Nelson Oliva vs Franyerson Puerta (30-03-2024) Full Fight
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Transcript
00:00 - Good night, Jim.
00:01 - Oliva, Puerta, you both received your instructions
00:03 in the locker room.
00:04 [speaking Spanish]
00:06 Your trunks are good.
00:07 [speaking Spanish]
00:09 We'll let you work up to here, okay?
00:10 Let's have a good, clean fight.
00:12 Touch gloves on that. Good luck.
00:14 [crowd chattering]
00:17 - We get ready to go.
00:18 Ivan Guillermo, the third man in the ring,
00:21 Nelson Oliva.
00:24 He's got Guatemalan and El Salvador roots.
00:29 - So naturally, settled in Denver, Colorado.
00:32 - No, I'm talking about Oliva.
00:33 He's from El Salvador.
00:35 - Oliva. - Okay.
00:37 So he's from L.A., but one dad is--
00:40 or one parent from El Salvador,
00:42 one parent from Guatemala.
00:43 His opponent, Puerta, from Venezuela,
00:46 has settled in Denver.
00:48 - And the dad is here, Saul.
00:50 - Yeah, you saw that, huh?
00:52 This will be a good one.
00:53 Nelson Oliva, 10-0, trained by Henry Ramirez,
00:56 an excellent trainer in Southern California.
00:58 Had Chris Arriola over the years,
01:01 Josecito Lopez.
01:03 Does a good job bringing up fighters
01:05 in the Southern California scene.
01:07 And...
01:09 [crowd chattering]
01:11 - Knuckle Nelson blew through his first five opponents,
01:14 knocking them all out quickly.
01:16 And then he just got this hellacious battle
01:19 from Wayne Boudreau.
01:20 - That was a heck of a fight.
01:21 The old Thompson Boxing Show.
01:23 From Louisiana, these two went at it.
01:26 [crowd chattering]
01:29 - But as he said, as Beto was referring to,
01:35 he gave up that full-time job, construction work,
01:39 and he said, "I don't want to beat 40
01:42 "and then realize I should have given
01:44 a little more to my boxing career."
01:46 - Yeah, he was-- - And regret it.
01:48 - It was an interesting conversation we had with him
01:50 after one of his Thompson fights.
01:51 I'm like, "So what are you gonna do?"
01:53 He's like, "Man, I have to use vacuum.
01:55 "I have to use vacation days to train the final week to cut."
02:00 Like, and then back-breaking work.
02:02 He's working on construction with Jack Cameron,
02:05 and he would get done with work,
02:07 working the overnight's rich,
02:09 and then go to the gym and try to train.
02:12 The body can only take so much, especially as you get older.
02:15 - And not only back-breaking,
02:16 but just about hand-breaking too.
02:18 - Yes. - Because he suffered
02:19 a really bad injury
02:21 when a compressor crushed his hand
02:23 against the truck. - Yeah.
02:26 - Henry said he's got some talent,
02:28 so chase that boxing dream.
02:31 - Completely different when you know
02:33 you only have to get up and run and train.
02:37 - Mm-hmm.
02:38 - Support a family.
02:40 [chatter]
02:43 - [speaking Spanish]
02:44 - He's only had the two fights go the distance.
02:46 We mentioned the fight against Boudreau,
02:48 his last fight also went the distance.
02:51 And he won that on a unanimous decision
02:54 over Meneses, Guerrero Meneses.
02:58 And he said he expected that to be a tough fight.
03:00 It was not a shock to him that he didn't knock him out.
03:03 He said he'd seen him fight before.
03:05 - Walk around, walk around!
03:07 [chatter]
03:09 - Stop!
03:10 - Put your head on one side and walk around.
03:12 - And I got to tell you,
03:13 Oliva is just as nice a guy as you'll ever find.
03:15 - Super nice, super good kid.
03:17 Kid, he's 27.
03:18 - Hands up!
03:21 - Somebody that came on the Thompson boxing scene,
03:23 we're like, "Okay, knocking people out,
03:25 but is there gonna be something there?"
03:27 Continued to progress, could progress.
03:29 And here he is, fighting with CBN.
03:32 [chatter]
03:35 [bell dings]
03:36 [upbeat music]
03:39 ♪ ♪
03:47 ♪ ♪
03:52 ♪ ♪
03:57 ♪ ♪
04:02 ♪ ♪
04:05 - First round, Oliva trying to get his jab going.
04:09 The follow-up punch is not really connecting.
04:12 Not going wild in there either.
04:17 And that's an important thing
04:18 when you have the knockout record
04:19 that Oliva has in his career so far.
04:23 He just hasn't fallen in love with that.
04:25 [whistle blows]
04:28 - Yeah.
04:29 ♪ ♪
04:32 - Second round of action.
