| Cruz, Salido Results |
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| Written by Richard Baker | |
| Monday, 27 October 2008 | |
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Boxing fans will be hard-pressed to find a better Northwest fight of the year than the one staged at Northern Quest Casino, in Airway Heights, Washington on Thursday, Oct. 23, when Cristobal Cruz (36-11-1) squared off against Orlando Salido (31-9-2) for the vacant IBF featherweight championship in a fight televised on the Versus Network. Promoters Arthur Pelullo and Rodney Berman had planed for a fantastic fight and no plan ever went better.
Although Salido came in as the favorite, Cruz, who had just come off a fantastic upset win over Thomas Mashaba at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut by throwing 1,580 punches, carried that enthusiasm into this bout. He was all fists as he went after Salido who gave almost as good as he got. The umber of punches thrown by Cruz was not unusual for a man holding the record of most punches in a bout by Compubox. Salido exchanged throughout and never let but started to fade the final rounds. 
Cruz took the bout by close split decision and adds this championship to his others including the present IBO Featherweight Championship, and has held the WBC Fecarbox Championship, WBC Latino Super Featherweight Champinship, the WBA Fedecentro Featherweight Championship, and the WBC Continental Championship. Salido, a 12 year veteran from Mexico, has been fighting as a pro since the age of 15 and was undefeated in his last 8 fights. He did not go gently into that good night. He could taste the championship and fought like it was already his. He is no stranger to tough fights and has gone against Robert Guerrero, Cesar Soto, Juan Manuel Marquez, Alfred Kotey, Alejandro Gonzalez, and Regilio Turr. That experience served him well and he carries more guts than a Minnesota meat wagon. He will return. 
Olympic contender Demetrius Caesar Andrade made a stunning debut against Patrick Cape (4-2-0) in a 4 round fight. Andrade made his name at the Olympics, not by winning the gold, but by losing a decision to Korea's Kim Jung-Joo in one of the most controversial fights in Olympic history. He made up for it on this night putting away Cape at 24seconds of reond 2.. 
Maxin Vlasov (13-0, 5KO) added to the excitement by showing that Russian fighters are made of steel. He looked like a Russian T-34 tank rolling over the Wehrmacht on the Russian plains as he kept forging ahead. Unfortunately, Dom Mouton ((7-2-0) had other ideas. Mouton stated chopping up Vlasov early. Somehow, he thought hew was supposed to win the fight. By round 6 Vlasov was bleeding from cuts over his left eye and beside his nose. A round earlier Vlasov had changed his tactics and had decided to box rather than fight. It served him well as he won a close split decision. |
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