03 -You're asking Gonzalez to see how things change
20:06 when you fight off your rhythm.
20:07 Just keep fighting off that rhythm.
20:09 -There we see that beautiful counter shot
20:14 from Sanchez over the top.
20:15 Beautiful timing, and Gonzalez is moving to his left --
20:18 his right earlier moved to his left.
20:20 Soon as he changed direction, Sanchez had him lined up
20:22 and caught him with that right hand.
20:24 -And also, he came in high.
20:25 Gonzalez usually does a good job of staying low, came up high,
20:28 and it was easy to find him over the top of that shot.
20:31 [ Bell dings ]
20:32 -Kipa and I on no pun intended on the eye of Saul Sanchez.
20:38 Lot of swelling. He talked to his corner about it.
20:41 After round number 5, round 6,
20:46 25-2, Franklin Gonzalez, 18-2, Saul Sanchez.
20:51 [ Crowd shouting ]
20:53 And again, we get ourselves a firefight.
20:56 [ Crowd shouting ]
20:59 -Sanchez. -Mental pressure that Sanchez
21:01 has started to -- was putting on earlier
21:03 now is starting to pay some dividends.
21:05 He's consistently going after Gonzalez,
21:07 and Gonzalez now making wider defensive moves
21:10 that are putting him in a position to get hit.
21:13 -And again, Sanchez has never been stopped.
21:17 Gonzalez has never been stopped.
21:22 And he's never won a fight that went the distance.
21:25 25 wins, 25 knockouts. -Ooh.
21:28 -Body shot followed up by the left.
21:30 -I think that body shot might have affected Gonzalez.
21:32 -It stopped him for a second, didn't it, Chris?
21:34 -Whoa!
21:36 -What a high jump.
21:38 -4, 5, 6, 7,
21:42 8. Walk to me, baby.
21:44 -That started with the body shot.
21:45 -All right. Box. -It was a right hand
21:46 to the body and then caught him in the middle
21:48 with the left hook.
21:49 There's an overhand right for good measure.
21:51 -Now Sanchez pushing forward.
21:54 -Oh, body shot again. -Down he goes again.
21:57 -Body shots are different. This could be it.
21:59 -5, 6, 7, 8. -And we saw him, yeah.
22:03 -We'll continue. Walk that way.
22:06 Come to me. Listen, one more knockdown.
22:08 You can face over. Box.
22:11 -Body shot.
22:13 What we talked about. He goes to the body again.
22:16 -That one is a touch low,
22:18 but the cup is starting to come up.
22:21 Sanchez has a great opportunity here.
22:23 -Yeah, it's been a long time.
22:25 Gonzalez and I have to find deceptive ways
22:28 to survive this round.
22:31 -It was that 3-second delay with the body shot,
22:34 Paulie and Chris, that we always talk about.
22:37 With Gonzalez and Sanchez seized the moment.
22:39 -Oh, that was it. -Down he goes again.
22:41 And it is all over.
22:43 Sol Sanchez finishes Franklin Gonzalez.
22:48 -Wow, and Gonzalez, you know what?
22:49 Even he knows. You know what?
22:51 The referee told me three times that I'm done.
22:52 -Yeah, but he wasn't going to get him anyway.
22:53 -And you know what, man? This was it.
22:56 Spit out the mouthpiece and everything.
22:57 I mean, I think -- You know, you got to credit Sanchez.
23:00 We can criticize him for not getting off enough shots.
23:02 He was processing everything.
23:04 When he was getting -- That timing early in the fight,
23:08 you saw it here and there,
23:09 but it wasn't nearly enough to win the rounds, right?
23:11 And then you started seeing it more and more and more
23:13 as he was processing.
23:14 He was starting to get off more shots in between Gonzalez.
23:16 That last body shot knockdown, the one that ended the fight,
23:19 again, was just as Gonzalez was throwing.
23:21 Slip, counter to the body.
23:23 I mean, Sanchez built up to this.
23:25 You got to give him credit.
23:26 Because even I wasn't seeing it, and I was saying,
23:28 "You know, he's got to get off more shots."
23:29 But really, Sanchez was seeing exactly what he wanted to see,
23:32 and he knew he was going to start upping the pace
23:35 as he saw the openings fit to be thrown at.
23:38 -Here, we're going to see all three.
23:40 The one that started all the trouble
23:41 was a straight right hand, very, very short.
