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Tony Luis Defeats Adrian Estrella

By Jim Riddell

n Friday evening, June 21st, at
Othe Cornwall Civic Complex,
Tony Luis defeated WBC Continental
America’s Champion Adrian Estrella
for one of his biggest victories in
an eleven year professional boxing
career. Estrella came into the fight
with a record of 29 wins and three
losses (24 knockouts), with two of
those wins coming against former
world champions DeMarcus Corley
and Celestino Caballero. It was a
tough tactical fight that went to the
judges’ scorecards after ten rounds;
one judge having it a draw at 95-95,
and the other two judges each scoring
it 96-94 for Luis. Tony Luis had won
the fight but was unable to claim the
WBC belt because he wasn’t quite
able to make the 135 lightweight
limit; weighing in at 137 lbs.
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On his Facebook page the day
following the fight Tony explained, round, but Uruzquieta came on in the Luis’s former opponents Jovanni Daniel Sanchez of Mexico. Larone
later rounds with the bout ending in Straffon defeated Edgar Ramirez Whyte of Mississauga improved
saying that “I haven’t made the
official lightweight limit in a year and a draw. by unanimous decision. Mohamed to 6-3 with a 5th round TKO over
a half. I hit a wall at 137 and couldn’t In a crowd-pleasing lightweight Soumauro of Montreal remained Michel Polina. In the opening bout of
undefeated at 8-0, winning a the evening Ariel “Chico” Gonzalez
shed the last two pounds. The new bout that featured two of Tony
arrangements meant I couldn’t win unanimous decision over a tough of Mexico and Maxime Lepage of
Montreal fought to a draw.
the belt, but he would lose it if I won,
and it would then become vacant.
My new motive was ‘if I can’t have
it, neither can he’. My son was my
last thought before the last round and
I wanted to seal the deal. Had it not Saturday, August 10, 2019
been for the ropes saving him we
would have had a knockdown.”
Tony praised Estrella saying
that he was the best opponent that
he had faced since fighting Derry
Matthews in a world title bout held in
England in 2015. “He never let me
get comfortable. There was never a
moment where I could coast. Every
moment of every round counted and I Gold medalists
had to stay alert and be ready to adapt Bill Swinden and Mike Goyetche
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at all times. What a chess match, he
was champ for a reason”
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