Ramon Cardenas needed a round to warm up, then started digging at Erik Robles’ ribs like he was billing him by the organ. Robles did what badly overmatched southpaws do: he stood taller than he should, got greedy, and left his chin where a straight right could find it. One knockdown in the third, and then the final shot in the fifth — short, mean, and terminal. Robles didn’t fall so much as power down. That’s how you close a year on ProBox.
Cardenas said he knew he was “on another level.” Fighters say stuff like that. The difference is he threw with the confidence of a man who actually believed it. Call out Inoue. Call out Nakatani. It’s December. Everybody’s calling somebody out.
The co-feature? Hebert Conceicao basically hit Elias Espadas with an instructional video: levels, combinations, uppercuts chained together like he was practicing on mitts. Espadas hung around because men from Sinaloa tend to hang around. A dodgy knockdown in the tenth just padded the margins. Conceicao might’ve hurt his hand. It didn’t matter. Scores were academic.
Swingers, penalties, and the weird joy of mutual violence
Joeshon James and Yojanler Martinez gave you the full ProBox bingo card. Flash knockdown. Point deduction. Shoving. A slam to the mat. Then a simultaneous right hand where both men hit the deck like they’d agreed to it in the dressing room. Referee Parker needed a second to remember what sport he was officiating. Right call, wrong night for Martinez — majority decision to James.
Mykquan Williams treated George Pardo like a sparring session with consequences. Liver hooks, clean jabs, and a man taking a voluntary knee like he’d forgotten the rulebook. Pardo stayed upright until he couldn’t. Retirement after four. Functional violence.
Marlon Harrington and Bryan Polaco didn’t bother with pacing. Harrington got cut. Polaco felt confident — until he wasn’t conscious. One short right hook. Lights off. No count. That’s ProBox’s love language.
And Kenyan Valle? One-round confidence builder. Drop the guy, finish the guy, go home before the coffee cools.
These aren’t polished pay-per-views. They’re end-of-year truth serum. Someone leaves with momentum. Someone leaves wondering where their mouthpiece went. That’s why ProBox keeps putting these shows on. It may not be pretty, but it’s honest.
‘Functional violence’? What does that even mean? Sounds made up to make bad fights sound smart 🤔 That Pardo fight looked like a gym warm-up with lights on.
‘Functional violence’ is just code for sloppy beating 😂 That Pardo guy didn’t even look like he wanted to win.
‘Swingers, penalties, mutual violence’ — that don’t even sound like boxing to me, sounds more like street fighting! This ain’t the sweet science my grandpa told me about.
How come nobody talking about Conceicao? He fought way smarter than everyone else but folks only care about knockouts. The guy boxed perfect but still gets no hype.
Because fans just want blood and KOs now 🤦♂️ Skill don’t matter if you not dropping dudes every round apparently.
This ProBox stuff ain’t boxing like it used to be. Now it’s just people getting knocked out fast with no defense. They just swing and pray they land something.
People act like calling out Inoue means you ready for him. Just because Cardenas won don’t mean he can beat real champions. He ain’t proven nothing yet except Robles was weak.
Exactly! It’s easy to look good when your opponent standing there like a punching bag. Try that with someone who hits back and moves smart and we’ll see what happens 😤
I don’t care what anyone says, Robles shouldn’t have been in the ring with Cardenas. You could see from the start he wasn’t on the same level. That’s not fair fighting!