Alexis Molina Aguirre vs Jesus Mercado Cabrera (28-06-2023) Full Fight
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00:00 ( speaking Spanish )
00:03 Man, he's all kinds of fired up now.
00:21 Building momentum to that main event
00:23 as we get set for our co-main,
00:25 scheduled for eight rounds,
00:28 Ivan Mercado and Alexis Molina.
00:31 Here we go!
00:35 It's time to fight.
00:37 The Southpaw, 5'0" and 1, just 18 years old,
00:41 a veteran of 45 amateur fights,
00:44 with a 43-2 record in the purple and silver trunks.
00:49 Santa Lua's own Alexis Molina in the blue and black trunks.
00:53 Might want to check the birth record of Mercado.
00:58 He doesn't even look 18.
01:02 Oh, goodbye, shot for Mercado.
01:04 Lanky, and he's the last man in replacement.
01:07 - Yeah. - Oh!
01:08 Another good shot for Mercado upstairs.
01:09 Oh, Southpaw, that's not an easy last man in replacement,
01:12 I'll tell you that.
01:14 Yeah, especially one with four knockouts in six fights.
01:15 And Molina, I guess we'd have to add on to the graphic
01:19 to get all the colors on those trunks.
01:21 Yeah, yeah.
01:23 Oh, man, I'm getting dizzy watching that.
01:24 I got to not look at those trunks.
01:26 [laughter]
01:28 Oh, good shot.
01:30 The 18-year-old on very short notice
01:32 would love to finish Alexis Molina on very short notice.
01:37 That looked like a knockout.
01:38 They're cranking both of their crosses.
01:40 I mean, Molina with the big right hand he's throwing,
01:42 and Mercado's looking for the big left hand.
01:45 Yeah, it's basically a left hand versus right hand.
01:46 Yeah.
01:48 Five wins, four knockouts for the 18-year-old.
01:51 Eight wins, two finishes for the 23-year-old Molina.
01:56 Round number one.
01:58 Mercado really loads up with that left hand.
02:00 There's opportunities for Molina to beat him to the punch
02:02 with just straight shots.
02:04 Yeah, punch inside him like that.
02:07 Three inches taller, and the reach
02:10 is a seven-inch reach advantage for the 18-year-old.
02:14 Sneaky little left lands on the chin of Molina.
02:17 Mercado needs to be careful.
02:25 He tends to get a little bit tall on the inside,
02:27 picks his chin up.
02:29 There's going to be opportunities
02:30 for Molina to counter that.
02:31 Yeah, especially that he can throw so hard, too.
02:33 You know, he ends up putting himself out of position
02:35 even when he misses.
02:38 There's a guy, you see him leaning back straight like that.
02:40 He's got to be careful.
02:42 Second undefeated fighter that Molina has faced.
02:46 Back in March, he earned a six-round unanimous decision
02:49 win over unbeaten Luis Alvarado.
02:55 Neither one of these guys are fighting like they're
02:56 an eight-rounder.
02:57 It looks like a four-rounder the way they're starting.
03:01 Good pressure from Molina.
03:03 30 seconds on the clock, round number one.
03:05 Oh, good left landed on the chin.
03:07 That's that nice little straight shot down the middle,
03:09 like I said, because Mercado is coming in,
03:14 leaving a lot of openings.
03:15 He's just loading up with that left hand.
03:17 Yeah, it seems like both guys are loading up on that
03:19 on the crosses.
03:20 We said earlier, you're not seeing a lot of combinations.
03:22 You're seeing daylight in between the punches.
03:24 Oh, good shot.
03:25 Oh, and a--
03:26 I said that, a combination by Molina.
03:30 Molina has a little better technique, though.
03:31 He brings those hands back to home,
03:34 where Mercado has his chin up in the air quite a bit.
03:37 Big left-hand shot.
03:46 See, I believe that was a knockdown.
03:47 He got hit with a straight right hand down the middle.
03:49 I think the ref was on the opposite side,
03:50 didn't get to see it.
03:51 Oh, no, I missed.
03:52 I missed.
03:53 I was incorrect.
03:55 They hit arms together.
03:57 Yep.
