By Ryan Burton & Mark DeSisto

Las Vegas - In the 1st bout of the evening, Puerto Rican Hector Marengo (5-0-1) fought to a draw versus Edgar Portillo (6-3-1) in their super featherweight bout.  It was a slow paced fight where neither fighter could gain the upper hand for long. Scores were 58-56 56-58 and 57-57.

In the second fight Filipino Mark Melligen improved to 17-2 after scoring a TKO to hand Raymond Gatica (11-1) his first professional loss. Referee Kenny Bayless stopped the fight at the 2:36 mark of the 6th round.

17 year old sensation Jose Benavidez (2-0) scored a TKO at the 1:07 mark of the 1st round when his opponent John Vega (0-2) quit while being engulfed by a flurry of punches.

Undefeated middleweight prospect Matt Korobov came out of his corner with bad intentions, blitzing Lamar Harris with a two fisted attack until referee Robert Byrd  halted the bout at 1:05 of the first round. St. Louis native Harris (6-5-3,4KO) was immediately forced to the ropes and couldn't land the counterpunch he was looking for to hold off the former Russian Olympian Korobov (10-0,8KO), who got the first round knockout that he was clearly looking for.

Top Rank prospect, Diego Magdaleno, remained undefeated with an (80-72,78-74,79-73) unanimous decision victory over Italy's Floriana Pagliara in an eight round Super Featherweight bout. After a slow first round, the fighters swapped punches in round 2, with Magdaleno (14-0, 6KO), outhustling Pagliara (10-4, 6KO) to take the lead in round 3. Southpaw Magdaleno had a strong fourth round and even better fifth round, landing some nice right hooks and a solid straight left that the Italian fighter took well. Pagliara came out with more conviction and punch volume to start the sixth round, but lacked the punching power to turn the fight in his favor as Magdaleno matched him punch for punch.