04:34 Nelson Oliva and Francis Puerta.
04:37 This one's scheduled for six rounds.
04:39 Puerta with a record of five and three.
04:41 - He's in Denver, Colorado now, Rich.
04:43 He works at the airport.
04:46 If you've ever been to Denver,
04:47 you know that airport might as well be in Wyoming.
04:50 - That's right. That is massive.
04:52 [laughter]
04:55 - He showed up to the United States a year ago,
04:58 and here he is boxing.
05:00 - Been here several months.
05:04 I asked him how he describes his style.
05:06 He said, "Dynamic."
05:07 - Really?
05:09 I could've given a chat to him.
05:10 I said, "All right, good.
05:11 I'm glad you got the dynamic out of me."
05:14 - And watching him fight,
05:15 he operates well going backward.
05:16 Now, Oliva's not really coming forward.
05:21 - Yeah, not normal.
05:22 I think that normally you see a Nelson Oliva fight,
05:26 and it's very active, very pressure,
05:28 really jumping on him,
05:30 taking his time to that.
05:33 - Puerta operates well going backward,
05:37 but he's not a runner.
05:42 He kind of drags that back foot behind him
05:45 and tries to induce his opponent into making mistakes.
05:48 - Yeah, they're at an interesting weight, too,
05:50 at 154,
05:52 where you have a Tim Zuh, a Fundora,
05:55 you know, now Mike Crawford going to 54.
05:58 - That's all.
06:00 - And it's gonna be a pushdown.
06:02 A pushdown.
06:03 His glove touched, but he was pushed.
06:07 So not a knockdown.
06:09 - Not surprisingly, Puerta says his favorite fighter,
06:17 Edwin Valero, being Venezuelan.
06:22 Valero, you just never knew what to expect out of,
06:25 in or out of the ring, ever.
06:29 - Double, double. Don't come up short. Double.
06:31 - Uh-huh.
06:33 - Yeah, that microphone that's on is the corner of Oliva.
06:36 You'll hear Henry Ramirez.
06:38 He's wearing a mic, so you can hear his instructions.
06:42 So the corners are mics.
06:47 You'll be able to hear what they're saying.
06:50 And Oliva with his back against the rope.
06:52 Looks comfortable.
06:55 - Some good stuff going on inside there.
06:58 - Yeah, good work.
07:00 - See, the thing with Henry wearing that microphone,
07:11 you pick up all the other people behind Henry
07:13 giving instructions.
07:21 - I worked a fight one time. Johnny Tapia was fighting
07:25 in Palm Springs.
07:28 And Miguel Diaz was right next to me
07:31 and never stopped screaming.
07:35 [laughter]
07:37 I couldn't even hear myself, let alone my partner.
07:40 - That's the beauty of working in different locations.
07:44 Most of the time, broadcasts will be in the neutral corner,
07:47 but it just depends on how many broadcasts there are.
07:49 Like tonight, the neutral corner goes to the Spanish broadcast.
07:52 So we're next to the blue corner, which is the corner of Puerta.
07:56 So you hear a lot of stuff.
07:59 And a lot of times, those corners like it
08:02 because they'll have the TV replays
08:04 and they see what's going on, they'll tell them the time.
08:07 Or they'll hear our very unofficial scorecards at times.
08:10 Always interesting working ringside.
08:13 - This was interesting exchanges, too.
08:16 The inside fighting by the two.
08:18 I thought they fought very well, both of them inside.
08:21 And there you see Knuckle Nelson coming forward.
08:25 [whistle blows]
08:28 Usually that's when he's at his best.
08:30 He builds up that momentum.
08:32 [crowd cheering]
08:35 [bell dings]
08:37 - Nelson grew up in the San Fernando Valley.
08:40 He was a water polo player in high school.
08:44 And you know this.
08:46 He's been around so many Olympic sport athletes.
08:48 Now, water polo players are usually known as some of the toughest
08:51 because they tread water for hours,
08:53 and they're fighting.
08:55 That clash of heads here.
08:57 - See some blood there?
08:59 [crowd chatter]
09:02 - And he is cut on the eyebrow.
09:05 [crowd chatter]
09:08 [whistle blows]
09:14 - So now, Huerta is cut on the left eyebrow.
09:18 We'll get the official word from Ivan Guillermo between rounds
09:21 if it was from a punch or from a headbutt.
09:24 [crowd chatter]
09:27 Third round of action scheduled for 6.
09:30 [crowd chatter]
09:32 - Oliva a lot more measured, I think, in this fight
09:35 than we've seen him in the past. - Absolutely.
09:37 - Let's see if maybe that energizes him some.
