By: Sean Crose
It seemed prefer it was shaping as much as be a reasonably good battle. WBC featherweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez could have been the favored strolling in to face the largely unknown Samuel Carmona, however the undefeated former Olympian had clearly travelled to Glendale, Arizona to win. Although Martinez was initially speculated to be combating a rematch with McWilliams Arroyo, Carmona was proving to be greater than an satisfactory substitute (McWilliams was prevented from combating because of an damage).
Carbona landed effectively and was capable of maintain Martinez from getting his timing down all through the primary a part of the bout. By the halfway level of the scheduled twelve rounder, it seemed like maybe an upset could be within the air. Then one thing occurred. It appeared in reality to be an damage to Carbona’s proper hand. Needless to say, the Spaniard needed to spend a lot of the second half of the match combating one handed – if solely he was combating. Without the fitting, all of Carbona’s spectacular footwork started to look so much like operating. Martinez was capable of capitalize on the second, not less than considerably. The query after the ultimate bell was whether or not or not both man had achieved sufficient to win.
Needless to say, Martinez gained by scores of 114-114, 117-11, 116-112. Although one decide dominated the battle a draw, the opposite two had Martinez successful comfortably. It was value questioning how issues would have turned out had Carbona not been injured.
