Junior welterweight Hendri Cedeno of Reading, Pennsylvania, stopped Idalberto Umara of Miami in the sixth-round of their fight on Friday night’s card from Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. The bout was stopped before the seventh round, when Umara didn’t leave his corner.

Cedeno, 26, pressed forward to start the fight. The Cuban Umara moved often as the fight had a few feel-out rounds to begin with neither taking control. By the third, Cedeno, originally from the Dominican Republic, began to weaponize his pace, not allowing Umara to take breaks with his feet in the ring. Umara landed a right hand that rocked Cedeno as he landed cleanly, but Umara kept coming forward. Cedeno reclaimed the momentum in rounds four and five by pressing the action. 

Umara continued to counter strategically. With the fight in the balance, it appeared the fight would be won in the second half until Umara opted not leave his corner entering the seventh round.

Cedeno explained his game plan in the ring afterward. 

“The whole plan was just to keep the pressure on,” Cedeno said in the post-fight interview. “There was a strong round, round three, but once we got past that, we kept the pressure on, and this was the end result.”

Cedeno improves to 16-0 (12 KOs), while Umara is stopped for the first time in his career and falls to 13-4 (9 KOs).

Cuban heavyweight Lenier Pero won a 10-round unanimous decision over Detrailous Webster of Courtland, Mississippi. Scores were 96-92 on two cards and 98-90 on the third.

Webster buzzed Pero in the third round with a right hand. Pero, 32, began to pick up the pace, controlling the fight from that point after the lapse in focus. In round nine, Pero was deducted two points for low blows to Webster. Pero was warned in the previous round. 

Pero improves to 12-0 (8 KOs), while Webster, 36, falls to 9-5 (5 KOs).

In the opening bout of the broadcast, Armenian heavyweight Gurgen Hovhannisyan scored a fifth-round technical knockout over Dajuan Calloway. Hovhannisyan, 27, landed an overhand right while Calloway was in the corner, forcing him to take a knee. Referee Frank Gentile counted him out at 1:33.

Hovhannisyan improves to 8-0 (7 KOs), with Calloway seeing his four-fight win streak snapped as his record stands at 11-4 (9 KOs).