Hernandez Stops Harris, Who Suffers Seizure After the Fight

Junior-lightweight Carlos Hernandez of Bellflower gave an overmatched and inexperienced Bernard Harris of Detroit a beating Monday night before scoring an eighth-round knockout before 2,845 at the Pond of Anaheim.

The fight was stopped at two minutes 26 seconds of the eighth round by Harris’ manager, Jackie Kallin.

Harris knelt down in the ring after referee James Jen-Kin stepped in and then collapsed on his back, where he stayed motionless for five minutes before he was taken out of the ring on a stretcher with an oxygen mask covering his face. Dr. Robert Karns, the ringside physician, said Harris eventually began responding to commands while in the ambulance.

“He suffered a seizure in the ring,” Karns said. “He gradually began to improve without us doing anything. That’s usually a good sign. If there’s any bleeding [in the brain], he wouldn’t have responded like that.”

Harris was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange.

“He had a CAT scan,” Karns said. “He’s alert. He’s fine. He’ll probably go home tomorrow.”

In another bout, super-flyweight Alejandro Montiel (34-3) of Los Mochis, Mexico scored an unimpressive and unpopular 10-round unanimous decision over Miguel Granados (17-6-1) of Mexico City.