February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
“The plan is always to take them out as soon as possible,” the L.A.-based unbeaten featherweight prospect said at the weekend as he prepared for the scheduled eight rounder against 32-year-old late bloomer Angelo Torres.
“I don’t know an awful lot about him, other than he’s a tough, durable [guy], and that I expect him to give me the rounds. Typical Mexican,” he added.
That’s unlikely, given that the light hitting Torres, who fights out of Lakewood, Wash., is 8-8-1 (win, loss, draw) with just three KOs in the paid ranks. He’s also been stopped twice by lesser fighters than Dunne, a concussive puncher with eight KOs on his 11-fight ledger.
According to the Boxing Records Archive Website, Torres was knocked out in two rounds by debutant Hugo Rosales in April 2000, and again by Eric Aiken, who needed only three minutes in their rematch in June 2002 to finish off what he’d started with a four-round win eight months earlier.
Torres’s last fight was a four-round decision win over one James Ramos last November.
Dunne, coming off a points decision over Panamanian veteran Evangelino Perez two weeks ago, announced that he was in tiptop condition.
“I’m feeling good and I’m in great shape,” Dunne said. “I’ve been boxing well and I’m feeling confident, especially after fighting opponents of the caliber of [Perez].”
Dunne’s appearance on the $5,000-a-table charity show is at the express invitation of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was at ringside when the 24-year-old Dubliner outclassed Mexican journeyman Oscar Villa over four rounds at last year’s event.