(Montreal) Yves Ulysse Jr.’s evening at work didn’t last long at the Cabaret du Casino de Montréal, but it wasn’t a positive one. The Montrealer was struck down in the first moments of the fight by a solid right uppercut to the chin from Mexican Gabriel Gollaz Valenzuela.
Gollaz Valenzuela (26-3-1, 16 KOs) had already landed some good shots in the face of Ulysse (22-3, 12 KOs), who thus suffered a third career defeat, after only 52 seconds of elapsed in the first round of this fight presented in the semi-final of the shock between Erik Bazinyan and Alantez Fox.
Ulysses instantly fell to the mat. He got up quickly, but was simply unable to stand. Referee Martin Forest had no choice but to announce the end of the clash.
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Yves Ulysses Jr.
The welterweight said earlier this week that he would end his career if he were to lose this fight. We will have to see if he will walk the talk now. But one thing is certain, Ulysses hasn’t seemed interested all week in promoting this fight. The heart no longer seems to be there.
Its promoter, Camille Estephan of Eye of the Tiger Management, had also indicated that it was a trap fight. He was not wrong.
Expeditious Gaumont
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Alexandre Gaumont
Alexandre Gaumont (7-0, 6 K.-O.) did not drag. The Gatineau middleweight took down Carlos Gallejo Montijo (8-5, 6 KOs) in less time than it takes to walk to the ring. After a solid right uppercut which hit Gallejo Montijo’s chin, Gaumont followed up with a direct left which caused the Mexican to lose sound and image. All this in just 2:26 action.
Welterweight Christopher Guerrero (6-0, 2 KOs) worked methodically against Mexican Edwin Villareal Flores (3-1-1, 3 KOs). Guerrero’s counterattacks were sharp and incisive, with Villareal Flores finding too few responses to his opponent’s hooks. After a third fall to the mat at 2:49 of the third assault, Yvon Goulet signaled the victory of the Montrealer of Mexican origin.
Avery Martin-Duval (9-0-1, 5 KOs) got the better of Mexican Eduardo Mota Garcia (7-2-1, 2 KOs) by referee stoppage in the third round. The Hawkesbury super featherweight stopped Mota Garcia at 1:51 after hitting him solidly with a counterattacking left hook to the head. After driving Martin-Duval back to the neutral corner, referee Forest found that Mota Garcia was unable to continue and signaled an end to hostilities.
In his professional debut, Wilkens Mathieu (1-0, 1 K.-O.) made short work of the Hungarian Zsolt Birkas (0-1-1). The super-middleweight from Quebec knocked down his opponent three times in the first round. Referee Érick Philippeaux stopped the fight after 2:49 of one-sided exchanges.