San Diego cousins Julius Ballo and Jonny Mansour both won their fights as part of Saturday\u2019s \u201cSD Fight Night: Family Business\u201d card at Oceanside\u2019s Frontwave Arena, remaining undefeated in their respective pro careers.<\/p>\n
Ball improved to 3-0 with a unanimous super-featherweight victory over Santa Ana\u2019s Roman Reyes (6-2). Ballo won 60-54 on all three scorecards.<\/p>\n
\u201cI took this fight minute-by-minute, punch by punch,\u201d said Ballo. \u201cThis is only my third professional fight, but as the fight went on, I felt more and more comfortable. I thank my coaches for the brilliant game plan. Reyes had a lot of experience, but I studied so hard for this fight. Everything in the ring comes naturally to me. I was born for this; I know boxing is my purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mansour, Ballo\u2019s cousin and a fellow product of El Cajon\u2019s Bomber Squad Academy, improved to 7-0 with an eight-round unanimous decision over Perris\u2019 William King (6-4-2).\u00a0 All three judges gave Mansour an 80-72 victory on their scorecards in the lightweight fight.<\/p>\n
Mansour said it was \u201ca blessing\u201d to share the card with his cousin.<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Diego doesn\u2019t have a world champion,\u201d he said. \u201cImagine if \u2018JuJu\u2019 and I became world champions on the same night.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other fights:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Daniel Morales (9-0, 5 KOs) beat Tijuana\u2019s Alejandro Quintana (7-1-1, 5 KOs) by unanimous decision in an eight-round welterweight bout.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Oceanside\u2019s Angel Munoz (9-2, 5 KOs) beat Mexico\u2019s Cruz Becerra (3-2, 1 KO) by unanimous decision in a six-round super welterweight bout.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pedro Angel Cruz (6-6, 4 KOs) knocked out San Diego\u2019s Angel Estrada (12-2-1, 9 KOs) in the first round of their super-lightweight bout. It was Estrada\u2019s first loss since 2011.<\/p>\n
\u2022 San Diego\u2019s Richard Fernandez Jr. (5-0, 3 KOs) beat Sugary Montales (6-3, 4 KOs) by unanimous decision after the two fought six rounds in their super-bantamweight bout.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Oceanside\u2019s Kyle Erwin (11-3, 5 KOs) beat Phoenix\u2019s Jose Marruffo (15-20-2, 2 KOs) with a fight-round knockout in their welterweight bout.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Chula Vista\u2019s John Ornelas (6-2-1, 3 KOs) won his fight with a first-round TKO, while San Diego\u2019s Angel de la Cruz Ramirez and Vista\u2019s Franklin Garcis (2-0, 2 KOs) won their fights by knockout.<\/p>\n
More than 5,000 fans attended the fight, the first major boxing card at the new Oceanside arena.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great feeling,\u201d Ballo said, \u201cto see 5,000 fans in attendance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego cousins Julius Ballo and Jonny Mansour both won their fights as part of Saturday\u2019s \u201cSD Fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-275837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}