Roman Gonzalez dominates Julio Cesar Martinez in unanimous decision win
Roman Gonzalez and Julio Cesar Martinez didn't deliver the fight-of-the-year contender many anticipated, but that's only because «Chocolatito» was far too good to allow the matchup to be competitive.
Simply put, Gonzalez schooled Martinez and once again displayed why he's a future first-ballot Hall of Famer with a unanimous-decision victory in on Saturday in San Diego.
Gonzalez was «very surprised» that Martinez made it to the final bell after absorbing a brutal beating, and the scores (118-110, 117-111 and 116-112) belied how truly one-sided the contest was.
«My corner told me not to give him any rounds,» Gonzalez, ESPN's No. 2 115-pound boxer, said in Spanish via a translator. "… He was very courageous; he took a lot of punishment."