Records missing the opening and walkout bouts from 6/25/08 Playboy Mansion, Beverly Hills, CA
Santos Soto III UD4 Raymundo Ortega
Melissa McCorrow UD4 Mayela Perez
Here are clips from my fight report:
Former amateur standout Melissa McMorrow (1-0) of San Carlos, California scored a hard-fought unanimous decision over always tough Mayela Perez in an evenly contested four-round super flyweight bout. McMorrow and Perez traded punch for punch for four hard to score rounds. In the end McMorrow was awarded the decision, as two judges scored the bout 39-37, with the other scoring it 40-36. spam.com scored the bout a draw, 39-39.
Another former amateur star from the Bay Area made a solid showing in his professional debut, as Santos Soto III (1-0) of San Francisco, California scored a four-round unanimous decision over rugged Raymundo Ortega (1-3, 1 KO) of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico in a light middleweight contest. Soto, one of the top amateurs in Northern California for the last several years, out landed his durable foe for the four rounds on his way to a shutout, 40-36 on all three judges’ cards. Soto, 154 ½, and Ortega, 154 ½, took turns winging shots in the center of the ring for the duration of the fight. spam.com was in agreement with the judges on the scoring, as Soto did just enough to win every round.
-Mario Ortega Jr.