Cervera tries to follow up and one of his blows did land after the bell, prompting a warning from referee Benjy Esteves, Jr. Seconds before the end of the fifth, Cervera nailed Brady with an overhand right that stunned him. It became a game of single shots where Brady would vocalize with each blow he threw. While Brady looked to pick his shots, Cervera was landing a few of his own, bloodying Brady’s lower lip by the end of the second. had a tougher than expected task in Colombian Ruben Cervera. Even though 2023 is only 14 days old, it will take some doing to pass this is the round of the year! The final scores were 97-91 and 98-90 twice, all for Nova who comes back with a hard fought win after his loss to Robeisy Ramirez last year, raising his record to 22-1 15 KOs. It was amazing that nobody went down, but Nova capped the round and the fight off by staggering Lopez with the final blows of the fight. Both men teed off on each other seemingly non-Stop for easily two out of the three minutes that the round lasted. The tenth and final round was something out of the movies. Nova was able to hop on his bicycle in the ninth and hold off a charging Lopez with his jab. Lopez managed to gather himself in the seventh and actually appeared to take the eighth, snapping Nova’s head with some beautiful combinations at the end of the round. Nova was credited with another knockdown in the sixth, as Lopez tried to hold on after being raked along the ropes and stumbled to the canvas when he couldn’t keep his grip on a backpedaling Nova. As Nova tried to cut off the ring and follow up on his advantage, he could be heard saying, “It’s my birthday…I got to get this win,” to a retreating Lopez. In the fifth, a beautiful right-left-right combination deposited Lopez hard on his back. After three tactical rounds, things heated up in the fourth with a nice toe to toe exchange late in the round. In a highly skilled and very tactical fight, Junior Lightweights Abraham “Super” Nova and Adam “Blu Nose” Lopez lived up to the predictions that they might deliver the fight of the night.
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