By Cliff Rold

23-year old interim WBA 115 lb. titlist David Sanchez (28-2, 22 KO) of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, stayed busy on Saturday night at the Centro de Usos Multiples, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico with an easy second round stoppage of 33-year old former Flyweight title challenger Walberto Ramos (23-7-2, 16 KO) of Monitos, Colombia, in non-title action.

The referee was Julio Cesar Mariscal.

Sanchez lived up to his nickname “Tornado” from the start, dropping Ramos with an attack in the first. In an odd sequence, Sanchez appeared to drop Ramos in the corner in the second but Sanchez kept punching and Ramos stood up so Mariscal let it keep going. Moments later, Sanchez dropped him again for the second official knockdown. Ramos rose but it was a formality. Sanchez scored one more knockdown off a right hand to end the suffering at 2:42 of the second.

Sanchez wins his 17th in a row and third in a row by knockout. Ramos sees a seven fight win streak snapped and suffers the fifth knockout loss of his career. As interim titlist since May 2014, one would think Sanchez will eventually get a shot at WBA titlist Kohei Kono but time will tell.

In the televised opener, 22-year old Jr. Lightweight Adrian Young (22-1, 18 KO) of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, held off a spirited effort from an inexperienced foe, rallying from a bruising ninth to score a stoppage in the closing seconds of the tenth and final round over Marco Antonio Juarez (8-4-1, 3 KO) of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. The referee was Julio Cesar Mariscal.

Well behind, Juarez kept plugging away, punching with Young as the rounds ticked by and swelling his left eye. In the ninth, Juarez hurt Young to the body and had him on the back foot. In the tenth, Young dug in and hammered away, battering Juarez in the corner as Mariscal waved the fight off with 12 seconds to go.

The card was televised in the US on BeIn Sports Espanol.

Cliff Rold is the Managing Editor of BoxingScene and a member of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and the Boxing Writers Association of America.  He can be reached at roldboxing@hotmail.com