By Lee Bates from FightNews at ringside
WBO junior featherweight champion Juan Manuel ‘Juanma’ Lopez (25-0, 23 KOs) scored a brilliant ninth round TKO over WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa (54-7-2, 36 KOs) on Saturday night at the Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Lopez was superb as he outpunched a very motivated Penalosa for nine brutal rounds. Penalosa’s trainer Freddie Roach stopped the fight between rounds nine and ten. Lopez has now scored 13 consecutive knockouts.
Jr welterweight Lamont Peterson (27-0, 13 KOs) claimed the WBO interim title when Willy Blain (20-1, 3 KOs) suffered a hand injury and was unable to go on in round seven. Time was 1:47.