Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrate (40-2-1, 32 KOS) WBO WBO WBO WBO Junior Champion won on Saturday evening at the Pechang Arena in San Diego, California. The ring doctor stopped the fight one second in the eighth round because of the cut, which Navarrete suffered to the left eye from the head in the sixth round. The stop time was 00: 1 from the eighth round.
In the first round of Navarrate, who took weight six times, Outlanded Suarez, which ended the round with bloody lips. Navarrate had Suarez in trouble with lots of blows in the last minute of the fourth round.
In the fifth round, Navarrate landed on the chin of Suarez. In the sixth round, Navarrate received a nasty cut on his left eyebrow due to a random head clash, causing blood to cover his face throughout the round. Navarrate was still cutting the cut of the whole round. At the end of the round he had Suarez.
In the seventh round, Suarez went to Navarrate with mainly cutting strokes. Judge Edward Collants called the Ring doctor to check the cut after the round, informing the judge to call. Twice they went to the 78-75, 77-76 results cards in favor of Navarrate, adjudicating in the degree of detention 00: 1 eighth round of the technical decision.
In the co-main, NABF and WBO party, Lightweight Champion Reay “Danger” Muratalla, 23-0 (17) defeated WBO player No. 2 Zaur Abdullaev, 20-2 (12), 12-round unanimous decision to win the momentary delicate title IBF.
In the second round Muratalla landed right on the chin Abdullaeva stunning him in the first minute. In the third round, Abdullaev spoke Muratalla, although little blows landed through both boxers.
From seven to the ninth round, Muratalla developed Abdullaeva. Muratalla stuck the way to win in both the tenth and eleventh round. In the twelfth and final round of Muratalla turned into Southpaw and twisted Abdullaeva. Abdullaev’s face looked like he had entered the fan at the end.
Results 118-110, 119-109 and 119-109. The judge was Thomas Taylor.
Super Featheweight Andres Cortes, 23-0 (12), easily defeated Salvadore “Salvi” Jimenez, 14-2-1 (6), uninteresting 10-round unanimous decision.
In the first four rounds, everything was Cortes with a petite picture of Jimenez, who fought the shell, allowing Cortes to go to the body with left hooks.
In the sixth round, Jimenez finally began to throw blows, although not enough to win his first round. In the ninth round, Cortés won the next round. In the tenth and final round it was all Cortes, while Jimenez landed with his last blow and began to celebrate, as if he won the fight, not to mention the round.
The results were 99-91 and 100-90, 100-90. Ray Corona was a judge.
The semi-average Southpaw “Gallo de Oro” in Giovani Santillan, 34-1 (18), was defeated by Angel Beltran, 18-3 (11), raging a 10-round unanimous decision.
In the first 4 rounds, all Beltran had Santillan’s nose bleeding from the third round. In the fifth round Santillan finally did enough for Outland Beltran.
In the last minute of the sixth round Santillan landed half a dozen left to Brody Beltran. In the seventh and eighth round Beltran mostly had Santillan’s support.
In the ninth round Beltran took the next round again at the speed of his hand. In the tenth and final round, below a minute, Santillan’s low blow dropped Beltran. It was close in a close fight. The results are 97-93, 97-93 and 97-93. The judge was Thomas Taylor.
Super Bantamweight Sebastian “Logan” Hernandez, 20-0 (18), defeated Azat “Crazy A” Hovhannisyan, 21-6 (17), a 10-round unanimous decision.
In the first three rounds Hernandez had an advantage for two rounds, and then Hovhannisan took third place, turning Southpaw. In the fourth round Hovhannisyan counted his body attack when he squeezed Hernandez.
In the fifth and sixth round, Hernandez used a cruel body attack to hurt and undo Hovhannisan. In the seventh round Hernandez had Hovhannisyna against the lines, wanting to end the fight when Hovhannisyan returned in the last seconds with a wave of blows.
In the eighth round, Hernandez once again had Hovhannisyana against lines for no reasons. Hovhannisan did enough to go through the round. In the ninth round Hernandez had his way mainly when judge David Solivan decided Hovhannisyan for holding.
In the tenth and final round Hernandez won, going to the body when Hovhannisyan returned and did enough to take a round. The judge’s results were 98-91, 98-91 and 98-91.
The delicate Alan “Kid Kansas” Garcia, 16-1 (11), defeated Cristian “Vikingo” Medina, 8-3-1 (5), according to the eight of a unanimous decision.
In the second round in the right mountains from Medina in the last minute Garcia stayed when Medina knocked him on canvas. In the third round of Garcia left Southpaw, then turned to the Orthodox and put an attack on the medina, having a good round.
In the fifth round of Garcia he had the way to the last half minute, when Medina landed on the upper part, which hurt Garcia at the bell.
In the seventh round the medina landed the upper right, opening the blood flood from Garcia’s nose in the middle of the round. In the eighth and final round, all Garcia is, in the last seconds, the left eyebrows of the medina with blood flowing down his face.
