San Diego, California-Emanuel Navarrete (40-2-1, 32 KO) returned to the Arena of Pechang, he was dramatic and controversial. He fought with a veteran whose experience, durability and determination proved to be challenging. From the opening bell Charly Suarez (18-1, 10 KO) she jumped on Navarrete.
The round showed what the fight would be, the war forward and the return between two inexorable warriors. Navarrete began a sturdy, giving Suarez a bloody nose in the first round. His best rounds were early rounds, and then began to show signs of fatigue in the middle rounds. According to Suarez, he stated in Presser after the fight that he felt that Navarrete’s blows were becoming weaker as progressed.
Navarrete tried to make weight, requiring six attempts to reach the target weight 130. His weight problems seem to affect his conditioning. In the sixth round the fight changed, and Navarrete suffers a nasty cut on the left eye. The judge said that this is the title of the head, but the repetition of the released temperature shows the left blow thrown by Saarez, which lands, and then a tiny collision of heads occurs. The fight lasted until the eighth round, when at the beginning of the round the ring doctor stopped fighting due to cutting. After he was recognized as the title of the head, he came to the results cards for which the judges ruled in favor of Navarrete. Acquiring him a technical decision.
If the cut was a blow, the fight would end with a technical knockout victory. Making Suarez a fresh WBO Junior Lightweight champion. The California State Sports Commission is to review the incident. Carl Moretti published on X that after reviewing the replay, he deserves a rematch. Suarez has shown interest in ironing revenge. Navarrete, however, clearly did not express the desire. His difficulty in bringing weight can be the reason why he hesitates to give the final one, because he can potentially overcome the division.
In the current situation, in 7 rounds, Navarrete was able to land 32.5 percent of his blows. Suarez released, it landed 98 to 86 blows. If the match was not detained in the eighth round and continued, both warriors think they could win the match
distance. Suarez said he was simply warming up, while Navarrete felt Suarez had a lot of experience, but he could hurt him inside. Due to the controversial nature of how the match ended and because of how close it was, the rematch would seem inevitable. .
The question remains whether Navarrete is able to fight this weight again, or is it a featherlight jump?