good win for the white mexican William Zepeda, dominating Jojo Diaz.
Now is as good a time as ever to give a weekend round up for White prospect wins.
On Friday Guido"The Gladiator" Vianello defeated a Scottish Andy Ruiz clone over 8 rounds with a near shutout decision win. I wasn't sure why he left Top Rank, maybe the reason was his lack of visibility buried deep on Top Rank cards when he could be a headliner in Italy.
Johnny Fisher destroyed a Czech tomato can in the first round. There has been talk of letting him fight for a regional domestic belt. Judging from the B side opponents at those level fights his caliber of opponent might be a marginal upgrade over this opponent.
Sonny Conto had a dark bout and destroyed a guy with a "better body" than his but looking like a model or an actor in a Rocky movie doesn't equate to having true club fight ability to test a prospect like Conto who seems to be doing what Vianello is doing in Italy where he headlining local cards in the Philadelphia area against carefully selected opponents.
On the surface it seems like you could only get so far not fighting on big promoters cards but another Italian American(Joe Mesi) from close to 2 decades ago built up a huge local following and was on the verge of a title shot or big money showdown with Mike Tyson(who was the heavyweight cash cow at the time) before he failed a post fight medical for a small brain bleed. So this route could be taken too to a high ranking with the alphabet organizations.
PS I forgot about Richard Torrez Jr. He blew out his fairly tough opponent in the 3rd round after dropping him 3 times in the fight Arthur Mercante Jr saw enough of the spoiler tactics of the Arab American opponent. Torrez who looks very stocky at 229 pounds fights in a similar fashion to Mike Tyson.
During the fight the commentary team of Bradley and Ward questioned if his seek and destroy style will work against more skilled opponents. Time will tell but what led Mike Tyson to having this unbeatable image was his quality defense with his explosive offense. Once he lost the bob and weave tactics he lost fights and was in slug fests with opponents he probably would have blown out with his previous defense.
