It was Juarez family affair in the Rio Grande Valley Saturday night as Juarez Promotions put on its inaugural boxing show that featured Sebastian ``El Trueno" Juarez, the brother of Omar "El Relampago" Juarez in the evening's main event wih his brother in his corner. "El Trueno" brought the thunder and showed that his skills are translating at the professional level. Juare is a multi time US National champ and remained an undefeated professional prospect Saturday night at the Harlingen COnvention Center. Juarez, of Brownsville, worked behind a quick and disciplined jab in beating down a rugged opponent in Francisco Javier Castillo of Tamaulipas, Mexico. The difference in handspeed was noticeable from the start as Juarez would flury and frustrate Castillo. At just 18 years-old showed ring generalship and maturity beyond his years. He was able to maintain distance and score with body shots at will that broke down his opponent and began breaking his will. Castillo began shelling up and in survival mode for much of the fight as Juarez controlled the action and took a lot of steam out of Ctastillow with body sohts, one right hand in particular seemed to really damaged the outmatched opponet.Juarez stayed patient and calm and dominated the fourth as well and rolled to a well earned UD victory by scores of 40-36 X3.
In the evenings co main evernt youngser "Pretty Boy" Bryan Rodriguez of nearby Donna, Texas, made a big statement in just his second pro fight. THe Donna native scored a lopsided unanimous decision over the very game and experienced Victor Pinon. Rodriguez boxed beautifully and showcased his jab and his speed while scooring at will in the svheduled four rounder wheile making his opponent, Fernando Robles consistgently miss. Just before the 10 second clap, Rodriguez, fighting off his back foot landed a snapping left hook that seemed to hurt Robles. Working off his back foot Pretty Boy was able to bait Robles into wating left hooks that Rodriguez threw from a wide variety of angels. The Donna native continued using his foot work and speed and was able to put round in the backs. In the fourth and final round he scored with a short left hook right hand combination that stopped Robles in his track. The score cards were academic as Rodrgiuez rolled to a wide decsion.
The undervard featured several other prospects of note. 18-year- Junior Flyweight Esteban Garza of San Juan, Texas scored the KO of the night. After landing with several right hands that backed up Angel Martinez, he delivered a left hook to the bodyt less than a minute into the fight that put Martinez down and out. The impressive youngster moved to 3-0 (2).
Harlingen, native Moses Garcia moved to 2-0 (2) with two second round KO's as he stopped Diego Aguilar. Garcia drove his man into the corner with a blistering right hand a minute into the second. While Garcia had his man in th ecorner he carefully picked his shots and a left hook to the body sealed the deal as Aguilar wa unable to veat the count.
Jose Infante of nearby Brownsville made his Texas debut a succesful one and was able to deliver a second round KO as well. The Brownsville native took on Diego Rodriguez ofTamaulipas, Mexico. THe Texan got to work quickly and dropped Rodrigue with a right hand a minute into the fight. He stayeed patiend and got back to work behind the jab and mied in some thudding ody shots that had Rodriguez haurt several times. A right hand with about 20 seconds left in the opening round dropped Rodriguez a second time. Infante quickly went in and finished the job when a pair of Right hands from Infante put his outmathed opponets on ice skates and vrogubht the referee in to step in and stop the fight. Infante moved to 3-0 (2) overall.
In what was perhaps the most competative fight of the night Adolofo Alanis of Edinburg outlasted Angel Tamez of Brownsiville. Alanis a southpaw with a ide base applied pressure and attacked in the early going. He scored with a straightl eft hans that forced Tames into the ropes. However, Tamez did good work with his back to the rope and caught the attntion of Alanis with a big right hand just before the end of one. Tamez landed clean shots throughout, but it was Alanis with the quicker hand speed and cleaner foot work. He wound fire off combinations that would stop the momentum of Tames. Alanis was outworking his man and out scoring him while at long range.The Brownsville resident scored with body shots on the inside,but Alanis was able to catch Tamez coming and would flurry with a barrage of unanswered shots. Ultimately it was ths speed and combinations of Alanis that carried the night and earned his the hard fought and compeative unamious decsion by scores of 39-37X3. He improved to 6-0 (1) while Tamez fell to 7-4 (6).