LAS VEGAS — WBO winner Shakur Stevenson handed Oscar Valdez the to start with decline of his occupation Saturday night time in a junior light-weight championship bout.
What some imagined could be a combat of the calendar year applicant turned into a one particular-sided boxing clinic.
Stevenson (18-, 9 KOs) received by unanimous determination and took Valdez’s WBC belt with the victory.
Stevenson exhibited more quickly arms, beautiful footwork, and overall far better boxing techniques than Valdez. Stevenson outpunched his opponent 189-110 and landed 53% of his electric power punches.
Decide Tim Cheatham had the combat scored 117-110, whilst Dave Moretti and David Sutherland had it 118-109.
“This victory signifies anything,” mentioned Stevenson, who is seeking to gain every belt at 130 lbs and unify the division. “I told ya’ll what I was heading to do. I mentioned I’m gonna defeat Valdez, Canelo (Alvarez), and Eddy Reynoso, so that was my match program. Defeat the entire group and I really feel superior about it. Considerably respect to them, but that was my game approach.
“I should have to be a celebrity, so which is what I gotta do.”
Stevenson looked just about every bit a superstar when he took edge of Valdez’s huge gamble in the sixth round. Valdez misfired an overhand still left that remaining him in a vulnerable posture. Stevenson countered quickly by dropping Valdez with a brief still left shot to the temple and seized control of the bout.
Valdez (30-1) wasn’t the same just after that spherical, and seemingly shed the poise he started out with. Stevenson, conversely, was in manage the rest of the way, a lot to the dismay of the heavily pro-Valdez group inside of a jam-packed MGM Grand Yard with an announced gathering of 10,102.
“He has fantastic boxing expertise, he was just the better fighter this night,” Valdez mentioned. “He did what he experienced to do to earn the battle. He’s a good fighter. His velocity is there. Electric power is there. He was just the far better fighter tonight. In general, a fantastic fighter.”
When ringside reporter Bernardo Osuna questioned Stevenson what was next on his plate, he dropped to a single knee and proposed to his girlfriend, rapper Younger Lyric. She explained sure.
On the main undercard, Nico Ali Walsh (5-, 4 KOs), the grandson of Muhammad Ali, wanted only 2 minutes, 50 seconds to knock out Alejandro Ibarra (7-2) in what was intended to be a 4-spherical middleweight specific attraction.
U.S. Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn Davis (5-, 4 KOs) dictated the tempo in what went from an 8-spherical lightweight bout versus Esteban Sanchez (18-2), to a a single-sided boxing clinic. Immediately after a reasonably rudimentary three rounds, through which Sanchez landed his only considerable punch of the fight, Davis began a dominating assault in the fourth spherical.
Just after making the most of his most dominating spherical in the fifth, pummeling Sanchez into the ropes early in the spherical, and landing several crushing blows to close it, Davis, who landed 57% of his electricity punches, concluded factors in the sixth spherical when the bout was stopped at the 2:44 mark.
In other motion, Raymond Muratalla (14-, 12 KOs) knocked out Jeremy Hill at the 2:27 mark of the third round in their light-weight bout.
Eighteen-yr-old phenom Abdullah Mason enhanced to 2- (2 KOs) with a initial-round TKO of Luciano Ramon (1-3) 2:32 into the fight.
Junior light-weight contender Andres Cortes saved his mark unblemished, enhancing to 17- (10 KOs) with a sixth-spherical TKO of Alexis del Bosque (18-6-1).
And, U.S. Olympian Troy Isley (5-, 3 KOs) stopped Anthony Hannah (3-3) at the 2:32 mark of the 2nd spherical with a TKO.
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