By: Sean Crose
Sometimes it simply pays to play it sensible quite than making an attempt to please everybody. Although Danielito Zorrilla didn’t handle to life the WBC junior welterweight crown off the pinnacle of champion Regis Prograis Saturday evening at New Orlean’s Smoothie Center, the artful challenger posed fairly a problem for the defending champion. The proven fact that he did so in entrance of Prograis’ hometown New Orleans crowd made Zorrilla’s defensive minded technique all of the extra spectacular.
Prograis truly appeared to go down within the first, although it was dominated a slip. A flash shot from Prograis, however, knocked Zarrilla down in third. Those had been the highlights of a quite subdued battle. Yet boxing isn’t a brawl and the unheralded Zarrilla went to New Orleans to win quite than to easily seize himself a reasonably paycheck. By using a technique of avoidance, the challenger was capable of hold Prograis from launching an efficient assaults whereas touchdown some good pictures of his personal. Not that Prograis carried out badly. He didn’t. He merely didn’t look spectacular. Indeed, Prograis solely ended up profitable by cut up resolution.
No matter. The fighter referred to as “Rougarou” can now transfer on to different competitors – maybe massive identify competitors like Teofimo Lopez – now that he technically took care of enterprise on Saturday night. Prograis stated after the battle that he knew he had some issues to work on, and that could be true. To argue that Prograis was someway uncovered by the broadly unknown Zarrilla, nonetheless, looks as if a little bit of a stretch. All fighters have robust nights, and Zarrilla offered a tricky evening for Prograis Saturday by footwork and sharp capturing. If solely the person had thrown extra, the consequence might have confirmed to be completely different.
The battle was what it was, nonetheless, a contest the place one fighter was prepared to bore the group to win. It’s not a reasonably technique, however it may be efficient. It simply wasn’t efficient sufficient for Zarrilla on Saturday evening in New Orleans.
