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00:00 Jack Reese getting this assignment.
00:01 We are scheduled for four rounds of boxing.
00:05 This is the Flyweight Division.
00:06 Gloria Monguia taking on Lillian Almaraz.
00:09 TJ DeSantis, Abel Sanchez, Doug Fisher.
00:15 Appreciate you joining us live here tonight.
00:17 We're inside Commerce Casino in Commerce, California,
00:20 the site of Hollywood Fight Nights.
00:23 [crowd shouting]
00:26 [crowd shouting]
00:29 [crowd shouting]
00:32 [crowd shouting]
00:35 [crowd shouting]
00:38 [bell dings]
00:39 Here we go.
00:41 Monguia in the brown trunks.
00:44 Almaraz in the blue with white.
00:46 [crowd shouting]
00:49 [crowd shouting]
00:51 I'm expecting a good fight.
00:54 From what I saw of Almaraz on YouTube,
00:57 she's a confident boxer.
00:59 She likes to pressure her opponents,
01:02 but she has, as you see, she's got head movement
01:05 and good technical foundation.
01:08 Keeps her hands up, works off a jab.
01:11 [crowd shouting]
01:14 Monguia talked about working on that lateral movement.
01:18 She's gonna need to rely on that,
01:21 taking on a pressure-packed fighter in Almaraz.
01:25 Yeah, Almaraz goes to the body as well.
01:28 [crowd shouting]
01:31 [crowd shouting]
01:34 [whistle blows]
01:36 [crowd shouting]
01:39 [crowd shouting]
01:42 [crowd shouting]
01:44 Nice stiff jab there from Monguia.
01:47 Whoa!
01:49 Nicely done for Gloria Monguia.
01:52 [crowd shouting]
01:55 [crowd shouting]
01:58 Stephanie Colton talked about her sparring with Munguia
02:01 for this fight.
02:02 They got a lot of rounds together.
02:04 Munguia looks a lot more composed
02:05 than I saw in her last fight.
02:06 Yeah, they've both upped their games.
02:09 What's the old adage?
02:10 Iron sharpens iron?
02:12 [crowd shouting]
02:14 Stop, stop, stop, stop!
02:16 [crowd shouting]
02:18 Almaraz prided herself on being a pressure-packed fighter.
02:22 We'll see if that pressure slows
02:24 after she's been knocked down here this opening round.
02:27 [crowd shouting]
02:30 [crowd shouting]
02:33 [crowd shouting]
02:36 Final seconds here of round number one.
02:38 [crowd shouting]
02:40 [bell dings]
02:41 [crowd shouting]
02:43 Beautiful work turned in by Gloria Munguia.
02:45 Yes, absolutely.
02:46 There's a great extension on that right hand,
02:48 she caught it right at the tip of it.
02:50 [crowd shouting]
02:56 Doug Fisher walks through the knockdown here.
02:58 Now they exchange jabs and step back in range.
03:01 Oh, man, nice arc on that right.
03:03 Just right on the button,
03:05 right over the left hand of Almaraz.
03:08 There it is again.
03:10 It's really--it's not so much the timing.
03:13 I mean, the power, it's the timing of it.
03:16 She just touched her with the jab
03:19 and then came over with it.
03:22 The right hand went right over the left arm of Almaraz.
03:25 Caught it right at the end of it.
03:27 Yeah, right at the end of the punch.
03:29 Right on the chin.
03:31 [crowd shouting]
03:33 [crowd shouting]
03:36 [crowd shouting]
03:39 [bell dings]
03:40 Here we go, heading into round number two
03:42 between these flyweights,
03:43 Gloria Munguia and Lillian Almaraz.
03:46 [crowd shouting]
03:49 [crowd shouting]
03:52 [crowd shouting]
03:55 [crowd shouting]
03:58 [crowd shouting]
04:01 [crowd shouting]
04:04 [crowd shouting]
04:07 And he's throwing here to start round number two.
04:09 Yeah, and Munguia's throwing some nice combinations.
04:12 I like what she's doing with her left hand,
04:14 landing to the body and then coming up to the top.
04:17 And she's able to do this while moving.
04:21 [crowd shouting]
04:24 [crowd shouting]
04:27 [crowd shouting]
04:30 And jab.
04:31 Yeah, that was a stiff jab that moved Almaraz back.
