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00:00 Gentlemen, expect a tough, clean fight tonight.
00:03 Protect yourselves at all times and listen to my command.
00:06 Let's touch 'em up.
00:08 - Third fight in the U.S. for Omar Aguilar,
00:11 second fight for Julio Luna on American soil.
00:15 Omar Aguilar, you saw the graphic,
00:17 87% of his knockouts within the first two rounds.
00:22 That's 15 knockouts in the first round,
00:24 six knockouts in the second,
00:26 three knockouts in the third for 24 out of 25 wins
00:31 before the final bell.
00:33 - Oh, shoot, this about to be in scrap.
00:36 - Absolutely.
00:36 What'd you think I brought you back for?
00:38 (laughing)
00:40 - Aguilar and Luna, they some bad boys.
00:43 They can fight.
00:44 - You remember the fight that Aguilar had
00:46 with Lindolfo Delgado.
00:47 They went at it for 24 minutes, that eight-round fight.
00:51 They did not disappoint.
00:52 They both came in unbeaten.
00:54 Aguilar left with the first loss on his record,
00:58 but not without making it a scrap
01:00 against the undefeated Olympian, Lindolfo Delgado.
01:02 - See, but Aguilar, he slowed things down a bit
01:05 because that was his problem.
01:06 He came in aggressive, overly aggressive,
01:09 and you saw the boxer and the counterpunching ability
01:11 take an effect on him against Delgado.
01:14 But now he's starting to take his time
01:17 and trying to set up his offense off his jab.
01:20 - Two big boys, five foot 11.
01:24 - For welterweights.
01:26 - Oh, yes.
01:27 - And they can pop.
01:28 Nice hip jab from Aguilar.
01:30 Stops, yeah, Aguilar stops doing it in his tracks.
01:34 - You're starting to see all the redness already.
01:37 You know, some fighters,
01:38 they just have really sensitive skin.
01:41 You know, when they get tagged,
01:43 they just immediately start swelling, swelling up.
01:46 I know back in the days, man,
01:48 I was reading the other day, man,
01:49 that older fighters used to soak up the sweat
01:53 and they used to soak their face in beef brine.
01:56 Beef brine, literally.
01:57 Soak their face in beef brine
01:58 to toughen their skin up, man.
02:00 And they used to also chew on sap from pine trees.
02:07 - Sap?
02:09 - Yes, from pine trees to strengthen their jaws.
02:10 - Interesting.
02:11 - Break, break.
02:12 - Break clean now.
02:13 - Some just use their head as a battering ram.
02:17 (laughing)
02:18 I read about that stuff.
02:22 - One of the coldest weapons in boxing, man.
02:24 - Ooh, that was a low blow from Luna.
02:26 Aguilar lands over the top, though.
02:28 The quick hands of Luna
02:31 are gonna be a problem for Aguilar.
02:34 - Yeah, it is.
02:35 He's always in good position.
02:37 All starts with your feet.
02:38 Then also, he's not loading up with his shots.
02:41 He's just throwing them from right where they are.
02:43 And he knows how to get off the line, that left hook.
02:46 Just pay attention to that left hook,
02:48 that right hand of, I'm gonna say, Aguilar,
02:51 inching a little bit forward.
02:52 And when he shoots his jab, he drops his back hand.
02:55 See that left hook coming?
02:57 Tell him.
02:57 That was a temp right there from Luna,
03:00 just a little bit off the mark.
03:02 There it is again.
03:03 He sees it, I see it.
03:05 Yeah, that's what I was talking about,
03:12 getting a little bit over yourself.
03:14 Getting too overly aggressive, over commits like that,
03:17 falls short with a shot.
03:18 Fighters, we hate when that happens.
03:20 When that happens, we feel like we are so exposed.
03:22 And when you don't make the fighter that misses like that,
03:25 you don't make them pay, you let them off.
03:28 Clean slate.
03:28 Don't let them off.
03:30 - Xander Taez is proud to be from Puerto Rico
03:32 and looks to bring the people of the island together
03:34 like some of his Boricua boxing idols have in the past.
03:37 - Being Puerto Rican means the world.
03:44 It feels amazing to wake up every morning and say,
03:48 man, I'm a Puerto Rican fighter.
03:50 They are behind me, they support me.
03:53 They want me to bring glory to Puerto Rico.
03:56 And I wanna do the same.
03:57 I want to unite all those families
03:59 like Tito Trinidad united them, like Miguel Cotto.
04:03 - Super welterweight champion of the world.
04:06 - He looks up to Miguel Cotto, to Felix Trinidad,
04:09 but he doesn't compare himself to them.
04:11 He just wants to be Xander Taez
04:13 and bring glory to the island
04:14 the same way that those fighters do.
04:16 - Go second!
04:18 - Come on, second round, second round, stay back.
