The pay-per-view portion of the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez card opened with a 10-round junior-lightweight bout between Tijuana’s Juan Carlos Burgos (27-1, 19 KOs) and Puerto Rico’s Luis Cruz (19-0, 15 KOs).
Burgos is the nephew of Victor Burgos, the flyweight who was nearly killed after losing a 2007 title fight to Vic Darchinyan because of a blood clot in his brain that forced him into a coma.
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Alex Camponovo, the promoter for both Burgoses, reports Victor has “fully recovered,” and is living in Tijuana.
There was good news Saturday for Juan Carlos Burgos as well as he backed up Cruz in the second and third rounds, and had caused the Puerto Rican’s right eye to swell excessively by the seventh round, when Burgos ducked a right and unloaded a hard left to Cruz’s side.
The only loss for Juan Carlos was a unanimous-decision road defeat to Hozumi Hasegawa last November in Japan for the vacant World Boxing Council featherweight title.
Burgos added two hard lefts in the ninth, then eased through the 10th round, winning by scores of 97-93, 98-92 and 95-95, to improve to 28-1.
“I was concentrating on getting my rhythm early and to control pace of the fight,” Burgos said. “I gained more confidence every time I would land a left hook. This was an opportunity I could not throw away on such a big stage as a Manny Pacquiao fight.”
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