SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Charles “LoLo” Harris Jnr, 11-1 (7 KOs), was given good work by gritty Californian lightweight Angel Rebollar on his way to an eight-round decision here at the Orange Show Events Center on Saturday.

Harris, from San Bernardino but fighting out of Omaha, Nebraska, won by margins of 79-73 across the board.

Ironically, in the first round, they matched each other’s best shots. Both landed right hands and then, as the round neared its conclusion, both scored with left hooks.

It was a spirited contest, with neither giving the other much to work with in the second but both trying to make something happen nonetheless. 

Rebollar is a good fighter but has been matched with eight undefeated opponents. In the third, Harris cracked him with a terrific right hand, but Rebollar was soon smiling back at him.

Harris’ trainer, Brian “BoMac” McInytre, urged his fighter to “keep stepping to him,” and Harris lashed Rebollar with two further hard rights before the bell to end the second. 

Rebollar, 8-5 (3 KOs), would often only nod or smile when hit, but he nodded and smiled a few times in the third. 

Harris’ right hand was a real problem for Rebollar, whether Harris led with it or filled it behind either a jab or hook. There were more right hands and more smiles in the fourth, and Rebollar complained about a low left hook in the next, but the referee did not respond and Harris simply kept on attacking.

With gym mate Terence Crawford ringside cheering him on, Harris found the target with right uppercuts in the seventh, and Rebollar celebrated making it back to his corner at the end of the session.

Both were given a great reception by the crowd coming out for the final round. Rebollar bit down and decisively marched forward, but Harris wasn’t going anywhere, standing his ground and firing back. 

Another McIntyre hope in the shape of tall southpaw welterweight Kelvin Davis, 15-0 (8 KOs), held the upper hand from the get-go against veteran Jose Marruffo.

By the end of the second, McIntyre was urging his fighter to go through the gears, shouting, “He done, he done.”

But Marruffo was game. Although he was up against it, he let his hands go for a moment when he had Davis in the corner in Round 2. But Davis was largely in charge, working at range but also happy to get in close, landing uppercuts to the head and body.

In the third, Davis pushed Marruffo off and connected with a solid left hand as Marruffo backed up, but his corner urged him to throw twos and threes. The gritty Marruffo fired back to the body with clubbing right hands, and even though his right eye began to close and he was feeling the pace, there was no quit in him.

Davis, from Norfolk, Virginia, came out for the fourth with more purpose, and Marruffo walked on to more than one rear-hand uppercut. The action was paused when the referee warned Davis’ corner for too much coaching, but that was the only reprieve Marruffo was afforded. Davis landed crisp hooks and more uppercuts on an increasingly uncomfortable night for Marruffo, who soaked up several heavy shots near the end of the session that soon caused the referee’s intervention. Marruffo protested the stoppage, but he was taking too much to have any argument, even if his heart didn’t give out.

Time of the stoppage was 2 minutes, 54 seconds.

Marruffo, who fights out of Phoenix, is now 15-16-2 (2 KOs).

Unbeaten lightweight hope Charlie Sheehy impressed with a workmanlike victory over Cesar Suarez.

Sheehy banked an impressive opening round, landing strong left hooks up and downstairs, and also firing rights into the pit of Suarez’s stomach. A 26-year-old from Brisbane, California, Sheehy was on top through the second, but he shipped occasional left hooks when caught coming out in a straight line. His variety was good, however, and he didn’t relent on looking for that right to the body.

Sheehy introduced the right uppercut more in Round 3, and one in particular looked venomous and caused blood to leak from Juarez’s nose.

But Mexico’s Juarez fought hard and kept coming forward, making Sheehy work to match him and earn the rounds he was winning. In the sixth, Sheehy showed another side of his game, using the ring to move and attack from range, but Suarez kept closing the distance. 

Suarez was docked a point for losing his mouthpiece a second time in the fight in Round 7, and, moments later, with Sheehy swinging away with both hands, the referee intervened at 2 minutes, 45 seconds. It seemed early, but the outcome of the bout had not been in doubt.

Sheehy is now 11-0 (6 KOs), while Suarez fell to 31-18 (24 KOs).

Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men’s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular “Boxing Life Stories” podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, is on The Ring ratings panel and is the author of five boxing books, including “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), “Warrior: A Champion’s Search for His Identity” (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and “The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands.” You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.