Round Up: Jones Wins by Unanimous Decision

December 03, 2011 – Madison Square Garden, New York

12 Rds., WBA Super Welterweight Championship

Champ MIGUEL COTTO, 36-2, 29 KOs, Caguas, Puerto Rico

Vs

ANTONIO ‘TIJUANA TORNADO’ MARGARITO, 38-7-1, 27 KOs, Mexico

Undercard

Fight:  MIKE JONES, 25-0, 19 KOs, Philadelphia vs SEBASTIAN LUJAN, 38-5-2, 24 KOs, Rosario, Sante Fe, Argentina

Division:  12 Rds., IBF Welterweight Eliminator

Result: Jones Wins by Unanimous Decision 

Detail: Jones dominated the durable journeyman Lujan for the entire fight. The Philly fighter used his jab well, preventing his rugged opponent from doing much other than firing wild haymakers – big, loping, snap-less punches that had little meaningful impact. Jones’s best rounds were the opener, the fifth, and the twelfth. In the first, he hurt Lujan with a right to the side of the head, which had some at ringside predicting that Lujan was ready to go. Then, Jones ended the fifth with a flush right that backed Lujan up and sent him, dazed and confused, moseying to Jones’s corner at the bell. Finally, in the twelfth, Jones sent Lujan stumbling back into the ropes twice, before ending the fight on a high note by pinning Lujan in the neutral corner and working him over with until the bell.

Two of the judges scored it 119-109, the third 118-110.