Like This: Three Prospects On ShoBox Tested Hard In High-Contact Victories

We got a little apocalyptic about the state of ShoBox last weekend, but this weekend's outing was a return to form -- just about everything you could want from Showtime's program for putting prospects into the toughest fights of their careers. Thomas Oosthuizen, Luis Del Valle and Jose Pedraza all had to work hard to pass those tests, and all will probably be better off for it in the long run. Oh, and all three fights were action-packed.Existential crises thrown to the backburner for the night, we can resume the usual response to a ShoBox card: What did we learn about the prospects Friday? I'm not sure we learned terribly much about Pedraza, or at least I didn't. I was least familiar with the lightweight's ouevre coming in, and Showtime's Steve Farhood assured us that he really was tagging Gil Garcia superhard, so Pedraza's rep as a puncher wasn't affected and the chin of Garcia got its own reputation, and a good one. Intitially, I couldn't be...