Homer Fonseca, right, unloads a vicious right hand on IBC World Champion Hector Ferreyro during their title fight in Laredo on Friday. Fonseca would go on to lose the match by a questionable majority decision. Kingsville’s Homer ‘El Oso’ Fonseca was the recipient of a grossly horrendous majority decision loss against hometown fighter and International Boxing Council Heavyweight Champion Hector ‘the Hurricane’ Ferreyro in Laredo on Friday night.

The champion was making his fifth defense of the title and the challenger was fighting in his first career twelve-round match; his previous longest fight went eight rounds.

THE FIGHT

Fonseca was the more aggressive fighter since the opening bell landing four hard punches to Ferreyro’s head in the first round. Ferreyro continued running away from Fonseca in the second round as the challenger persistently pursued. Most of the crowd by this time were chanting ‘Oso’ with only a handful cheering for the world champion.

The champion threw more punches in the third round but Fonseca absorbed the blows and returned fire.

Fonseca twice backed Ferreyro into the corner, in the fourth round, before the champion began throwing heavier shots.

There was less activity from both fighters in the fifth and sixth rounds as each became a little winded. Fonseca landed a hard punch here and there while Ferreyro’s light tags stalled the challenger and kept him at bay.

Fonseca knocked the champion down in the seventh round with a left jab, but the referee ruled it as a slip.

The champion swung more at his pursuer, in round eight, but fatigue really began wearing both fighters down.

Fonseca swung less in round nine whilst Ferreyro hit him a little more.

The challenger knocked down the champion, for the second time, in round ten with a right hook, but the referee again called it a slip.

Not wanting to allow Fonseca to land a big one, Ferreyro continued evading him in round eleven.

Round twelve was a brutal circus. Both fighters, at first, leaned against one another and exchanged body shots. Fonseca landed another hard right to the head of Ferreyro that sent the champion’s sweat flying off. Ferreyro connected with a couple of glancing shots. A hard one-two by Fonseca found Ferreyro as both fighters stood in the middle of the ring exhausted. Ferreyro tagged Fonseca with the same combination but those punches had little force behind them. Fonseca landed numerous hard rights to the head of Ferreyro as the champion stood his ground in the middle of the ring. The champion landed a hard shot on the challenger’s head that wobbled his legs a bit but Fonseca regained his balance.

With a little over a minute left in the match, Ferreyro began yelling ‘Let’s Go’ at Fonseca. Ferreyro continued his lip service even after Fonseca landed another stiff one-two along with other single shots before the final bell rang.

Fonseca received a large applause by the crowd as he waved to them while the judges’ scores were being tabulated. Ferreyro, on the other hand, was booed loudly. The crowd also heatedly jeered the judges’ decision as Ferreyro raised his hands and smiled.

THE GOOD

Plain and simple, FONSECA WON THE FIGHT. I say this because I was there. Fonseca repeatedly landed his thumping right hand all night long prompting Ferreyro to go into run-for-your-life mode. One of El Oso’s only consolation was knowing he had won over the crowd.

“I am not a judge, they have a job to do, but I believe the Mexican people down here had a better sense then these judges so I am going to go with them,” Fonseca said. “I feel like I won the fight and I was very disappointed in the decision.”

Fonseca said he overwhelmed Ferreyro the old fashioned way.

“I beat him old-school, I am a straight up brawler which is what the heavyweight division is all about,” Fonseca said. “Somewhere in all of these years of boxing, we have evolved into this straight up technical fighter that does not want to get hit. That’s not what boxing is built on, you’re supposed to get in there, throw shots and take them; and until we start going back to that, all of our boxing fans are going to start watching MMA instead.”

THE SAD

“Those guys think they won,” one of Ferreyro’s handlers said after the match, “They don’t know anything about boxing.”

Ferreyro, himself, went as far as saying he was not impressed with Fonseca’s power.

“I don’t think he hits that hard, I banged him for twelve rounds, I gave him a boxing lesson and that was it,” Ferreyro said. “The heavyweight division is a very dangerous one and a single punch can knock you out. I gave him the opportunity in the final thirty seconds to do it and he couldn’t. I don’t know where he gets his ‘power’, maybe his grandma.”

The Hurricane went on saying he was in control during the whole fight.

“He never had me in any danger, never hurt me and I think I took his shots real well,” Ferreyro said. “This was just a walk in the park.”

Ferreyro added that he will not give Fonseca a rematch.

“Not right now because we want to go up, we don’t want to go down,” Ferreyro said. “I beat him easy, after the fifth round the guy was gassed. I wanted to make them (Team Fonseca) pay for twelve rounds for what they had said. I just boxed him and by the third round he was losing gas and he wouldn’t even exchange with me.”

THE ALMOST UGLY

Another fight almost took place afterwards. A couple of Kingsville fans approached the ringside area shouting obscenities at Ferreyro to the point where security needed to be summoned.

Officials stood in front of the angry Fonseca fans as Ferreyro was told to stay back from the ringside exit while the situation was being handled.

Trainer Jaime Cantu and the card’s promoter stepped in and eventually got everyone to walk away. Losing our heads in this situation would only have led to the Kingsville fans being arrested in Laredo - which is kind of far from home - and that would not have been pleasant. Nor would it have accomplished anything.