Smith Makes Amends With Decisive Win : Boxing: He follows one-sided loss to Julio Cesar Chavez with junior welterweight victory at Country Club.

When last seen, Lonnie Smith of Las Vegas was running away from Julio Cesar Chavez like turkeys are running this week from men with axes.

After two weeks of boasting about the punishment he was going to administer to Chavez, the World Boxing Council’s super lightweight champion, Smith climbed into a ring in Las Vegas on Sept. 14, took one good body punch from Chavez in the opening seconds and folded.

He spent the next 11 rounds doing everything except crouching into a sprinter’s stance in his bid to escape demolition by the heavy-handed Chavez.

He did, surviving until the end and losing a lopsided decision that had fans streaming from the arena before the fight had ended. Those who stayed booed.

Tuesday night at the Country Club in Reseda in a junior welterweight bout, Smith appeared again, apparently having regained his breath from that night of the two-mile run. And against Ismael Diaz of Phoenix, Smith decided to fight.

His attack lasted 10 rounds and resulted in a unanimous decision.

Smith, 145 pounds, began bombing the outmanned Diaz from the opening seconds, thudding heavy lefts and rights against Diaz’s jaw almost at will. In the third round he landed a right to the chin with such force that Diaz’s cornermen rose from their chairs and grimaced.

But Diaz, 144, kept walking forward in a stunning show of bravery and lack of defense, never appearing hurt and hardly blinking.

The beating resumed in the fifth round when Smith, seconds into the round, landed the heaviest punch yet, flush on the chin of Diaz. This time, Diaz took one step back. And then he resumed his ill-advised advance on the heavily muscled Smith until the end.

Smith, 30, won the WBC super lightweight championship in 1985 with a victory over Billy Costello but lost it to Rene Arredondo a year later.

Smith is 30-3-1. Diaz is 18-7-2.

In an earlier bout, quick but light-punching Ricky Quiles of Campo, Calif., scored a unanimous decision over Pedro Anzaldua of Phoenix in an eight-rounder.

It was Anzaldua’s first fight after a four-year layoff. He is 15-4.

Quiles, 135, is 17-1-1 but has only four knockouts in his 19 pro fights and only one in his last nine bouts.

Rodney Toney, 159, also of Campo, earned a majority decision over Randy Smith, 157, of Azusa in a four-round middleweight bout that featured nonstop punching. Toney is 3-0. Smith is 3-1.

Also, heavyweight Louis Jackson of Ventura stopped Ray Dutson of Los Angeles in one round. Jackson, 198, is 3-1.