04:35 And again, I think that comes down to timing
04:38 as much as power.
04:40 [crowd shouting]
04:43 Uppercut there for Munguia.
04:46 [crowd shouting]
04:49 Trying to go to the body is Almaraz.
04:52 And she's a decent body puncher when she's in range.
04:56 But Munguia's making her pay a price to getting close
05:01 and really tattooing her from the outside.
05:04 [crowd shouting]
05:07 And Almaraz, it has a reach advantage,
05:09 but it's Munguia that's really controlling
05:11 the range and the pace.
05:13 Yeah, it's impressive.
05:15 [crowd shouting]
05:17 You know, Munguia does a pretty good job of picking off
05:19 blocking shots but also parrying shots with the gloves.
05:23 Munguia just seems to be stronger than Almaraz
05:27 every time she hits another shot she moves him.
05:30 [crowd shouting]
05:33 [bell dings]
05:35 Two rounds down here.
05:37 [crowd shouting]
05:40 Which hand is it?
05:42 Her right hand.
05:44 [crowd shouting]
05:47 [dramatic music]
05:50 ♪
05:58 ♪
06:06 One of the best in the business,
06:08 referee Mike Beltran in the house.
06:11 Always good to see him at the fights.
06:13 ♪
06:16 Now we go inside the corner of Gloria Munguia.
06:20 Firmly out in front in this one.
06:25 Abel, if you were in the corner of Munguia,
06:27 do you really say anything to change the game plan
06:29 or just stick with what you're doing so far?
06:31 I'd like to see her use her right hand a little bit more.
06:33 I think the right hand is a punch
06:35 that knocked her down in the first round.
06:37 I think that would be real effective against this girl.
06:41 Set her up with a nice, crisp drop.
06:43 [crowd shouting]
06:46 Abel, you mentioned you saw Almaraz shake out her hand.
06:49 Yes, when she was in the corner,
06:51 she was missing the court also,
06:53 but her right hand hurt in the last round,
06:55 at the end of the last round.
06:57 [crowd shouting]
07:00 [crowd shouting]
07:03 [crowd shouting]
07:06 [crowd shouting]
07:09 [crowd shouting]
07:12 Almaraz has a decent jab.
07:14 She had the decided reach advantage,
07:16 but Munguia has out-jabbed her this entire fight.
07:19 [crowd shouting]
07:22 [crowd shouting]
07:25 [crowd shouting]
07:28 Eating some damage.
07:30 There's Almaraz.
07:32 [crowd shouting]
07:35 Munguia does a good job working inside,
07:37 but she's even more dangerous on the outside against Almaraz.
07:41 [crowd shouting]
07:43 When she gets off first from a distance,
07:45 there's nothing Almaraz can do in return.
07:47 [crowd shouting]
07:49 Almaraz, she's still in there.
07:51 Occasionally landing, but she's still trying.
07:54 As you mentioned, she has a really good way
07:57 of parrying the shot to the hand.
07:59 Yeah.
08:01 [crowd shouting]
08:04 And she's so relaxed in there,
08:07 so, you know, doesn't have a poker face.
08:10 Her right eye, Almaraz's right eye is down.
08:13 [crowd shouting]
08:16 Stop, stop, stop.
08:18 [speaking Spanish]
08:20 Yeah, Jack just took a look at it.
08:22 [crowd shouting]
08:25 [crowd shouting]
08:28 [whistle blows]
08:31 Final 10 seconds of round number three.
08:34 [crowd shouting]
08:37 [crowd shouting]
08:40 [bell dings]
08:42 Three down, one to go.
08:44 [crowd shouting]
08:47 [crowd shouting]
08:49 I believe the confidence is growing more
08:52 for Gloria Munguia, really getting control
08:54 of this fight throughout.
08:56 [crowd shouting]
08:59 [bell dings]
09:01 [crowd shouting]
09:04 [crowd shouting]
09:06 Take a look at some of the action there
09:08 in round number three.
09:10 Almaraz trying to land a two-piece,
09:12 but it's blocked by Munguia.
09:15 Comes back with the straight shots from the outside.
09:18 You can see that right eye was starting to bother Almaraz
09:21 because she was wiping at him.
09:23 [crowd shouting]
09:26 [crowd shouting]
09:29 [whistle blows]
09:32 Yeah, I like that.
