Moreu holds her own with world champ in Team Combat League debut
Apr. 11—Wednesday in Philadelphia, Albuquerque's Sharahya Moreu split two rounds with a former world champion in helping her Philadelphia Smoke defeat the LA Elite in a Team Combat League match.
Moreu, 2-0 as a professional with one knockout, was facing in the person of Argentina's Erica Anabella Farias a seasoned pro with a 27-8 pro record and 10 KOs. Farias has held the WBC lightweight and junior welterweight titles, successfully defending each of those belts several times.
Now, 39, Farias entered Wednesday's TLC card having lost six of her last seven bouts. But three of those losses came in world title fights against champions Jessica McCaskill and Mikaela Mayer.
GOLDEN GLOVES: Saturday's Colorado-New Mexico Golden Gloves regional tournament in Longmont, Colorado, won't take long to conduct.
Only six bouts are scheduled, with two New Mexico boxers and five Colorado fighters advancing unopposed to Golden Gloves nationals (May 13-18 in Detroit).
Among the bouts scheduled to be contested on Saturday, a men's 125-pound match between Albuquerque's Yoruba Moreu Jr. and Colorado's Mariano Martin appears to be the headliner.
Moreu defeated Martin by unanimous decision last month at the USA Boxing National Open at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Moreu went on to the 125-pound final before losing to Olympic Trials champion Jordan Fuentes.
Two National Open champions from New Mexico will advance unopposed to nationals, though one of them — 146-pounder Ariana Carrasco — would have fought for Colorado on Saturday had there been a New Mexico opponent.
Carrasco, a Las Cruces native, fights for the U.S. Army boxing team based in Fort Carson outside Colorado Springs.
Albuquerque's Leroy Clark, the National Open super heavyweight champion (203 pounds-plus), is unopposed at GG regionals.
New Mexico 112-pounder Jimmie Perez also is unopposed. New Mexico boxers scheduled to compete on Saturday, other than Moreu, are:
Trevion Boyd, 132 pounds., vs. Colorado's Adan Villa;
Devon Garcia, 147, vs. Colorado's Prakasa Sunawar;
Ruben Farfan, 156, vs. Colorado's Brandon Lanza;
Kevin Whitaker, 165, vs. Colorado's Francisco Hernandez;
Alvaro Garcia, 176, vs. Colorado's Quais Alizada.
