Professional Boxing

Yanez will face Joseph Rios on June 19 in Frisco as the main event of a five-bout card.

Benjamin Flores had been in the hospital for five days after being taken from the ring on a stretcher.

In the evening’s main event Taronze Washington of Dallas won the Texas junior middleweight title with a vicious knockout of Quinton Whittaker of San Antonio.

Vazquez controlled the action early, but got careless later in the round.

Yanez weathered some tough moments against the very game Julio Cesar Valadez of San Antonio.

The 2008 Olympian got more publicity than any junior flyweight in recent memory when his coach kicked him off the team a couple of weeks before the Games.

The young fighter announced at an Aug. 20 press conference that he is ready to pursue professional ranks.

Yanez apparently put family first, like they say to do in the movies, and he paid the price.