WBA featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18 KOs) stopped former IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (35-7, 26 KOs) in the fifth round on Saturday night at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.
Mexican-born Santa Cruz dropped Martinez twice in first round, each time from right hands, but the Spaniard survived and came back with some punches of his own.
The two traded hard shots at close range throughout until the end came in the fifth when Santa Cruz backed Martinez to…