Patrick Lopez Outlasts the Bleeding Juaquin Gallardo

When a boxer answers every pre-fight question with “well, if the cut’s don’t open up” then you know the fight is going to be interesting and bloody. Such was the case in the ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights junior welterweight main event between Oakland native Juaquin Gallardo and Venezuelan Patrick Lopez. Gallardo was the aforementioned bleeder; he had had cuts open in four of his last six fights. His Scranton experience held to form.
After a clash of heads in the fifth a cut opened to the right of Gallardo’s nose. Despite the streaming blood Juaquin moved forward impervious to the …read more