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finishes Bonilla after seven rounds in first title defense On February 4 Celestino "Pelenchín" Caballero had an appointment at the Figali Convention Center with Nicaragua's Roberto "Chucky" Bonilla. Chucky put up a valiant fight, but it's most unlikely he'll be back. This was Caballero's first defense of his WBA super-bantamweight belt, really a mismatch at that level of the sport. The two fighters might weigh about the same, but their physiques are remarkably different. Caballero is taller and thinner, while Bonilla is shorter and more solid. The difference in reach required the latter to take the aggressive role, moving inside to get that winning punch. This he attempted to do from the opening bell, but by the time the first round ended it was Caballero on the attack. I scored the round even, but that was the last time the Nicaraguan did so well. The second asalto began something like the first, but in the last minute Caballero tagged Bonilla with a couple of rights and three lefts, asserting complete dominance. In the next round the champ hit the challenger with a shot that caused a delayed reaction fall to the knee, and by the fourth Bonilla's face was beginning to look pretty beaten up. It wasn't that Chucky didn't get any licks in, but it seems that Pelenchín can take a punch, and give several in return. Again in the fifth Caballero decked the challenger. The fight had become so one-sided that it looked very likely that it wouldn't go the 12-round distance. And it didn't. Bonilla couldn't come out for round number eight, giving the champion his victory by TKO. So just how brilliant is this young Panamanian boxing star? Give us a title unification bout against a WBO, WBC or IBF champ, or at least a match with someone who doesn't bring a record with six defeats into the ring with him, and we might learn the answer to that question.
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