03:58 Good call by the ref.
03:59 He stepped on the lead foot that's made him go down.
04:01 I was really sure that Mercado was stepping in.
04:04 That one, though, that was--
04:05 Yeah, that was a land shot.
04:06 --a bunch of land shots there.
04:07 They both land shots.
04:08 [music playing]
04:12 Corner says, keep it going.
04:34 Good start.
04:35 You're doing very well.
04:37 Let's see more of the same.
04:38 Mercado, as I mentioned, four wins by knockout.
04:42 He is 5-0 and 1.
04:44 Three of those stops came in the very first round.
04:47 This is round number two.
04:50 I'm not surprised by that.
04:51 He started very fast in that first round,
04:52 letting that left hand fly.
04:54 Oh.
04:56 His pro debut, Chrissy got a stop
04:58 in the fourth and final round with 10 seconds on the clock.
05:03 Went the distance just one time, an eight-round unanimous
05:06 decision win.
05:07 And he gets knocked out.
05:09 What's up?
05:10 I was going to say, I mean, his corner
05:11 told him he was doing good.
05:12 I mean, he was aggressive.
05:13 But I wouldn't say he was doing good.
05:14 I thought Molina--
05:15 That might not be it.
05:16 He's not looking to get up.
05:18 Wow.
05:19 Wow.
05:20 It is all over.
05:21 Just like that.
05:23 So much for he was doing good.
05:24 Yeah.
05:26 Look at the wrong instructions in the corner.
05:27 That's what happens when you have a cheerleader for a coach
05:29 instead of a technician.
05:32 And for Molina, his two finishes came in his first two
05:37 professional fights, most recently back in June of 2021.
05:43 But he gets one here tonight on Pro Box TV.
05:46 Big left hook.
05:47 Right hand, yeah.
05:48 I believe it was that left hook.
05:49 That first left hook was hard.
05:51 Yeah, but you know what?
05:52 Ran into it.
05:52 You know what?
05:53 I mean, he was conscious, dude.
05:55 He took-- he willingly took a knee
05:56 and he willingly took a 10-count.
05:57 He chose to stay down.
05:59 Big left hook.
06:00 Right hand barely touches him.
06:02 That's a little late.
06:03 Molina still has a 25% knockout ratio going into the fight.
06:05 I mean, how are they really, really keeping you down?
06:09 And Paulie, as I mentioned, he hadn't had a finish
06:13 since his second professional fight.
06:15 Professional fight one and two were his two previous finishes.
06:19 He gets one here tonight.
06:21 Chris, you did-- you and Paulie mentioned
06:23 how Ivan Ricardo pulls back with his chin up
06:27 and he got caught with that exact thing, didn't he?
06:29 Yeah, he actually tried to do a pulling counter.
06:31 He stepped out.
06:32 And I mentioned the hand position earlier.
06:34 His hands were nowhere near home by his face.
06:36 And when he threw that left hand,
06:38 he ran into a left hook.
06:39 And I mean, you can't really--
06:41 you can't really blame Molina for, you know,
06:45 for making him pay for it or really the knockout shot.
06:48 I mean, it was a good shot, but--
06:49 That's why fundamentals matter.
06:50 Especially at close range, they matter more.
06:52 Round number one, they both came out looking for a finish.
06:59 Yeah, round number one was basically the battle
07:01 who was throwing the harder cross.
07:03 Yeah, it wasn't really a lot of big combinations.
07:05 It was just going back and forth,
07:07 missing a lot of crosses.
07:08 But then the stoppage there, you saw Ricardo comes up
07:12 and gets clipped, being too tall on the inside,
07:15 as Chris mentioned last round.
07:18 So Sinaloa's own Alexis Molina with the victory.
07:24 Getting set to make it official.
07:25 Victor Hugo Lopez Noriega.
07:29 [crowd cheering]
07:31 [speaking spanish]
07:36 And the winner,
07:38 a los 43 segundos del segundo round,
07:43 by the red corner, Alexis "El Chapito" Molina!
07:52 [crowd cheering]
07:54 Our fights tonight from Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico,
07:58 and so far, the Sinaloa, Mexico fighters are two and O.