Sunday, August 18, 2019

Boxing Challenge: Navarette cruises by DeVaca

The boxing challenge was all Top Rank with two fights on their flagship ESPN network.

The main event was uncompetitive as Emanuel Navarrete dominated Francisco De Vaca and ended their WBO junior featherweight title in three rounds from Los Angeles.

Navarrete dominated the fight in scoring a third-round knockdown, was barely threatened by return fire and took such little punishment in the victory that he'll be returning in a month on the Tyson Fury-Otto Wallin card against an unnamed opponent.
Navarrete will be a tough out for anyone in the 122-pound division with his size and range and could be in the 126-pound division as well.

In the co-feature, Jessie Magdaleno won a unanimous decision after nine rounds over Rafael Rivera when the fight was stopped in the ninth for cuts suffered by Magdaleno from an elbow thrown by Rivera.
Magdaleno knocked Rivera down earlier in the round and seemed to be on this way to possibly stopping Rivera before the elbow that seemed to be thrown in desperation.
I had Magdaleno winning 88-82 in the nine rounds that were scored.

I earned four points to Ramon Malpica's three on the evening, moving my lead to 207-179.

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