There are fights in which a boxer is so game, so determined to keep fighting no matter what, that one watches almost in awe. I felt that way about Rodrigo Guerrero, the young and little-known Mexican challenger who valiantly went the full 12 rounds with Vic Darchinyan in Saturday’s junior bantam title fight on Showtime.

It was man versus boy, a mismatch, as Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. blew through Marvin Sonsona in four rounds to capture the vacant WBO junior featherweight title on Saturday in Puerto Rico. Now we know that Sonsona is not and never will be the new Manny Pacquiao. The 19-year-old southpaw from Pacquiao’s hometown of General Santos City in the Philippines looked, I have to say, like a scared kid as Vazquez marched confidently towards him.

The matches have generally been pleasing in the Top Rank Live! series on Fox Sports Espanol, and the junior middleweight 10-rounder between Gabriel Rosado and Saul Roman on Saturday’s show was highly entertaining — far more so than the somewhat tepid Mike Jones showcase in the main event. Rosado, the locally based fighter from Philadelphia, survived late-rounds pressure to win a split decision in a fight that could have gone either way. I saw it as a draw, 95-95, judge Pierre Benoist had Roman winning widely, 97-93, while judges Debra Barnes and Ed Gabler (a new name to me) each had Rosado ahead 96-94. When there was an extremely long wait before the decision was announced I had a feeling that Roman was not going to go home to Mexico with the W.

A win is a win, I suppose, but I expected more from Mike Jones against Henry Bruseles in Saturday night’s main event on Fox Sports Espanol. The unbeaten Philadelphia welterweight showed some nice moves and quick hands in taking the unanimous 10-round decision but we now know that he isn’t the big hitter he has seemed to be.

When fights are incredibly exciting they make you realise why you became addicted to boxing in the first place. Antonio Escalante against Miguel Roman on Friday Night Fights was one such bout. This featherweight 10-rounder was one of the most amazing fights I have seen in a long time for its intensity, commitment, courage and ferocity.

Big hitting was provided by Giovanni Segura and Leva Kirakosyan, but the most skilful performance of the weekend came from Elio Rojas as he outboxed and outclassed Guty Espadas on Saturday night, with live internet coverage made available by the WBC.

Eric Morel got the decision, but Gerry Penalosa won the hearts of the fans in their bantamweight 12-rounder on Top Rank’s Latin Fury 13; Pinoy Power 3 PPV show in Las Vegas. Penalosa fought valiantly and well in a remarkable performance for a veteran who will turn 38 in six months. The fearless Filipino was chasing Morel around the ring at times in the later rounds and he came very close to winning. Many rounds were closely contested and in the end the fight was one round on one card from being a draw, with scores of 115-113 for each fighter and a rather wide 116-112 in Morel’s favour.

You know those boxing skills that Edwin Valero wasn’t supposed to have? Well, he showed them on Saturday night as he outboxed, outfought and finally overpowered a game and durable Antonio DeMarco in their lightweight title bout in Mexico.

I’m not one to bash judges. I thought Juan Diaz beat Paulie Malignaggi in Houston. I had Nikolai Valuev eking out the win over Evander Holyfield. I made Ali Funeka beat Joan Guzman by only 115-113 — not the landslide that most saw. I didn’t think Felix Sturm was robbed against Oscar De La Hoya.