09:34 She does it so almost casually.
09:37 She just kind of taps it like, "No."
09:39 No, no.
09:41 [bell dings]
09:43 [crowd shouting]
09:45 Fourth and final round of this flyweight fight.
09:47 Taking on Lillian Almaraz.
09:50 TJ DeSantis, Abel Sanchez, Doug Fisher.
09:52 Live here tonight inside Commerce Casino.
09:55 The sign of Hollywood Fight Nights.
09:57 Appreciate you joining us on UFC Fight Pass.
09:59 [crowd shouting]
10:03 Almaraz has landed that left hook.
10:05 She has landed that left hook in every round.
10:08 She is not able to land it enough.
10:11 Munguia comes right back with the quicker hands.
10:14 [crowd shouting]
10:20 This is some pretty good action in the fourth and final round.
10:23 [crowd shouting]
10:26 Munguia talked about this fight
10:29 and how in the future, Doug, she wants to maybe try to cut a little more weight
10:33 and fight a little bit longer rounds, more rounds.
10:36 Yeah, she wants to go more rounds.
10:38 That's more experience.
10:40 It also opens her up to a higher level of opponent.
10:45 [crowd shouting]
10:47 She thinks she can eventually--
10:49 She knows she can get down to flyweight,
10:51 but maybe she can eventually get down to junior flyweight,
10:53 which is 108 pounds,
10:56 in a very, very competitive division in women's boxing.
10:59 [crowd shouting]
11:03 I got to believe the fans here in Southern California
11:06 would love to see more of Gloria Munguia.
11:08 I think her fan support grows with each bout,
11:12 just as her skill level grows with each bout,
11:16 because I'm going to say
11:19 this fight has been her best technical performance.
11:24 Just from a pure skill level, this has been her best fight.
11:27 [crowd shouting]
11:29 Kudos to 360 and the matchmakers.
11:32 He's stepped his opponent,
11:34 and Amiraz here has given Munguia all the fight she wants.
11:37 Yeah, and listen, Amiraz is showing what she's made of
11:42 in the final seconds of this round.
11:44 She fought to the final bell.
11:47 Really game opponent was Amiraz.
11:50 Gloria Munguia, though, really set the tone early,
11:52 getting that knockdown.
11:54 And again, the ladies, they come to fight, guys.
11:57 And on his four rounds.
11:59 [crowd chanting]
12:03 A performance that Gloria Munguia
12:05 can look back at and be proud of.
12:08 And same for Lillian Almaraz.
12:10 She was hurt early in the fight,
12:12 but continued to come forward,
12:14 bite down on the mouthpiece,
12:16 and she gave it her all.
12:18 [crowd shouting]
12:20 Yeah, I think everybody that Gloria Munguia
12:22 has fought so far in her pro career,
12:24 they've all been competent.
12:26 Some of them were more experienced than others.
12:29 Some of them, let's be frank,
12:31 they didn't really have much experience to speak of.
12:35 But they had a warrior's heart,
12:37 and they were competent in there.
12:39 They actually had pretty good coaches.
12:42 [crowd shouting]
12:46 Take a look at some of the action here.
12:49 This is the end of the round.
12:51 They were swinging to the final bell.
12:54 Yeah, Almaraz really emptied the tank.
12:57 And Munguia did a good job
12:59 to avoid a lot of those head shots.
13:02 But she was caught as well,
13:04 to the body and the head, just as Almaraz was.
13:08 As we said, that spine between Steffi Kohn
13:10 and Munguia benefited both of them.
13:12 It was very obvious in their two fights.
13:16 Coming up next, our Komen event,
13:18 Umar Chambekov, the nine-time Austrian champion,
13:21 takes on Chris Bulo, Javier Andino.
13:25 That's our Komen event headed your way next,
13:27 as part of Hollywood Fight Nights.
13:29 To crown our winner of this fight,
13:31 we go to Joe Martinez.
13:33 And now, ladies and gentlemen, after four rounds,
13:35 we go to the judges' scorecards,
13:37 and all three see it, 39-36.
13:39 Your winner by unanimous decision,
13:42 from Los Angeles, Gloria Munguia!
13:49 [bell dings]
13:51 Gloria Munguia able to pick up win number four as a pro.
13:55 Now four, one, and one.
13:58 And a solid performance.