Suarez dominates Mansito, stretches winning run to 7

There was no knockout, only a dominant performance from Charly Suarez.

The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympian and three-time Southeast Asian Games champion outclassed Eduardo Mansito on Saturday, July 3, to show his readiness to contend for a regional title within the year.

Suarez, a silver medalist in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, earned the nod of all three judges, 99-90, 98-92, 100-89, at the Urdaneta City Cultural and Sports Complex in Pangasinan and stretched his winning run to 7 with 5 knockouts in the pro ranks.

Mansito dropped to 18-12-2 with 9 knockouts as he found no answer to Suarez’s speed and flurry of punches throughout the 10-round lightweight bout headlining the Relentless card of VSP Boxing and Cucuy Elorde of UKC Pro Boxing Edition.

Delfin Boholstz, Suarez’s trainer and manager, said on Friday he will be seeking a title eliminator or a title fight for Suarez, whose ring career got stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Suarez – the last victim of Vasyl Lomachenko in the amateur ranks in 2013 – is 32 years old and ripe for a title crack, according to Boholstz, also a former national boxer. – Rappler.com