Viloria stops Marquez to unify flyweight titles

LOS ANGELES: Brian Viloria stopped Hernan Marquez in the 10th round Saturday to add Marquez’s World Boxing Association flyweight world title to his own World Boxing Organization belt.
Filipino-American Viloria knocked down Marquez with a right late in round one and continued to dominate the early rounds.
Mexico’s Marquez came alive in the fifth, unleashing a battery of blows, but Viloria weathered the storm and sent Marquez to the canvas again.
“I knew it looked bad but I wasn’t hurt,” Viloria said. “I knew he was going to get tired.”
When Viloria sent Marquez down a third time in the 10th with a left to the head, Marquez’s corner threw in the towel and the referee stopped the bout at 1:01 of the round.
“I think my left hook was too fast for him,” said Viloria, who had won the WBO title with a victory over Julio Cesar Miranda in July 2011.
Viloria, coming off a technical knockout victory over Mexico’s Omar Romero in the Philippines on May 13, stretched his winning streak to six fights since a defeat to Carlos Tamara in 2010.
He took his record to 32-3 with 19 wins inside the distance, while Marquez fell to 34-3 with 25 knockouts.
In an action-packed bout on the undercard, Nicaragua’s Roman Gonzalez retained his WBA light flyweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Juan Francisco Estrada.
Gonzalez remained unbeaten, taking his record to 34-0 with 28 knockouts.
One judge scored it 118-110 while two others saw it 116-112 in favor of the champion.
Mexico’s Estrada fell to 21-2 with 18 knockouts.
With the win, Gonzalez may have given himself a chance to step up in weight and take on Viloria.
Broner dethrones DeMarco
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, unbeaten Adrien Broner battered Antonio DeMarco on the way to an eighth-round technical knockout on Saturday to seize the Mexican’s World Boxing Council lightweight title.
DeMarco had no answer for Broner’s power and speed. The US challenger, a former World Boxing Organization super featherweight champion, took charge from the opening bell and finally sent DeMarco sprawling to his knees with a compact right to the body followed by a swinging left in the eighth.
DeMarco’s corner immediately threw in the towel and the referee called a halt at 1:49 of the eighth round.
The 23-year-old Broner improved to 25-0 with 21 victories inside the distance.
DeMarco, who had won his past five fights, departed the ring with his face bruised and bloody, falling to 28-3-1, with 21 knockouts.
“Once I’m in there, when I’ve got a game plan and I see something I go after it,” Broner said. “I was going to do exactly what I did — shake him up, shake him and bake him, cook him and eat him.”
Broner said he was always confident he could take the champion.
“I knew he wouldn’t have the skills and the will to beat me,” he said.
The fight at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall brought boxing back to an area hit hard by superstorm Sandy.
Golden Boy Promotions said it would donate a portion of ticket sales to local girls and boys’ clubs, whose buildings were damaged in the storm, with Golden Boy owner Oscar de la Hoya and Caesars Atlantic City promising matching donations.