23:43 You saw Gonzalez stay, I think, an extra beat down there.
23:45 I saw that he was hurt, and then there's a left hook.
23:48 That was a good shot, too. -Yeah, they got the same shot there.
23:49 -But it's right in the middle, like you said.
23:51 Oof, right underneath the elbow
23:52 as he's throwing his right hand a little bit wide.
23:55 Here's the second knockdown.
23:58 Straight right hand, and then that's a left hook
23:59 right around the elbow.
24:01 Nasty, nasty shot.
24:02 And especially once he's already been hit to the body and down.
24:04 -Yeah, now he's trying to recover.
24:05 -Then you hit him right in the middle of the punch.
24:08 And Gonzalez just got up.
24:09 You could have gave him a 35 count.
24:10 He wasn't beating that.
24:12 -And again, a good timing shot in that last one.
24:15 Again, Sanchez, the concentration
24:17 to start to lead more
24:19 as he realized he was seeing the openings
24:20 and also stay on those counters
24:22 that he was seeing earlier in the fight.
24:24 -Great fight. Back-and-forth action.
24:26 Gonzalez put up a great fight up until that point.
24:29 Sanchez, like you said, processing everything,
24:31 looking for his spots, chipping away, chipping away.
24:35 Awesome, awesome fight.
24:36 -So, Sanchez never got stopped.
24:39 You jinxed him. -I know.
24:41 -I mean, Gonzalez never got stopped.
24:42 -That's right. I jinxed him.
24:44 Sanchez, though, he said to win.
24:47 -Thank God I didn't jinx the fight, though.
24:48 It was a good fight. -Go to the body.
24:49 Yeah. You did pick the fight.
24:50 -I mean, I think you said it in the last round, too.
24:52 Did you say that? -I did. Yes.
24:54 -The second round, you said he never got stopped.
24:56 The guy got stopped with three knockdowns.
24:59 -30 seconds later, the fight's over.
25:00 -So it's kind of my fault. -I'm not gonna tell him.
25:02 I won't tell him if you don't tell him.
25:04 He hits hard. Don't tell him, please.
25:06 [ Crowd shouting ]
25:09 I'll tell you what.
25:10 What a spectacular main event of the evening.
25:13 Both men with ill intentions.
25:15 -These guys started guns blazing from round number one.
25:18 Gonzalez looked like to be the slicker guy.
25:20 He was landing some big shots at Guse,
25:22 champ Sanchez biding his time, analyzing, taking big shots.
25:25 He looked like he could have been in trouble at times.
25:27 There we see Clippen Gonzalez,
25:28 early hurting him with that straight right hand,
25:30 punching with Gonzalez.
25:32 And then he started to time him a little bit.
25:34 A little bit here, a little bit there.
25:35 Sanchez saw him smiling when he landed that left hook
25:37 to the liver, knew he had him there.
25:39 That was really the difference,
25:40 was I think the body work from Sanchez.
25:41 That was the one thing Gonzalez was not able to do
25:43 all night long.
25:44 Sanchez was able to capitalize and build on the body work.
25:46 -And it's subtle. The body work is subtle.
25:48 It stayed -- Two shots in the bank, it's subtle,
25:51 and they were all so precise.
25:53 I mean, Sanchez doesn't even have to throw them so hard.
25:55 -That wasn't a hard shot at all.
25:56 -You just throw them precise.
25:57 And as the fight weighs on, they have more and more effect
26:00 'cause you already have a naturally tiring fighter.
26:02 The guy like Gonzalez fights at a high rhythm,
26:04 moving all over the place and everything.
26:06 So you start touching him a little bit to the body.
26:07 Those body shots by the mid-round
26:08 are starting to affect him,
26:09 and we saw what the results were.
26:11 -Great main event to make it official.
26:17 Here is Mark Lichtenfeld.
26:19 -Ladies and gentlemen, this bout comes to a halt at 2 minutes,
26:23 3 seconds of the 6th round due to the three-knockdown rule.
26:28 Your winner by technical knockout,
26:30 el ganador por knockout tecnico, Saul "The Beast" Sanchez!
26:41 [ Cheers and applause ]
26:43 -Big win for Sanchez, the first man to finish,
26:49 Franklin Gonzalez, who truly came out.
26:53 Guns a-blazin', Sanchez weathered the storm,
26:57 then he started to get into his head.