09:40 [crowd chatter]
09:43 - Yeah, if I can just say, Huerta,
09:46 you look at his record, 5'3", but you don't know much about
09:49 his opponents or where he was at, what was going on.
09:52 [crowd chatter]
09:55 Unintentional headbutt is what we're told
09:58 on the cut of Huerta.
10:01 [crowd chatter]
10:04 Southpaw, Oliva, and Green.
10:07 [crowd chatter]
10:10 Right hand from Huerta lands flush.
10:13 - That's his best combination of the fight.
10:16 Both of those punches landed.
10:19 As Nelson is coming forward here, he's getting tagged
10:22 with some shots.
10:25 [crowd chatter]
10:28 - And Huerta just roughing him up, making it ugly.
10:34 Good strategy for the fighter from Venezuela.
10:37 [crowd chatter]
10:40 [crowd chatter]
10:43 [crowd chatter]
10:46 - From Venezuela fought a lot in Colombia.
10:49 - Yes.
10:52 - Bordering countries.
10:55 That's the man to go in the round.
10:58 Huerta's not making it easy.
11:01 [crowd chatter]
11:04 [crowd chatter]
11:07 [crowd chatter]
11:10 - You hear Henry Ramirez say, "Walk with that jab."
11:13 [crowd chatter]
11:16 - Oh, Huerta with another right.
11:19 Good round for the Venezuelan, Flanius Huerta.
11:22 - He's had some real moments here in this round.
11:25 He's trying to pull off an upset.
11:28 - Final seconds of the third.
11:31 - Coming alive.
11:34 [bell dings]
11:37 [crowd chatter]
11:40 [crowd chatter]
11:43 [crowd chatter]
11:46 [crowd chatter]
11:49 - Headbutt!
11:52 [crowd chatter]
11:55 - Spoke to the referee.
11:58 - Headbutt. Great job by our crew getting the headbutt.
12:01 You'll see it right here.
12:04 There it is.
12:07 Great job on the replay, everybody in the truck.
12:10 And Ivan Garibald officially confirmed that it was a headbutt.
12:13 It's always good to get the referee to give it to you.
12:16 - The interesting thing about it, though, that I found was that Huerta
12:19 did his best fighting after getting that cut.
12:22 Some fighters you see will get cut,
12:25 and it'll throw them off,
12:28 especially if they haven't been cut before,
12:31 and they panic or they-- throws off their style in the ring.
12:34 I thought Huerta's best work was done after he received that
12:37 headbutt and cut.
12:40 - And Huerta on his right bicep has a boxing gloves tattoo,
12:43 and then it says "Lifestyle" on top,
12:46 "Boxing" underneath.
12:49 So it's all about boxing for him.
12:52 - Solid rounds. We head to the fourth.
12:55 More jabbing from Nelson Oliva here to start the fourth round.
13:02 You know, Oliva could be a fighter
13:12 where a lot of them, when you're starting to get the early knockouts,
13:15 you fall in love with that,
13:18 but you forget the boxing.
13:21 - Now he's got a box.
13:24 - Yeah, this is a tough fight.
13:27 He's being drawn into a grueling, kind of enervating
13:30 battle.
13:33 - Body work from Oliva.
13:36 Step back, give himself some room,
13:39 smothering himself.
13:42 He gets really good work at Henry's gym
13:45 in Riverside.
13:48 - Henry Ramirez is probably
13:51 the all-time SoCal sports fan.
13:54 - Oh, I have a boy. - Man, oh man.
13:57 If he can make a Dodger game and a Laker game
14:00 in the same day, he's going to do it.
14:03 - He might even get a Kings game while you're at it.
14:06 And he'll be in somebody's corner working.
14:09 Henry, you may not know him, but you see him anytime you see an
14:12 LA Dodger cap in the corner, that's Henry.
14:15 - At one point was one of the
14:18 young trainers, now he's a salty vet trainer.
14:21 He has a good amateur program and knows how to bring up
14:30 youth. - I thought Henry did a wonderful job
14:33 with Chris Areola, actually, from, you know, when you consider how young
14:36 Henry was as a trainer then. - And he'll tell you,
14:39 it was trainer/guardian at the same time with Areola.
14:42 - Before Areola
14:45 would take Joe Goosen.
14:48 Nelson against the ropes, gets off,
14:51 gets hit with the right hand by Puerta.
14:54 It's only
14:57 a six-round fight. It's close.
15:00 - If Puerta can pull off this round here,
15:03 then you've really got an interesting
15:06 scenario setting up for the final two rounds.
15:09 - There you go.
15:12 Be careful pulling up. You need to go out the side.
15:15 - You can still hear Henry giving instructions.
15:18 - That's it. Let's go.
15:21 - Good body work from Oliva.
15:24 - Ten seconds to go in the round.