The results were 79–73, 79-73 and 79-73. The judge was Edward Collantes.
In the first round, Basaldua had her way with Ward, dropping her head in the last seconds, forcing Basaldua to the canvas. In the second and third rounds it was all basalda. In the fourth and final round of Basalda ended the next round. The results of the judges were 40-36, 40-36 and 40-36. Chris Leben was a judge.
Top trainer and former world champion Robert Garcia has considered the outcome of a fantasy showdown between Terence Crawford and Manny Pacquiao.
The two generational greats reportedly came close to squaring off in 2021, back when Crawford was the WBO welterweight champion and ‘Pac Man’ held the WBA title.
Their unification match never materialised, though, as Pacquiao was scheduled to face Errol Spence Jr before ‘The Truth’ pulled out with a torn retina.
Instead, the Filipino legend ended up losing his WBA title to Yordenis Ugas at a stage when, while still serviceable, he was quite clearly past his best.
Crawford, meanwhile, was hitting top form around this time, just a few fights away from producing arguably a career-best performance against Spence.
He did, of course, manage to stop his welterweight rival in nine rounds, before moving up to 168lbs and becoming a three-division undisputed champion by dethroning Canelo Alvarez last September.
Based on those two performances, coach Garcia has told ESNEWS that he would favour ‘Bud’ to defeat even a prime version of Pacquiao.
“The Crawford that beat Spence – and the Crawford that beat Canelo – would probably beat Manny.”
While Crawford’s prime almost certainly came during his run of eight stoppages at welterweight, it is harder to pinpoint when Pacquiao ultimately reached his peak.
In terms of his most destructive performance at world level, however, many will point towards his second-round finish over Ricky Hatton in 2009.
While facing the ‘Hitman’ at 140lbs, Pacquiao would cement himself as a formidable welterweight champion soon after, dethroning Miguel Cotto with a 12th-round stoppage for the WBO title.
Former world champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk has been left between a rock and a hard place afterhis promotional contract with Zuffa Boxing has been terminated.
The Ukrainian dethroned long-reigning light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson in 2018, scoring an 11th-round stoppage that left his opponent with a brain injury.
Gvozdyk then made a WBC title defence before losing to Artur Beterbievwho extended his ruthless surge with a 10th-round finish in their 2019 encounter.
Since that defeat, ‘The Nail’ suffered a unanimous decision loss to David Benavidez in 2024, before entering a perceived 50/50 contest against Radivoje ‘Hot Rod’ Kalajdzic in February.
With both making their Zuffa debut, the two veterans delivered a thrilling battle in which Gvozdyk scored two knockdowns and had built a sizable lead.
In round seven, though, the 39-year-old found himself on the canvas and was ultimately stopped on his feet after getting dropped a second time.
Given his overall performance, one would suspect he had done enough to justify another meaningful opportunity, yet Gvozdyk has since told vRINGe that he will no longer be fighting under the Zuffa banner.
“They terminated the contract in February after a loss. That is, every promoter has the option that if a boxer loses, they have the right to terminate the contract. That’s exactly what they did. After the fight, everyone was saying how great it was. That everything was great. I rested. I started preparing as planned – somewhere around May. And then, around April, they told me I’d received an email terminating the contract.”
This is because his contract has been terminated, while Kalajdzic’s next outing with Dana White’s promotional outfit is confirmed for September 26 against Craig Richards.
As for Gvozdyk, it is difficult to predict what will come next but, at the age of 39, one would suspect that he is close to hanging up the gloves.
Still, he could hardly have been happy to part ways with Zuffa, which also terminated its contract with Robert Meriwether following his defeat to Tony Hirsch Jr in April.
Former British champion and Olympic bronze medallist David Price has assessed whether his countryman, Conor Bennpossesses the necessary hand speed to defeat Ryan Garcia.
The two welterweights will square off at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena on September 12, with Garcia making a first defence of his WBC world title.
It was arguably a career-best performance that saw him dethrone Mario Barrios in February, scoring a first-round knockdown before winning a wide unanimous decision.
But despite coming off this dominant display, Garcia was far less impressive when he returned from a year-long doping ban and lost on points to Rolando Romero in May 2025.
Still, many would argue that the 28-year-old has shown signs of world-class quality, while Benn remains glaringly unproven at the top level.
The 29-year-old has also not fought at 147lbs since 2022, with his last two outings resulting in unanimous decision victories over faded versions of Chris Eubank Jr and Regis Prograis.
Against Eubank, in particular, Benn’s speed seemed a key factor in their two middleweight encounters last year, despite him suffering a points defeat the first time around.
As he approaches this welterweight contest against Garcia, though, former heavyweight contender Price has told The Smith Brothers that he sees Benn contending with an unfamiliar disadvantage.
“I think I [favour Garcia]. Conor Benn’s got great hand speed, but I think [Garcia’s] hand speed could make the difference in the fight.”
Like Garcia, Benn tested positive for a banned substance – clomifene – and was eventually removed from his cancelled 2022 encounter with Eubank.
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