THE camp of former WBC light flyweight champion Edgar Sosa is complaining over his second-round TKO loss to Filipino Rodel Mayol in Chiapas, Mexico, claiming that the head-butt which initially stunned the Mexican and opened up a cut on his cheek, caused his defeat.
The Sosa camp also want the fight declared a no-contest, while demanding a rematch.
Sosa claimed that Mayol intentionally fouled him and should have been disqualified, although the Mayol camp pointed out that it was a Mexican doctor, a certain Dr. Ibarra, who told Puerto Rican referee Roberto Ramirez after examining the cut and treating Sosa, to let the fight continue.
Ramirez said later that he merely followed the ring physician’s instructions. Sosa was also cut on the lip and nose.
Mayol, who hurt Sosa midway in Round 1 with a solid right hook as well as a left dropped the champion with a four-punch combination highlighted by a cracking left uppercut in Round 2, and then waded in and hammered Sosa with a series of lefts and rights, forcing referee Ramirez to stop the fight.
The Mexican commentators said it was a spectacular win and noted that Mayol was “fast” and his punches were “precise.”
After the head-butt, when Sosa was given time to have it attended to and also got a breather, while the referee informed the judges of the one point deduction, the champion didn’t appear badly affected and kept moving around and trying to counter, but Mayol was simply too good.
Sosa’s manager Jacques Deschamps claimed that it was the third fight in a row involving Mayol, where his opponent suffered injuries “provoked by his head.”
The two previous fights were against WBO champion Ivan Calderon when the fights were stopped due to an accidental clash of heads. The first title fight ended in a controversial draw in the sixth round on June 13, 2007 where Mayol appeared to have won and the second in another controversial win for Calderon when the fight was stopped in the seventh round last September 12.
What Deschamps failed to mention was that in his fight prior to his title defenses against Mayol, Calderon retained his title with a seventh-round technical decision over Hugo Fidel Cazares. also after an accidental clash of heads which opened a cut on Calderon’s forehead forcing the referee to stop the fight.