04:21 Julio, second round, stay back.
04:23 - Nothing like the Mexico-Puerto Rico rivalry.
04:28 And tonight, this young man will partake in that.
04:31 And he's used to being,
04:34 his dream is to fight on Puerto Rican Day weekend
04:36 in New York. - Yes.
04:37 - And tonight he's fighting
04:38 a Mexico-Puerto Rico rivalry
04:41 as the enemy in enemy territory.
04:44 But he's a heck of a fighter.
04:46 But that's all right. - Absolutely.
04:47 - That's all right, you gotta be able to take it all.
04:49 It don't matter, take it as it comes, you know?
04:51 I think he's gonna do well tonight.
04:53 He is, again, he's matched up.
04:55 He's fighting a fighter that has 20 KOs.
04:58 Now, 20 KOs, now top ranked matchmakers
05:01 has kept him away from punchers,
05:03 but tonight he's facing a real puncher in the division.
05:06 A veteran puncher.
05:08 - Yes, a puncher who has 21 wins as a pro
05:11 and 20 have come by way of knockout.
05:14 Any mistake, any of those bad habits show up tonight,
05:18 it could be costly for the young fighter out of Puerto Rico
05:23 who fights out of the state of Florida nowadays.
05:26 - But the thing is is that,
05:28 typically with fighters like Xander,
05:30 the better the competition, they raise their game.
05:34 - Break clean, break.
05:35 - Their game gets better, you know, no doubt about it.
05:37 So I know he's gonna be on point tonight.
05:39 - And he admitted that.
05:40 He says, "I like these challenges
05:42 "because they make me focus,
05:43 "because they bring out the best in me."
05:45 And you know, that's what you want.
05:47 You can get a little bit lackadaisical,
05:50 you can get a little bit complacent
05:52 and you cannot do that in this sport.
05:54 And tonight he's gotta be sharp.
05:55 - Yes, he is.
05:57 Yes, he does and yes, I think he will.
05:59 - Still trying to find their sharpness are Aguilar
06:05 wearing the black trunks trimmed in,
06:07 or actually the white trunks trimmed in black
06:09 and Luna who's got the Mexican colors on his black trunks.
06:13 Nice left uppercut from Luna.
06:15 And in the corner of Luna, they were telling him,
06:20 "Look, Aguilar is gonna come in and lunge
06:23 "and that's where you have your opportunities."
06:25 Exactly the same thing you saw, Tim,
06:27 at the end of the last round.
06:29 - Yeah, you know, he--
06:30 - Ooh, that's a nice right though from Aguilar.
06:32 - He doesn't recognize or understand distance.
06:34 That's what happens when fighters lunge forward.
06:37 They're looking to make contact
06:39 and the contact is not there
06:40 and that's when the lunge happens.
06:42 And he leaves his feet behind.
06:44 So his upper body moves forward first
06:47 and then the feet follow.
06:48 So, you know, I'm used to that.
06:50 That was me.
06:51 I wasn't really too good with distance, I'm not gonna lie.
06:54 And I got a big head so I leaned forward as well.
06:56 So when I would rush in, my feet would come second
07:01 instead of my feet moving with my upper body
07:04 at the same time.
07:05 - Interesting.
07:08 Nice left uppercut from Luna.
07:09 Doings well on the inside.
07:12 Getting a little bit wide
07:14 with those left hooks on the inside.
07:16 Aguilar needs to shorten those punches up.
07:20 And Aguilar doesn't look as sharp
07:21 as he looked the last time I seen him out, you know.
07:24 He's been out of range for some time.
07:28 Hasn't been active.
07:29 [bell dings]
07:31 - Stop!
07:35 - I'll translate the corners for you.
07:37 Starting with Luna's.
07:39 Miguel Vasquez, not a titer that Tim Bradley fought.
07:45 - No.
07:46 Give me some water.
07:48 - You're doing it.
07:53 You're doing well with your left.
07:55 When you move out, he's gonna keep lunging.
07:59 It's gonna get easier for you.
08:00 He's gonna fall into you.
08:01 And you just gotta step back and counter.
08:04 One shot at a time.
08:05 You gotta land those uppercuts.
08:09 Hey, we got eight rounds, come on.
08:13 You gotta start jabbing.
08:17 You lost the first two rounds.
08:19 [whistle blows]
08:23 You gotta feint.
08:24 But don't take too long in engaging.
08:26 Don't take too long in closing the gap.
08:32 Those were the instructions from his father,
08:33 Omar Aguilar Sr., who was a fighter himself.
08:37 They come from a boxing family.
08:38 He's El Pollo Aguilar, Omar.
08:40 His brother, Ruben Poyito Aguilar, also boxes.
08:43 On the other side, El Canelito Julio Luna,
08:46 his sister, Yulian, is the WBC champion at 122 pounds.
