In an excellent lesson on brains beating brawn, Raul Marquez, 36, won a unanimous decision over bigger, stronger Giovanni Lorenzo, 27, at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, with all three judges scoring the fight 114-113 for Marquez. FightTube scored the fight 117-111 for Marquez.

After a nervous first three rounds in which Lorenzo’s speed and size obviously bothered Marquez, the veteran southpaw began reading and ducking the young Dominican’s rights then going to the body. By the middle rounds Marquez pulled an effective jab out of his quiver and kept the less experienced Lorenzo turning, unable to plant his feet and land the big right hand he had kept cocked all night.

A bad cut over his right eye and a late surge by an increasingly desperate Lorenzo weren’t enough discourage Marquez, who entered the fight as the IBF #4 ranked middleweight and exited as the IBF mandatory for Arthur Abraham, who also won at the Hard Rock tonight, scoring a fourth round KO over Edison Miranda.