MANILA, Philippines – Brian Viloria
delivered his punches in torrents to defuse Giovani Segura’s power shots
and the Filipino-American went on to retain his World Boxing Organization flyweight crown with an eighth-round stoppage at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City Sunday.
Wary of the Mexican’s lethal body shots,
Viloria brought the fight to the middle of the ring where he exploited
his superior technical skills and faster hands to expose chinks on
Segura’s defensive armor.
Segura’s right temple started to swell
from a series of hooks and straights as early as the second round even
as Viloria, also known as the Hawaiian Punch, sustained a cut in the
left eyebrow from a right straight by the fighter nicknamed Aztec Warrior.
It was all Viloria from there as he
repeatedly jarred the former world light flyweight titlist with
combinations, particularly early in the fourth round when he sneaked in a
right straight and a left hook to the delight of the crowd of about
5,000.
By the seventh round, the swelling had
grown in size and reduced Segura’s right eye into a slit, although the
Mexican bravely stayed on his feet and fought Viloria mainly with upper
cuts.
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