08:51 His other sister, Wendy, is 4'1" and 1" as a pro.
08:55 So you talk about boxing families here.
08:57 We gotta headbutt here.
08:59 - I understand you're doing something.
09:00 But break clean.
09:01 Understand.
09:03 Go!
09:04 - Our first fight, when we move over to ESPN,
09:09 at the conclusion of this fight at 10 p.m. Eastern,
09:12 will be Emiliano "El General" Fernando Vargas,
09:17 putting his unbeaten record on the line
09:20 in the same building where his father,
09:21 El Feroz Fernando Vargas,
09:23 once sold out against Raymond Jovan.
09:27 So you don't wanna miss that momentarily
09:30 when we move over to ESPN.
09:32 - That's where Luna doesn't wanna be.
09:34 He wants to keep the fight in the center of the ring.
09:36 He has the better legs and the better fundamentals.
09:39 You know, when he gets against that ropes,
09:40 he's stuck in place.
09:42 And you saw right there, Aguilar getting off,
09:45 letting combinations fly.
09:46 Luna squared up on those ropes.
09:49 (crowd chattering)
09:52 That's a left hook from Aguilar.
10:09 Luna countering with an uppercut.
10:11 Look at Luna, slippery in there, man.
10:16 Slippery.
10:18 - Using the ropes to create some distance for himself
10:21 to avoid some of those shots coming,
10:23 those wide shots coming from Aguilar.
10:25 - But Aguilar landed a nice right uppercut,
10:27 probably the shortest shot he's thrown all night,
10:30 and it landed.
10:31 But Luna uses the ropes well.
10:33 - Yes.
10:34 - Low blow warning for Omar Aguilar.
10:39 Luna tells the referee without saying a word,
10:43 "Get out of the way, we wanna fight."
10:47 - Lee Rogers likes to be in the action, the referee.
10:51 - Yeah, I mean, you know, I had a brief conversation
10:55 with him about that turning from the--
10:58 - Jermaine Ortiz fight. - The last fight
11:00 with Jermaine Ortiz.
11:02 And he said, well, he was turning, he wasn't holding him,
11:04 he was turning him and then he was releasing him.
11:07 And then he was firing combinations, Tim.
11:10 And I said, "Okay, all right, that's what you saw.
11:12 "Hey, you're the closest man to the action, all right."
11:16 - Let him go, let him go, let him go.
11:18 - Oh, that's a headbutt.
11:22 - That was a headbutt and a rabbit punch behind the head.
11:25 No doubt about it.
11:26 - Yellow.
11:35 - 10 seconds. - Featherweight
11:36 championship fight.
11:37 Joey Gonzalez challenging Luis Alberto Venado Lopez,
11:40 who's standing by with our own Mark Kregel.
11:44 You're a big favorite, he's been here before.
11:47 Who has more pressure tonight?
11:49 (speaking in foreign language)
11:54 - Definitely the pressure is on me.
12:06 This is (speaking in foreign language)
12:08 It's the Mexican date.
12:09 So the whole Mexico is in my shoulders.
12:11 It's for my family, it's for Mexicali.
12:13 So I know the pressure is on me, but I feel comfortable.
12:15 I've been in big stages before.
12:17 - You're not on the road this time.
12:19 This state has usually been for Canelo, for De La Hoya.
12:23 Did you think you'd be here?
12:24 (speaking in foreign language)
12:30 - Never in a million years I imagined I would be here.
12:36 But now I'm here and it's my time.
12:38 So I'm not gonna let this moment go by.
12:42 - But you've seen yourself beating champions in England,
12:46 challengers in Ireland.
12:48 What enables you to do that?
12:50 (speaking in foreign language)
12:56 - When you study, when you have the mindset,
13:02 when you have the work, it's nothing but confidence.
13:05 I know what I have to do.
13:06 - Listen, Jowette Gonzalez is a really,
13:08 really tough, experienced guy.
13:10 You say you wanna be the first to take him out.
13:13 Is that talk or you think you're gonna do it?
13:16 (speaking in foreign language)
13:20 - My mindset, it's set to knock him out.
13:29 If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.
13:30 I'm still gonna win,
13:31 but I'm going out there to get the knockout.
13:33 - Thank you very much, champ.
13:34 Bernardo.
13:35 - Now we got some good action here in the ring
13:37 between Luna and Aguilar, finally going at it here,
13:40 letting their hands go, Tim.
13:42 - Yeah, Aguilar now finally fighting
13:44 with direction and purpose.
13:46 He came out with vengeance in this round.
13:48 I'm sure his corner told him that,
13:50 "Hey, man, you're falling behind on the scorecards.
13:52 You're getting outboxed."
13:53 - That was another headbutt there from Julio Luna.
