By: Sean Crose
Boxing returned to Manhattan’s Sony Hall Thursday night time as Boxing Insider offered a dwell card of boxing that was broadcast dwell on YouTube. Hell’s Kitchen native Christina Cruz, 4-0, battled the 19-17-2 Nancy Franco in a scheduled eight rounder at tremendous flyweight. Cruz appeared cool and assured within the first, sustaining vary and firing off a robust jab. Franco tagged Cruz early within the second, however Cruz was largely unaffected. The third noticed Franco gamely coming ahead, however Cruz maintained her confidence and managed the tempo. She additionally started touchdown and touchdown onerous through the second half of the spherical.
By the fourth, it was clear that Franco was not going to go quietly into that good night time. Still, she had a really tough time breaking via Cruz’ protection whereas Cruz was capable of land with power and precision. The motion slowed a bit within the fifth, however by the final portion of the spherical, Cruz was again to doing injury with straight photographs to the top and physique work. Cruz continued to select her photographs within the sixth. The seventh and eighth confirmed simply how a lot of a elegant skilled Cruz was changing into. Conserving power, firing photographs at pointed moments, the New Yorker was doing glorious work.
The eighth and remaining spherical was one other instance of Cruz combating sharp. Needless to say, Cruz walked out of the ring with one other win on her resume, because the choose’s awarded her a unanimous resolution.
