Cotai Arena sees ‘Champions of Gold’ score 6 KO wins

Zou Shiming vs Luis De La Rosa

For the fifth time, Macau’s Cotai Arena has thrilled a large crowd of spectators with a multi-bout boxing event. Last Saturday night’s “Champions of Gold” was marked by six knockout or TKO wins out of the nine bouts.
Headlining the main card, two-time Chinese Olympic gold medalist Zou Shiming (5-0, 1 KOs) graduated to a 10-round bout, where he scored an unanimous decision win at 99-91, 99-91, 97-93 over

Efrain Perez vs Mark Anthony Geraldo

Colombia’s Luis De La Rosa(23-4-1, 13 KO), obtaining the Special Elite WBO international flyweight title.
Another two-time Olympic gold medalist, Cuba’s Guillermo Rigondeaux (14-0, 9 KOs) retained his WBA/WBO super bantamweight titles by stopping his Thai opponent Sod Looknongyangtoy 1:44 into the first round.

Junior Talipeau vs Guillermo Rigondeaux

Mexico’s Gilberto Ramirez (29-0, 23 KOs) scored another fifth-round KO win and won the vacant WBO International Super Middleweight title by defeating Australian boxer Junior Talipeau in 1:58.

Mike Merafuentes vs Egor Mekhontsev

Moreover, former three-time world champion Brian Viloria, Russian Olympic gold medalist Egor Mekhontsev, as well as China’s Ik Yang and Hong Kong’s Rex “The Wonder Kid” Tso, won their respective bouts by the way of KO or TKO.