13:57 Aguilar keeps feeling those headbutts,
13:59 but keeps coming forward.
14:01 It's changing uppercuts on the inside.
14:06 The moment Aguilar started to shorten up his shots,
14:08 he became more effective.
14:10 - Yes.
14:11 - Because that's what Luna's been doing all night,
14:12 being shorter and faster to the punch.
14:14 - Plus, you gotta find your right range.
14:16 You know, Aguilar was getting too close.
14:19 He was smothering his punches,
14:21 and a lot of the punches were winging
14:23 going over the top of Luna.
14:25 So now he found his right range,
14:27 and so he's able to land his shots now.
14:28 See, that's what I'm talking about right there.
14:31 See the shot that go over the head?
14:33 When he gets the range right, he's pretty effective,
14:36 but he gets a little bit too close.
14:39 That's when he's ineffective.
14:40 - And then Luna becomes effective
14:42 because he goes right up the gut.
14:43 - Well, Luna is technically better.
14:46 His punches are more compact and in close.
14:51 And again, he doesn't load up with his punches.
14:52 He just throws them from right where they are.
14:55 - Both guys lost in August of 2022.
14:59 Aguilar to Lindolfo Delgado.
15:01 That same night, it was Julio Luna
15:03 losing to Giovanni Santillan,
15:05 and they both got a knockout since then.
15:09 But tonight, they're both stepping it back up
15:11 in terms of level of opposition.
15:14 - Brace! Break clean.
15:17 - Oh, he put a snot rocket on him.
15:18 - I was gonna say, if you can't hurt him with a punch,
15:20 you're gonna blow your nose on him.
15:23 Hey, back in the COVID days, that was assault.
15:26 - Yeah, but you don't want to do that,
15:27 especially when you've been there fighting inside the ring
15:30 'cause then those eyes will start swelling up on you.
15:32 You take getting punches, you get hit flush on the eyes,
15:35 they'll start swelling up on you.
15:37 - You see that right eye of Aguilar
15:39 starting to swell up a little bit,
15:40 and the left on the outside part of the cheekbone.
15:45 Luna just ducks his head and throws.
15:47 - Home run. Both guys looking for the home run.
15:52 - Four rounds in the books.
15:54 [upbeat music]
15:57 - Thank you, Hector.
15:59 ♪
16:01 - Hey, we need more from you.
16:03 ♪
16:08 ♪
16:12 - I like it.
16:13 - Take a deep breath.
16:14 - I like it.
16:16 ♪
16:21 [speaking Spanish]
16:23 - Hey, when he lunges, you need to box him.
16:25 Remember, if he throws a wide right hand,
16:27 you counter with the right uppercut.
16:29 [speaking Spanish]
16:31 He's gonna start to throw those long shots.
16:33 You're gonna use your waist.
16:35 Use your head movement.
16:37 We're going to the fifth round.
16:39 You think I won all four?
16:41 You've won three, probably three to one right now.
16:44 - We need this round, Julio.
16:50 - What does it tell you when a fighter asks the corner,
16:54 "Are they winning the round?"
16:56 What does it tell you?
16:57 - Yeah, what do you think when you hear that in the corner?
16:59 - Well, I've been a fighter, and I've asked my corner,
17:02 "Am I winning the round?"
17:03 Because you feel that you might be easy, you know, edging it,
17:07 but you need your corner to tell you, to reassure you,
17:09 like, "Hey, you did win that last round, or you didn't?
17:12 "Are you winning the fight?"
17:13 'Cause I used to come back and be like, "Juul, I'm winning.
17:15 "Am I winning?" He'd be like, "Yeah, you winning.
17:16 "You winning. You winning."
17:17 He's like, "Keep doing what you're doing, though," you know?
17:19 And then there's times where he won't tell me.
17:21 He'll be like, "Hey, we need to pick it up.
17:23 "We need to pick it up."
17:24 - But he never told you you were losing?
17:25 - No. No, I mean, no.
17:26 Juul would tell me if I'm losing.
17:27 He would just say, "Hey, baby, we're behind a little bit.
17:29 "You gotta pick it up."
17:30 He'll tell me. There's no doubt about it.
17:32 Yeah.
17:33 But that--that was--that wasn't that often.
17:37 - Oh, come on.
17:38 - That wasn't that often, baby.
17:40 [laughing]
17:41 That wasn't that often. Just saying.
17:44 - You come back asking, "You think I got him?"
17:48 - Yeah. Yeah.
17:49 So--so--so, you know, communicate with your--
17:52 - Watch your head on the line. Watch your head on the line.
17:54 - Train a trainer is extremely important.
17:56 - Break! Break! Break!
17:57 - After the first round, I will come back,
17:58 and I'll be like, "Hey."
18:00 He'll be like, "Hey, tell me. Tell me what's up."
