By: Sean Crose
17-1 Luis Melendez was on a Davis-Romero Pay Pew View card Saturday at Brooklyn’s Barclay Center. The lightweight team’s opponent is Eduardo Ramirez 26-2-3 and the match takes place according to the first half schedule. The opening chapter is essentially a perceptual process for each fighter. The second half was pretty poor, although Ramirez began to assert himself in the last minutes, effectively moving behind behind a tall defence.
Things start to pick up in season three, when male singer Ramirez begins to land – and hurt – his people. However, Melendez started the fourth by landing quite well on his own. Ramirez moves in to reassert his dominance and has powerful shots of his own. The fifth match was quite thrilling, with each boxer approaching and shooting from afar. Friday has both men continue to grind inside. It turned out to be an interesting fight.
Melendez seemed to slow down a bit in the seventh inning. Ramirez controlled most of the tempo in the eighth round. The ninth match was a brawl as each exhausted boxer struggled to gain an edge over his opponent. The 10th and final rounds were a matter of style, with Ramirez playing the puncher and Melendez the boxer.
The referees nodded with Ramirez passing the majority decision.
