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Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero stops Jason Litzau in the eighth round to retain the IBF featherweight title ---------- Robert Guerrero knocked out Jason Litzau in the eighth round, defending his IBF featherweight title with two quick knockdowns to finish another dramatic victory. After taking a narrow edge during seven all-action rounds at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in central California, Guerrero (22-1-1, 15 KOs) suddenly flattened Litzau with a left uppercut and a hook in the eighth. Guerrero finished it a minute later with a quick right hook that left Litzau (23-2) sprawled on the canvas. "I knew he was hurt bad, but he's got up from something like that before and really got back into it," Guerrero said of the first knockdown. "But I got a little excited. It's like tasting blood in a steak. You want to go at it." Guerrero leaped onto the ropes to celebrate the second defense of the featherweight title he first won in September 2006 but then lost to Orlando Salido, who subsequently tested positive for steroids. Guerrero reclaimed the vacant title in February 2007 with a TKO of Spend Abazi. Six of his last seven fights overall have ended with sudden stoppages. Guerrero's wife, Casey, climbed into the ring for a postfight hug. The mother of two was diagnosed with leukemia late last year, only days before Guerrero fought Martin Honorio in Tucson, Ariz. While Casey was in the hospital back home in the Bay Area last fall, Guerrero -- who had barely slept in the previous ...
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Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero stops Jason Litzau in the eighth round to retain the IBF featherweight title ---------- Robert Guerrero knocked out Jason Litzau in the eighth round, defending his IBF featherweight title with two quick knockdowns to finish another dramatic victory. After taking a narrow edge during seven all-action rounds at the Tachi Palace Hotel and Casino in central California, Guerrero (22-1-1, 15 KOs) suddenly flattened Litzau with a left uppercut and a hook in the eighth. Guerrero finished it a minute later with a quick right hook that left Litzau (23-2) sprawled on the canvas. "I knew he was hurt bad, but he's got up from something like that before and really got back into it," Guerrero said of the first knockdown. "But I got a little excited. It's like tasting blood in a steak. You want to go at it." Guerrero leaped onto the ropes to celebrate the second defense of the featherweight title he first won in September 2006 but then lost to Orlando Salido, who subsequently tested positive for steroids. Guerrero reclaimed the vacant title in February 2007 with a TKO of Spend Abazi. Six of his last seven fights overall have ended with sudden stoppages. Guerrero's wife, Casey, climbed into the ring for a postfight hug. The mother of two was diagnosed with leukemia late last year, only days before Guerrero fought Martin Honorio in Tucson, Ariz. While Casey was in the hospital back home in the Bay Area last fall, Guerrero -- who had barely slept in the previous ...
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