18:02 And I'll be like, "Hey, this boy is bad."
18:05 Or I'll be like, "Hey, he got power."
18:07 Or I'll be like, "He's fast."
18:08 And then he'll guide me after that.
18:10 But I tell him what I'm seeing
18:12 and what's going on inside the ring.
18:14 - And more importantly, what you were feeling.
18:15 'Cause a lot of times it's like,
18:16 "I felt his speed. I felt his power.
18:18 I felt his movement," whatever, you know,
18:19 'cause you get a feel for it in there.
18:21 - Yeah, when I was fighting Marquez,
18:22 and Marquez landed an uppercut on me,
18:24 I said, "Oh, my gosh."
18:25 I said, "What did he just hit me with?" Right?
18:28 So I go back to the corner, and Joel goes,
18:30 "Talk to me, baby."
18:31 I go--I go, "He's solid."
18:32 He's like, "Okay, we gotta take our time with him.
18:35 "We gotta break him down here.
18:36 You gotta keep moving. Don't stand still."
18:38 - And then the game plan unfolded.
18:39 - Break! Break! Break and clean.
18:40 Break and clean. Break and clean.
18:41 - Aguilar landed a nice right on the chin of Luna.
18:45 - You know what I said when I came back to the corner
18:48 after the different Alexander?
18:50 - What'd you say?
18:51 - First round.
18:52 - I got him.
18:53 - No. - What'd you say?
18:54 - I said, "He weak as hell."
18:55 [laughter]
18:57 - Was that in Detroit, or where was it?
18:59 - That was at the--yeah, Detroit.
19:00 That was at-- - Superdome?
19:01 - Yeah. Oh, that was--no, I don't even wanna call it
19:03 a Superdome. Terrible zone.
19:05 [laughter]
19:06 Superdome. Terrible zone.
19:08 - That was blurry from Luna.
19:09 Aguilar throws the harder punches,
19:11 and Luna throws the shorter, more accurate.
19:14 [indistinct chatter]
19:17 - But Luna uses that head.
19:20 He must have gone to the Tim Bradley School of Boxing.
19:23 - Come on, man.
19:24 Luna don't even have a head like me.
19:26 - No, but he knows how to use it.
19:27 - I got an excuse, man.
19:28 You know my head is-- - Top heavy?
19:30 - Yeah. Yes, and you see my legs.
19:32 I got them little pencil legs.
19:34 I skipped--well, I skipped a--
19:35 - Oh, nice right hand from Aguilar.
19:37 You skipped leg day? - Yes, absolutely.
19:39 - But God gave you some big old feet to balance you out.
19:42 - Oh, that's a nice jab from Aguilar.
19:45 [loud tapping]
19:46 - 10 seconds to go. - Ooh, slap.
19:49 - Here we go.
19:50 This is what we expected from the jump,
19:52 and we're getting it five rounds in.
19:55 [bell dings]
19:56 - Stop!
19:57 [cheers and applause]
20:00 - We need more.
20:10 We need more.
20:12 This round, he stole it from you at the end.
20:14 Come on.
20:16 You did so well, and then you let him take it from you.
20:20 You gotta switch things up on him.
20:22 We don't wanna lose this fight.
20:23 Come on.
20:25 Come on, we came here to win.
20:27 Come on, you gotta go in.
20:33 Are you gonna go or not?
20:36 You gotta throw punches, man.
20:37 Nothing's gonna happen.
20:39 [loud tapping]
20:42 [speaking Spanish]
20:44 - You've got the punch.
20:45 You've got the punch and power.
20:46 You can take his shot.
20:47 He's not doing anything to you,
20:49 but you gotta be confident about throwing your shots.
20:52 - Six, six.
20:54 Stay back. Stay back for me.
20:56 - Very candid instructions in both corners, Tim.
20:59 On the one side, they were telling Aguilar,
21:01 "You're taking his shots, but you have to go after him,"
21:04 and on the other side of Luna,
21:07 they were saying, "You lost that last round.
21:10 You gave it away last minute, so you can't afford to do that."
21:13 - Yeah, I mean, Aguilar started using his muscle
21:16 and started pushing him back and just letting his hands go,
21:19 and he put him in a firefight
21:21 where Aguilar got the best of those exchanges.
21:25 - Once again, you see that short right--
21:27 short left hook from Luna
21:29 after two right hands from Aguilar.
21:33 The counter puncher.
21:36 There's that stick,
21:38 letting Aguilar walk into his shots.
21:41 - Yeah, he gets his head a little bit off line,
21:43 and he makes himself available for the right hand,
21:46 but he's able to sneak that jab in.
21:48 And I'm saying Luna...
21:51 Just watch how he sets up that jab
21:53 and how he leaps his head to the left side,
21:55 and then he shoots his jab right down,
21:57 and he's splitting that guard.