15:27 Interesting round
15:30 as both fighters landed good shots.
15:33 What will the judges reward with two more to go?
15:36 [music]
16:04 - Again, more of that interesting inside work.
16:07 I thought both fighters have done really a lot of good work on the inside.
16:10 Puerta landed a nice combination
16:13 there to leave it kind of chased him out.
16:16 Knuckle Nelson with a nice
16:19 left cross out of his south
16:22 cross stance. Chopping left there.
16:25 Puerta tried to bull rush him to the
16:28 ropes to try to get him off of him.
16:31 - Puerta has comported himself very well here tonight.
16:34 Certainly has not been an easy fight for Nelson Oliva
16:37 although he may be ahead in points.
16:40 - Definitely close as we head to the fifth round.
16:43 Schedule for six. Nelson
16:46 Oliva in the green.
16:49 Puerta in the red.
16:52 There was a clash of heads earlier. It was actually no headbutt
16:55 as Puerta comes out strong in the fifth round.
16:58 Oliva getting tagged.
17:01 - This is starting to have the look of that Wayne
17:04 Boudreaux fight for Oliva again. - Yes, it was.
17:07 - Oliva's been there, had to dig deep for that.
17:13 - Having that experience, he knows he can do it.
17:19 - Here's where the matchmaking
17:22 of Alex Camponovo comes in.
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22:43 He's looking for an opening.
22:46 He's following him around, but he's not throwing.
22:49 He's getting hit.
22:52 Oliva landing all the shots here in the sixth and final round.
22:56 [crowd shouting]
22:59 Good shot from Oliva on the left.
23:10 Moves back Puerta.
23:13 Puerta looking tired.
23:16 Nelson actually triple jabbed before he threw that left cross.
23:19 [crowd shouting]
23:22 Less than a minute to go in the round.
23:25 [crowd shouting]
23:28 Puerta hasn't thrown anything, Rich.
23:31 No.
23:34 He's giving this round away.
23:37 He's followed Oliva around.
23:40 Looked for an opening. Hasn't thrown.
23:43 Oliva's controlling this round.
23:46 Look as he walks forward, does not throw.
23:49 [crowd shouting]
23:52 30 seconds to go in the fight.
23:55 [crowd shouting]
23:58 There's one.
24:01 Oliva with his back against the ropes.
24:04 Get out of there.
24:07 10 seconds to go in the fight.
24:10 [crowd shouting]
24:13 [bell dings]
24:16 Good action. Good back and forth.
24:19 Good six rounds between Nelson Oliva and Frank Nelson Puerta.
24:22 [crowd shouting]
24:25 Interesting to see how the judges get that,
24:28 but that last round, frankly, was on Nelson Oliva.
24:31 The only round where I can say that was one fighter.
24:34 I thought Nelson Oliva won this fight,
24:37 but he got a fight.
24:40 Absolutely.
24:43 Very good opponent in there tonight.
24:46 Again, sometimes I'm really shocked at how you find opponents
24:49 who will give you a good show like that
24:52 based on the fact that they haven't fought in the United States.
24:55 [crowd shouting]
24:58 [bell dings]
25:01 There's that class.
25:04 You can't blame that, I don't think,
25:07 on one or the other fighters,
25:10 but it was clear that Puerta got the worst of it.
25:13 [crowd shouting]
25:16 And then Oliva just went to work.
25:19 Started doubling and tripling up on his jab,
25:22 which was good. That set up the rest of his offense,
25:25 and then he went downstairs, punched to the body.
25:28 Puerta tried to come alive at the end of the round,
25:31 but it was not enough for him in that last round.
25:34 [crowd shouting]
25:37 Here come the judges' scorecards.
25:40 [crowd shouting]
25:43 [crowd cheering]
25:46 [crowd shouting]
25:49 [crowd shouting]
25:52 [crowd shouting]
25:55 [crowd shouting]
25:58 [crowd shouting]
26:01 [crowd shouting]
26:04 Ladies and gentlemen, how about a big round of applause
26:07 for both of these warriors?
26:10 They gave you six fantastic rounds of boxing action.
26:13 And now to the judges' scorecards we go.
26:16 Judge Sergio Caiz, he's about 58 to 56.
26:19 Judge Chrissy Rosario, he's at 60 to 54.
26:24 And Judge Ron Scott Stevens, he's about 59 to 55.
26:29 All in favor of your winner by unanimous decision,
26:34 and still undefeated,
26:39 Knuckle Nelson Oliva!
26:44 [crowd cheering]
26:47 It wasn't easy, but Nelson Oliva gets the victory.
26:51 The couple scorecards were a little bit wider than I expected,
26:54 but he gets the victory.
26:56 Nelson Oliva, he's now 11-0.
26:59 He's now 11 at 0.