Lopez stops Penalosa after nine, breaks Compubox records
Junior featherweight standout Juan Manuel Lopez successfully defended his WBO 122-pound title for the third time with a ninth-round TKO of former two-division titleholder Gerry Penalosa on Saturday in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Lopez (25-0, 23 knockouts) threw an incredible 1,020 total punches and landed a scary 444 to the head and body of the ultra-tough veteran in nine rounds of one-sided action, according to Compubox stats.
Penalosa (54-7-2, 34 KOs) was game throughout the beating he took, having never stopped punching or trying to win. However, the 36-year-old was taking too much punishment for his trainer Freddie Roach to allow his fighter to continue.
Lopez broke a Compubox record in the eighth round, when he landed 87 out of 136 total punches. Roach gave Penalosa one more round to make something happen. He didn't, so Lopez's title-fight KO streak (now at four in a row) continues.