Boxing Challenge

If you thought last weeks Boxing Challenge was light, this weeks version is even lighter as we build for the next two weekends loaded versions.

The only fights this week are from ESPN/ Top Rank on their main network with one of them a world title fight as Emanuel Navarrete defends his WBO junior featherweight championship against undefeated Francisco DeVaca.
Navarrete won his title against and defended it for the first time against Issac Dogboe, looking very impressive in both victories, while DeVaca will be fighting in a twelve rounder for the first time,

The co-feature is a featherweight tussle with Jessie Magdaleno battling Rafael Rivera in a ten rounder.
Magdaleno, who lost the belt that Navarette currently holds to the aforementioned Dogboe, will be making his second foray into the 126-pound division against Rivera, who is 2-3 in his last five fights, but all against world-class competition in WBA champion Leo Santa Cruz, Joet Gonzalez, who will be facing Shakur Stevenson for the WBO title vacated by Oscar Valdez and former title challenger Joseph Diaz.

In the boxing challenge, I lead Ramon Malpica 203-176.

WBO Junior Featherweight Title 12 Rds
Emanuel Navarrete vs Francisco DeVaca
R.L: Navarrete Unanimous Decision
TRS: Navarrete KO 9

Featherweights. 10 Rds
Jessie Magdaleno vs Rafael Rivera
Both: Magdaleno Unanimous Decision