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Former two-time world light flyweight (108 pounds) champion Brian Viloria of Hawaii earned a 12-round, split-decision over Omar Soto of Mexico City at Yñares Sports Arena, Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines that helped him to bounce back from a loss in January — the worst of his career.

In victory, the 29-year-old Viloria rose to 27-3, with 15 knockouts, dropping the 30-year-old Soto to 19-7-2, with 13 knockouts. Soto lost for the third time in his past six bouts.

Viloria rebounded from being dethroned as IBF king by Colombian-born Carlos Tamara of North Bergen, N.J., who stopped Viloria at one minute, 45 seconds of the 12th round at Cuneta Astrodome, in Pasay City, Manila, Philippines.

Viloria was also once the WBC champion.

The 27-year-old Tamara (21-5) scored his 15th knockout against Viloria, as well as his fourth straight win since losing his WBO crown by unanimous decision to Omar Andres Narvaez in January 2008.

Tamara was subsequently dethroned in May by Argentina’s Luis Alberto Lazarte (47-9-1, 18 KOs), who defeated him by a split- decision.

The loss to Tamara ended a seven-bout winning streak that included three knockouts for Viloria, who led early on in the fight, but as cornered and badly-tiring in the final round when Tamara nailed him repeatedly before referee Bruce McTavish stepped in to protect him from further harm.

Viloria collapsed in his changing room minutes after the bout and was rushed to a hospital in an ambulance, later discovered to have suffered from dehydration and exhaustion.

Challenger John Molina, Jr. (pictured at right) needed a knockout to win and he got just that, stopping defending champion and previously unbeaten “Hammerin” Hank Lundy in the 11th round for the NABO lightweight (135 pounds) title on ESPN Friday Night Fights from Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, RI.

After being out-boxed for seven rounds, Molina dropped Lundy with a counter right-hook in the eighth round, and, three rounds later, caused referee, Ricky Gonzalez, to wave an end to the bout in a disputed stoppage with Lundy on the ropes.

“The stoppage was premature,” said Lundy, who slipped to 18-1-1, with 10 KOs, even as he led by scores of 98-91 on two judges’ cards, and, 97-92, on the third. “I had the fight. It is what it is, but I wasn’t hurt.”

Molina rose to 21-1 with his 17th knockout.

“My trainer, Joe Goossen, told me to going out for the 11th round and that I needed a knockout and not to wait for the 12th. [Lundy] is kind of quirky. He didn’t have any power. No disrespect, but he didn’t want to fight. The only time he wobbled me was with a punch to the top of my forehead,” said Molina.

“[Lundy] was swaying back and forth. He was a good actor, too. I know I had him hurt, and it was a good stoppage,” said Molina. “He’s a very good, technically sound fighter. This was the hardest fight of my career. I have dynamite in both hands. I thought the count was a little long in the eighth. But hey, I’m a fighter who’ll go out on his shield, and I think I proved that tonight.”

Rising Philadelphia welterweight (147 pounds) Mike Jones scored his 22nd straight win without a loss and his 18th knockout at 1 minute, 22 seconds of the fifth round in Friday night’s Showtime-televised victory over 31-year-old Irving Garcia at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.

The 27-year-old, nearly 6-foot-1 Jones used a powerful left hook to drive Garcia into the ropes, where the younger man fired perhaps more than 10 unanswered punches — the last being a left hook to the crotch that dropped his adversary to his knees.

Without benefit of the instant replay, referee Randy Neumann began his 10-count, with Garcia failing to rise. With that, Neumann simply waved an end to the contest.

“The beginning of the fight, I started out kind of slow. You know, he’s a good counter-puncher, so I had to get the timing down right, even with him trying to counter me with his right hand. So I was looking out for that. So I was beginning to start picking it up with my jab as the rounds went on. In the second and third round, you could see me start to double and triple up on the jab,” said Jones.

“Once that started to get in there, I started touching him to the body. The body attack started slowing him up. Then I started throwing the jab more and following that up with the right hand, throwing the right hand behind the jab as the rounds went on,” said Jones. “In the last few rounds, he became more available for a good uppercut. He kept dipping his head down a lot. In fact, he head-butted me a few times. But it was the right uppercut and the left uppercut and softening him up to the body.”

