Gesta Defeats Diaz In Thriller
Former world title challenger Mercito Gesta scored a thrilling ten round unanimous decision over Lightweight contender Joel Diaz on Thursday night at the Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino in Indio, CA. In his first bout in two and a half years, Gesta came out with intentions of ending the fight early and quickly found a home for his left hand out of the southpaw stance. It was Gesta’s straight left hands that badly hurt Diaz and dropped him twice in the first round. Diaz seemingly just barely made it out of the first round and was subsequently told by his trainer that he would be given one more round . From the second round on however, Diaz remained more than willing to engage with Gesta in what became a toe to toe war. A fight that was fought at a high pace from start to finish and featured no shortage of heated exchanges of offense between the two fighters, the general pattern was Gesta was able to get the better of most of the exchanges. The grueling battle...