Cintron wins but suffers injury to hand

Kermit Cintron entered Friday night’s fight against Jesse Feliciano with a big payday ahead -- a bout next year against Paul “The Punisher” Williams.

All he needed to do was dispose of Feliciano and not get hurt. He did one of the two, though just barely.

Cintron (29-1, 27 knockouts) successfully defended his International Boxing Federation welterweight championship with an 11th-round technical knockout of Feliciano in the undercard of the Fernando Vargas-Ricardo Mayorga fight at Staples Center.

But after the fight, it was Cintron who was on the canvas doubled over in pain.

Cintron hurt his right hand in the first round of the fight, saying afterward he felt a “crack” when it happened, and his bout against Williams is in doubt.

“I tried to use [the right hand] through the fight. I had a lot of pain, but I worked through it,” he said. “Feliciano is a tough kid. Now, I just have to go back to the drawing board.”

Feliciano (15-6-3) was disappointed with the result but was feeling good about his performance.

“I think the fans now know that I can give 110%. I’m another Rocky,” said Feliciano, who’s from Los Angeles. “I took a lot of punches, but I never hit the ground. He was the one on the ground at the end of the fight.”

Shane Mosley, who recently lost a 12-round unanimous decision to Miguel Cotto, said he is done fighting.

After the fight, as he was exiting ringside, he was asked if he still had one more fight in him. Mosley shook his head, waved his right hand across his chest and then walked away.

Roman Karmazin (36-2-1, 23) knocked out Alejandro “Terra” Garcia (25-3, 23) in the third round with a left hook to the body and then a right to his head to win the vacant World Boxing Assn. intercontinental super-welterweight belt.

Angulo (20-4) of Venezuela unanimously won his lightweight fight with Damian Fuller (34-5-1) of Detroit.

Jason Litzau of Minnesota walked away with a controversial unanimous decision against Edel Ruiz of Mexico.

Ruiz (28-18-5) rocked Litzau (23-1) a couple of times and appeared to have controlled the fight, but the judges saw it differently -- 98-92, 97-93, 98-92.

L.A. native Jorge Padilla (7-5-3) lost a unanimous eight-round decision in his super-welterweight fight against Nelson Linares (15-0-1) of Venezuela. Heavyweight Victor Barragan of Oxnard was knocked out by Evans Quinn of Nicaragua.

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