21:59 - Ooh, that's great defense from Luna.
22:04 - Dude, winging shots like that, you--
22:06 - You get tired. - It's tiring.
22:09 I mean, the energy-- the energy goes into--
22:11 if you land, it goes into your opponent,
22:13 and at the same time, it boosts you.
22:16 It boosts you, you know?
22:17 You get a shot of adrenaline because you landed.
22:20 - Mm-hmm.
22:21 Mission accomplished. Now let's do it again.
22:23 Oh, that's a nice right from Aguilar,
22:25 and then a right uppercut.
22:26 - Then he comes out wide and gets clipped
22:28 with a two-piece right there from Luna.
22:31 Catching him while he's out of position.
22:34 - There's that long right from Aguilar.
22:36 - Again, Aguilar now is losing-- using his muscle now.
22:39 He's bagging him up.
22:40 He's forcing Luna to fight him.
22:43 Good combination right there
22:56 and movement right there from Luna.
23:00 - Luna.
23:02 - Again, not trying to close the gap,
23:06 but Luna making it harder.
23:07 - See, that was a sign.
23:08 That right there was a display of effective aggression.
23:11 See, you can be moving back and still be the aggressor
23:14 because you're letting off your offense
23:16 while your opponent is coming forward or moving forward,
23:20 but you're letting the offense--
23:22 you're taking advantage of his aggression.
23:25 - Aguilar.
23:27 - Pick him up, Omar.
23:37 - Aguilar getting warnings for a low blow there
23:39 from referee Lee Rogers.
23:43 - Another thing that I learned at the convention,
23:47 at the judges' meeting, was that you want to keep the fight
23:51 in the center of the ring.
23:53 You know, when you have your back against the ropes
23:55 in each corner, the judges, it's hard to see.
23:58 You know, they can't see punches landing,
24:01 effective punches landing,
24:02 so if you keep the fight in the center of the ring,
24:05 it's a lot better.
24:06 All the judges can see what's going on.
24:09 - Come on, you got to use this damn jab
24:12 is what they're telling Luna.
24:14 You won this one clearly.
24:16 You got to win the next ones too.
24:19 You're doing well.
24:21 That's how you got to fight.
24:22 You can't take a rest here.
24:24 Walk behind the jab.
24:27 And when he stops, you got to counter him.
24:29 Everything behind your jab.
24:32 How do you feel? Feeling good?
24:34 You're doing well.
24:36 - You see how both guys are not breathing?
25:02 - Mm-hmm.
25:03 - Seem like they ain't even fighting, right?
25:06 But what happens--see, they're in good shape.
25:08 But what happens is your body starts to get fatigued.
25:13 That's when you start getting tired.
25:14 That's when you start panting,
25:16 when your body start getting fatigued,
25:17 and you have to fight through fatigue,
25:19 and every fighter has to fight through it.
25:21 You know, some better than others.
25:23 And of course, it's all about the training,
25:25 but after throwing as many punches as these guys
25:28 through all the punches that they were able to take,
25:31 they're not even breathing hard at all.
25:34 - So they're in great shape is what you're telling me.
25:36 - Yes, they're in great shape.
25:37 - Well, Luna told me I spent two months
25:40 in the altitude of Mexico City
25:42 training for this fight.
25:44 He is actually from Gomez Palacios, Mexico.
25:46 He works as an accountant in an accounting firm.
25:49 - Break, break, break, break, break, break.
25:50 - But he left for two months
25:52 to be able to be in this type of conditioning
25:54 because he knew what kind of fight
25:57 Omar Aguilar was going to bring.
25:58 - Yes.
26:01 - Short left hook from Luna,
26:03 perfectly placed on the chin of Aguilar.
26:05 - It's always good when you have a business,
26:10 you work for a company,
26:12 and they're able to support you
26:13 and give you the time needed to be able to train
26:15 and do what you are passionate about.
26:19 - Nowadays, you can do a lot of your work online.
26:22 That helps, but, you know,
26:25 he bet on himself going up to Mexico City,
26:27 as now, Aguilar, you talked about
26:28 using his physical strength.
26:30 - Yes.
26:31 - Trying to wear down Luna.
26:32 - Yes.
26:33 And see, that right there didn't look like much,
26:34 but he put him in the headlock,
26:35 and he put pressure on his head,
26:37 and he made him use his legs right there
26:40 for that split second.
26:42 - Aguilar is really sneaky
26:44 about going to the body on the inside
26:46 as Luna lands a couple of really good shots.
26:55 - Nice body work from Aguilar.
26:58 Ooh, that was another questionable shot.
27:03 - Oh, he twisted his ankle right there.
27:04 You saw that?
27:05 - Mm.
27:06 Luna depends on his footwork, though.
27:09 - Break clean, break clean, break clean,
27:13 break clean, go.
