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MANILA – Brian Viloria stayed unbeaten in his ring comeback after scoring a fifth-round technical-knockout win over Miguel Cartanega at the Stubhub Center in Carson, California on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
The 36-year-old Filipino-American pounded on his hapless American opponent midway through the fifth round, prompting referee Raul Caiz Sr to wave off the fight.
Viloria, the former two-time world champion currently on the comeback trail, raised his record to 38-5, with 23 KOs.
Early this year, he scored an eight-round unanimous-decision win over Ruben Montoya.
Cartanega, from Philadelphia, fell to 15-4-1 with 6 KOs. He was visibly hurt by Viloria in the fourth round, but the native of Waipahu, Hawaii failed to deliver the coup de grace.
The scheduled eight-round bout was part of the undercard of the Srisaket Sor Rungvisai-Roman Gonzales rematch for the World Boxing Council super-flyweight title.
The reigning champion from Thailand won the action-packed bout behind a sensational fourth-round knockout of Gonzales, once widely considered the undisputed pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
The rematch came six months after Rungvisai dethroned Gonzales, the hard-hitting puncher from Nicaragua, behind a majority-decision win in a fight that saw the Thai score a first-round knockdown of Chocolatito.
In the undercard, Juan Francisco Estrada eked out a close, unanimous-decision win over tough Carlos Cuadras. Estrada, a two-time world champion, all won by scores of 114-113.
Ring announcer Michael Buffer mistakenly announced Cuadras as the winner but quickly corrected himself. Estrada earned an automatic shot at challenging Ruvingsai’s title. (SPIN.ph)
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