In victory, Jones continued his role as perhaps the leader of the next generation of welterweights, joining 26-year-old WBC king, Andre Berto (26-0, 20 KOs), and following those such as 31-year-old WBO titlist Manny Pacquaio (51-3-2, 38 knockouts) and 33-year-old Floyd Mayweather

Mayweahter (41-0, 25 KOs).

“This was a pretty good performance as far as my stepping up to the next level,” said Jones, who overcame swelling beneath his right eye. “Of course, I want to be perfect. But I’ll take it.”

Friday night was Jones’ fifth appearance in Atlantic City, and his first as the main event at Boardwalk Hall. Jones stopped his sixth opponent in his past eight fights with his WBO-NABO and NABA titles on the line.

“Irving Garcia is a durable veteran. He had a good jab. His jab was better than I thought that it would be. Even though Mike is long and lanky, Irving Garcia had some long arms. I just told Mike to stay behind his jab and to stay on his body. The plan was to just pick it up as the rounds went on, and to stay on his body, and it worked out,” said Jones’ trainer, Vaughan Jackson.

“The left hook was a big part of it. We wanted him to stay behind his jab and to go to that side. We wanted him to gradually double and triple on the left hook. To stay on that side and to keep working that body. We didn’t think that the last shot was a low blow. It was just a matter of time,” said Jackson. “But even though Mike might have hit him with a low blow by accident, and if they would have called it, if Garcia had gotten back up, he would have still gotten knocked out. I mean, he was slowing down. Mike is dangerous when his opponents slow down.”

A bout against Berto has been proposed for the fall, but there are others on Jones’ radar, including Slovenian IBF king Jan Zaveck (29-1, 17 KOs), Ukrainian WBA champ Vyacheslav Senchenko (30-0, 20 KOs), or contenders such as Hamburg’s Selcuk Aydin (20-0, 15 KOs) or Poland’s Rafal Jackiewicz (36-8-1, 18 KOs).

“We’re learning every time out. I wish that Mike could have stopped him a little earlier, but this is boxing, and Garcia was a durable guy who has put a lot of guys on the canvas,” said Jackson. “So Mike showed that he could overcome adversity because he got head-butted and that caused the cut and the swelling under his right eye. But I can’t take anything away from Irving Garcia. Mike just showed a lot of determination in there tonight.”

Jones was coming off of last month’s fifth-round knockout of 31-year-old Hector Munoz (18-3-1, 11 KOs), which was also fought at Boardwalk Hall on the undercard of an HBO-televised main event that featured Sergio Martinez dethroning WBC and WBO middleweight (160 pounds) champion Kelly Pavlik.

Highly-touted 23-year-old Miami welterweight (147 pounds) prospect, Antwone “The Truth” Smith, was generally outworked by his 34-year-old counterpart, Lanardo Tyner, of Houston, Tex., before falling victim to a vicious body shot and failing to beat the count on the way to being stopped in the ninth round of their Showtime-televised bout from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.

In victory, Tyner improved to 24-3, and with his 15th knockout, earned his third consecutive win in the process.

His right eye badly swollen from the punishment he received, Smith rode a 13-0-1 unbeaten streak into the bout, which had included seven knockouts.

But the younger fighter slipped to 18-2-1, with 10 knockouts, suffering his first loss since July 2007, when he was decisioned over six rounds by Ed Paredes. Smith was coming off of his second straight knockout: April’s third-round stoppage of Franklin Gonzalez.

Smith rose to his feet at the count of eight, but referee Earl Morton waved an end to the fight at the 1 minute, 15-second mark of the round.

Tyner-Smith took place on the undercard of a main event featuring rising Philadelphia welterweight Mike Jones, who scored his 22nd straight win without a loss and his 18th knockout at 1 minute, 22 seconds of the fifth round against 31-year-old Irving Garcia.

The 27-year-old, nearly 6-foot-1 Jones used a powerful left hook to drive Garcia into the ropes, where the younger man fired perhaps more than 10 unanswered punches — the last being a left hook to the crotch that dropped his adversary to his knees.