Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez is still the champion…

The 33-year-old Nicaraguan professional boxer retained his WBA junior bantamweight world title by wearing down Israel Gonzalez in 12 fast-paced rounds full of action on Friday night on DAZN at the TV Azteca Studios in Mexico City.

At the end of the fight, all three judges scored the fight for Chocolatito: 118-110, 116-112 and 117-111.

It was a remarkable pace set forth by Chocolatito, against an opponent nine years his junior.

Chocolatito was able to figure out the upper body movement of Gonzalez (25-4, 11 KOs) in the early rounds by landing right hands to the body, and then combining his attack with an array of left hooks, uppercuts from both sides and right hands over the top.

While Israel was the taller fighter, Roman (50-2, 41 KOs) was able to close the gap and send his opponent to the ropes, where Roman would landed effective combinations to the body and head.

Israel had some spurts of effectiveness, as he had the faster hands, but for the most part, he was on the receiving end of an unrelenting offensive attack that he simply couldn’t fend off.

With the victory, Chocolatito moved one step closer to an expected rematch with Estrada, whom he defeated in 2012 in a memorable battle.