It's been a roller coaster ride for Laredo native Jaime Jasso in his short but promising career. After starting off 2-0 and looking sensational, he dropped two in a row, two competitive decisions, including a loss on ESPN to "Cash Flow" Floyd Diaz in Las Vegas. The 21-year-old Laredoan relocated to San Antonio, got with a new team, signed with Pound 4 Pound Promotions, and has run off two more victories in a row. Including the biggest one of his young career Saturday night in San Antonio at the Hanger 9. A third-round KO of the year type stoppage of undefeated Timothy Longoria of Palacios to capture ABF Super Flyweight belt. The shorter Jasso was able to overcome a height and reach disadvantage and was sliding in using his jab. He was able to avoid Longoria's return fire. Jasso mixed up head and body shots brilliantly, not just winning rounds but winning the battle and setting his man up for something big. That something big came late in the third round. The end came abruptly. Jasso scored with a wide right hand that dropped Longoria like a building imploding on himself. The referee waved off the bout as soon as Longoria hit the canvas without a count. It was a spectacular ending for Jasso, who moved his record to 4-2 (1). The newly minted ABF title holder is onto bigger and better things. His team would like a showdown with 6-0 (6) Ephraim Bui.
Also on the card was an ABF title fight fighter between 13x National Champ Melissa Holguin of San Antonio and Carmen Vargas of Houston for the vacant ABF Featherweight title. The six-round affair took place mostly in a phone booth. The two combatants traded thudding power shots throughout the extremely competitive and entertaining scrap. Holguin did her best work in the second round, landing thudding body shots and forcing Vargas backward. However, Vargas responded in the middle rounds, working well from the mid-range and keeping the amateur stand-out at bay. She was scoring with a quick jab followed by solid right hands. Vargas was able to stand her ground when the aggressive Holguin worked her way onto the inside. The San Antonian responded nicely in the fifth round with hard body shots that took some steam out of Vargas. Holguin landed with short right hands on the inside that snapped the head back of her opponent the fight appeared to be too close to call going to the final round and the Houstonian got going in those final two minutes. It appeared Holguin was beginning to slow down which allowed Vargas to create the space she needed to land her jab and straight right hands. She was able to keep her swarming opponent off of her. Vargas seemed to get the best of the last stanza. She scored with a short uppercut late in the round that stopped Holguin's momentum. The pair stood toe to toe and traded power shots as the bell sounded to end the fight. The judges favored the mid-range work of Vargas unanimously by scores of 58-56x2 and a much too wide 60-54. In addition to picking up the ABF featherweight strap, Vargas moves to 4-1-1 and Holguin dropped to 3-1.