The Jr. Featherweight division saw four fighters come out of the preliminary set of bouts undefeated...but only three made the tournament.
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At the time of the tournament to determined the first LSUBF Jr. Featherweight champion, Oscar Larios was 10-0 with 10 knockouts. Yet Larios was ranked fifth, missing the tournament cut by one slot.
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Top-ranked Celestino Caballero (12-0, 11 KO) was to fight #4 Yober Ortega (14-2, 14 KO) in one semifinal matchup, while Somsak Sithchatchawal (13-0, 11 KO) battled Juan Guzman (10-0, 10 KO).
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Caballero and Ortega unleashed bombs, each dropping the other twice. But the last one is the one that mattered, and it came in the sixth when Caballero put Ortega down and Ortega stayed down for the knockout to send Caballero to the championship bout.
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Meanwhile, Sithchatchawal survived a knockdown in the seventh to earn a split decision win over Guzman, 115-112, 115-113, 113-114 as Guzman's frenetic pace didn't lead to much contact - just 17% - save the knockdown.
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They came in a combined 27-0 with 23 KOs, so prognosticators expected a shorty and they were right...very right. Caballero starches Sithchatchawal at 2:31 of the first for the stunning knockout to become the first LSUBF Jr. Featherweight champ!
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Caballero sought to fight frequently, and successfully defended the title twice - a 4th round TKO against Ricardo Cordoba and a 3rd round stoppage against Joan Guzman - in the first 60 days as champion.
A shock coming out of the prelims was Clarence "Bones" Adams having four losses on his docket by the time the tournament began. But while the tournament was going on Adams picked up a couple of victories and Caballero, sensing an exciting opponent who would stay in front of him and get hit, chose Adams for his next defense.
Eight rounds later, Caballero was on his back and the belt was around Adams' waist.
Adams would make his first defense against Mahyar Monshipour and win via 13th round TKO before taking n Caballero in his mandatory rematch.
Adams would get the job done again in the 8th round, this time knocking Caballero out to retain the title.
He'd then face Larios, who had reached 17-0 by that point. But Adams won via TKO in the 11th in a scintillating performance. He would then stop Monshipour again in the 12th before defending against Salim Medjkoune, only to lose the title when the fight was stopped in the 11th due to a severe cut over Adams' right eye - a cut that hadn't stopped him from dropping Medjkoune twice and leading in commanding fashion on all cards to that point.
Medjkoune decided to risk his new title against Larios, whom Medjkoune put on a fantastic performance against, stopping him by TKO in 9th.
Three months later, Medjkoune would defend against the powerful Yober Ortega, who dominated the first five rounds of the fight and put Medjkoune on the canvas four times in total en route to a unanimous decision victory 147-138, 146-139, 144-140.
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It would be 11 months before Ortega defended, and when he did it was to Yoddamrong Sithyodthong, who entered at a nondescript 12-10 (4 KO)....Ortega cruised to a unanimous decision victory, but is now up for his mandatory defense against either Medjkoune or Adams, and is in danger of being stripped of the title.
