Happy hooking Emiliano Moreno found variation was the key to dismissing Sergio Gil

California welterweight prospect Emiliano Moreno improved to 11-0 (6 KOs) with an impressive fourth-round win over experienced Argentine Sergio Mauricio Gil in Kissimmee.

They fought on ProBox TV at the Osceola Heritage Park and Moreno looked good, including throwing six consecutive left hooks in round two, although he shipped one in reply.

“I’m usually a slow starter, but I am trying to work on that,” said the 19-year-old afterwards. “I’m trying to work on starting fast and starting strong, but my plan was to take it slow, and I knew it would come. I knew as soon as I had the opportunity, I’d take him out.

“I felt his punches, and once I felt his punches I felt like he couldn’t do damage to me, so I kept walking him down and walking him down, walking forward, and trying to be good with my defense but obviously some punches slipped in there, but the main goal was to land my punches and that’s what I did.”

Moreno’s first six fights took place in Mexico, but last night represented his fourth consecutive outing in Florida and on ProBox TV.

“I know I’m a slow starter so I tried to focus on my defense early on, analyse where I could hit him, where he’s open, where his guard was at, because his guard was pretty tight, so I felt going on the outside and sneaking uppercuts on the inside would work,” Moreno added. 

“I felt I was head-hunting too much, but once I started going to the body and when I went to the corner my father told me to stay on the body, be persistent with my jab, and to not give him many rounds, take it from here on out and I think he started staying there more and that was when I was able to land harder punches to the head.”