27:15 - Double jab from Luna.
27:19 Nice counter left from Luna.
27:22 Oh, that uppercut catches Aguilar leaning in,
27:25 and he's got 40 seconds here
27:27 to either recover or come get him.
27:31 Luna with the vicious uppercuts.
27:35 He's using the Venado Lopez style here,
27:38 and you see Aguilar trying to hold on
27:41 for the remainder of this seventh round.
27:44 - Where Luna's making a mistake is,
27:46 he's not going down to the body of Aguilar.
27:50 He's just headhunting.
27:52 He needs to go down to that body,
27:53 weaken him some more,
27:55 bring his attention down to his body
27:57 to be able to land that another vicious uppercut.
28:00 - Ooh, nice uppercut, and a left hook
28:07 also landed by Aguilar here
28:09 at the end of this round.
28:12 Let's take a look at that vicious left hook
28:16 that Luna landed on Aguilar.
28:18 - Yeah, a little teeter-totter, there you go.
28:20 You're gonna lean forward with your shots.
28:22 Guess what?
28:23 I have an uppercut waiting on you.
28:25 There you see it right there.
28:27 Aguilar didn't anticipate it at all.
28:30 He didn't feel it.
28:31 He didn't see that punch coming.
28:33 Uppercuts are deadly punches
28:35 because you don't see those punches coming
28:37 from underneath at all.
28:39 And I always say,
28:40 any time a fighter's hands leave his face,
28:42 there's an opening up the middle,
28:44 and there you see it right there.
28:45 You see the left hand,
28:46 you see the right hand close to being at home,
28:47 but guess what?
28:48 That middle is wide open,
28:50 and you see right there,
28:51 Luna taking full advantage of that.
28:54 There it is, slipping it right underneath.
28:57 There's a little--
28:59 And here's the wink.
29:00 You got me, dawg, you got me.
29:02 Good shot.
29:03 - He's like, "Let me take this minute to recover
29:05 and see what I got for you coming out
29:07 for the eighth and final round."
29:09 - Good stuff, buddy.
29:10 You know?
29:16 The wink is more like, "You got me,"
29:18 'cause when you smile at somebody,
29:20 it means, "You got me,
29:21 but you're trying to trick 'em, right?"
29:23 Like, "Now I know I got you."
29:26 - Or it could have been like,
29:27 "Hey, I recovered. I'm good."
29:29 - Let's see how much he recovered
29:32 or how well he recovered here
29:33 with 2 minutes and 40 seconds left
29:35 in this eighth and final round
29:37 before we move over to ESPN
29:40 for our main card,
29:42 which will start with Emiliano Fernando
29:45 "El General" Vargas
29:47 lead us to Xander Zayas
29:49 and our main event,
29:50 which will be a world title fight
29:52 at 126 pounds
29:53 between the champion Luis Alberto Venado Lopez
29:56 and Jowett Gonzalez,
29:57 getting his third crack
29:59 at the featherweight belt.
30:01 - Break, break, clean, break, clean, break, clean.
30:12 Go.
30:13 - See, when you have a round
30:14 as good as you had last round,
30:16 you definitely want to come back out,
30:18 and you want to demand respect to the ring,
30:20 and then, you know,
30:21 you never want a fighter to come back
30:22 and regain confidence
30:24 after you just hurt him with a big shot.
30:26 Step on that gas a little bit.
30:28 Push him back.
30:29 Let him know that you're in the fight.
30:30 Oh, he slapped him with that shot.
30:32 Did you see that shot?
30:33 - Oh, my.
30:34 - He slapped him.
30:35 - Watch your head. Watch your head.
30:36 - It's like an open fist.
30:38 - Break, clean, break, clean, break, clean.
30:40 - Oh, man.
30:42 - I'm not gonna lie.
30:43 You'd have pissed me off
30:44 if you'd have slapped me with a shot like that, bro.
30:46 - Well, apart from it being illegal.
30:48 - Don't slap me like that, man.
30:50 What the hell?
30:52 - Nice left uppercut from Luna.
30:56 - If they set that up again.
30:58 - Yeah, it's been there all night.
31:00 - Oh, nice right hand from Aguilar,
31:02 and Luna responds.
31:04 - Break, clean, break, clean, break.
31:10 - Nice body work from Luna.
31:12 - Slipping the shot inside,
31:14 and he's coming up with the uppercut
31:16 after the body shot.
31:18 - That's what he needed when he had him hurt.
31:20 - Yes.
31:22 - You know, a lot of times
31:24 when you get a guy to the body,
31:26 you know how they drop their hands
31:28 to protect their elbows?
31:30 Well, the same thing happens
31:32 when you hurt a guy to the chin.
31:34 He brings his hands up,
31:36 and it opens up the body.
