Juan Urango stayed in the Jr. welterweight mix when he obliterated former contender Carlos Vilches with a hellacious right hook to win by 4th round KO on ESPN2. The 31-year old Argentinean Vilches, 53-8-2, 39 KO’s, tried to move and jab having moderate success early on against the stalking Urango, who bobbed and weaved with rigid movement. Vilches displayed some competent boxing skills but his defense was ordinary and he was dropped by a right hook at the end of round 1 but he escaped the round.

It wasn’t long before Vilches began to eat some Urango southpaw lead lefts that landed heavy. At 140 Lbs. Urango is physically the strongest looking fighter I have ever seen at that weight with a squared off body builder look. All of the rounds started the same with Vilches trying to box in the opening minutes but eventually getting trapped by the Columbian Urango and forced to slug. Vilches tried gamely to stand his ground but at 1:45 of the 4th he tried to slug with Urango with his back against the ropes when he ran into a textbook Urango right hook that nearly decapitated Vilches. Juan Urango was a -1100 boxing betting favorite against Carlos Vilches with the OVER\UNDER at 8.5 rounds.

Carlos Vilches wasn’t moving for several minutes from the brain scrambling blast but he eventually made it to his stool after 10 minutes. Urango, 20-1-1, 16 KO’s, is the #1 I.B.F contender for Italian slickster Paulie Malignaggi’s title belt and that fight should happen soon. Urango is a strong man that can hurt anybody if they can’t box well enough to keep him away but I think that the stylist Malignaggi would give Urango fits. I would have to make Paulie Malignaggi as an early 2-1 boxing betting favorite over Juan Urango.

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