31:38 - It opens up the body, yes.
31:40 And then when you hit him to the body,
31:42 he's gonna bring his hands down.
31:44 - Nice right from Aguilar.
31:46 Luna, though,
31:48 his timing is better than Aguilar's.
31:50 - And his shots are a little bit shorter
31:52 and to the point.
31:54 Little straighter.
31:56 - Straight line beats a curve every time.
31:58 - Yes.
32:00 - That's what I learned when I was using a ProTrak.
32:02 [laughter]
32:04 - 10 seconds.
32:06 [crowd cheering]
32:08 [bell ringing]
32:16 - That should take it home to the bell.
32:18 Matt Aguilar and Julio Luna.
32:20 They go another distance fight
32:22 for Matt Aguilar.
32:24 He is 1-1.
32:26 Both times he has gone the distance.
32:28 So there was plenty to like in this fight, Tim.
32:30 A lot of ebbs and flows
32:32 between Aguilar and Luna.
32:34 - And I'm gonna tell you this. Aguilar, he looked different.
32:36 You know, he looked different from the last time
32:38 I saw him. He took a step backwards.
32:40 And actually, this is his second
32:42 fight this year. He fought
32:44 in May. He didn't look sharp
32:46 like I saw him last time out.
32:48 And Luna,
32:50 although he's not the most
32:52 skillful fighter, he was the more
32:54 technical fighter tonight. And I think, honestly,
32:56 his punches were crisp. They were to the point.
32:58 And I think he actually won this fight.
33:00 Now, I didn't score this match, no.
33:02 But I'm just saying, from what I saw
33:04 watching this fight, and
33:06 both guys landing their effective punches, I thought
33:08 Luna did a great job in setting up
33:10 shots. And towards the back end of the fight, also,
33:12 he landed that nasty uppercut
33:14 that hurt Aguilar.
33:16 And a couple of shots early on that hurt
33:18 really got Aguilar's attention. But,
33:20 you know, I'm impressed with the resiliency
33:22 of Aguilar.
33:24 But I'm also impressed with the, I would say,
33:26 the proficiency of Luna
33:28 and the way he was able to approach this fight
33:30 I believe, for the most part of the night.
33:32 I like how since you came back from
33:34 your kumbaya moment at the
33:36 NABF convention with the
33:38 referees and judges, now
33:40 you want to keep it clean.
33:42 It's important. Well, you've got to keep it clean
33:44 because, again,
33:46 I think we've been scoring these fights
33:48 wrong. Like, they have their criteria in the way
33:50 they look at and score fights.
33:52 We have our criteria in the way we score
33:54 fights. But a lot of times, we look
33:56 at damage. That's the problem.
33:58 We look at damage.
34:00 So, if a guy gets hit in his face and looks like
34:02 crap, then you assume, automatic,
34:04 "Ooh!" You know, you come home from
34:06 school, you see somebody with a black eye, "Ooh, you got beat up!"
34:08 But really, in reality, he beat the other guy up.
34:10 You should see the other guy. Yeah, you should see the other guy, right?
34:12 That's the thing
34:14 with boxing. And fights are scored round
34:16 by round. So, you might land 20 punches
34:18 on me in one round.
34:20 I see the damage from that.
34:22 But that's only one round.
34:24 You feel me? That's a 10-9 round.
34:26 So,
34:28 I think throughout the course of the fight, that's what happens.
34:30 We look at that and say, "Okay, he had a great
34:32 round right there. He had a great round right there."
34:34 But in all reality, nah, he didn't win the boxing
34:36 match. Alright, so for me,
34:38 I thought it was a 77-75
34:41 fight for Julio
34:43 Luna. We'll see what
34:45 the judges have once
34:47 Mark Chinook gets in there. But
34:49 it's kind of seeing the same thing. Like,
34:51 Luna's efficiency, his proficiency
34:53 inside, the way he took
34:55 control of certain moments despite
34:57 the strength of Aguilar. And here
34:59 is Mark Chinook with the
35:01 official decision.
35:03 Ladies and gentlemen, after
35:05 eight rounds here inside American Bank
35:07 Center, we go to the judges' scorecards
35:09 for the official decision.
35:11 Jesse Reyes scores at 79-73.
35:16 Hector Gonzalez,
35:18 78-74.
35:20 And Chris Flores, 77-75.
35:24 All in favor of your winner by
35:26 unanimous decision.
35:28 And now the WBC
35:30 USA welterweight champion,
35:32 Julio
35:34 Canelito Luna!
35:38 So Canelo Alvarez
35:40 did not fight on
35:42 Mexican Independence Day weekend this
35:44 year, but El Canelito Julio
35:46 Luna did, and he comes away
35:48 with the unanimous decision win
35:50 against Omar "El Pollo"
35:52 your idea that we will be moving over to ESPN.