In what ought to be a thrilling principal event on Showtime tonight, former world champions Brandon Figueroa (23-1-1, 18 KOs) and Mark Magsayo (24-1, 16 KOs) square off for the WBC interim featherweight title in a Premier Boxing Winner card at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. The action will be demonstrated dwell on Showtime, with the most important card beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT and the preliminary part at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Boxing 247 will give the results underneath.
In a genuine shocker, youthful unidentified Armando Resendiz (14-1, 10KO) stopped previous IBF/WBA junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd (24-3, 16KO) in the tenth round in their co-attribute bout.
The struggle was stopped at the beginning of round ten following the ringside medical doctor examined the 32-year-outdated Hurd’s bleeding lip and suggested that the combat be stopped. The time of the stoppage was at :05 of the tenth.
Starting up slowly and gradually like he often does, Hurd was outworked and crushed to the punch by the 24-calendar year-old Resendiz by means of the initial four rounds of the contest.
In the fifth, Hurd started to land big punches, but Resendiz took the pictures very well and continued to land steadily, not exhibiting indicators of permitting up.
Definitely, Resendiz’s trainer experienced put together an fantastic sport program of throwing a great deal of punches and operating Hurd, who has a popularity for donning down his opponents with unrelenting stress.
Hurd commenced to fade by the sixth spherical, as Resendiz was as well active for him to keep up, and he was commencing to get worn down.
Somewhat than attempting to match Resendiz’s substantial work amount, Hurd seemed to be focusing on stopping him, which wasn’t going to get the job done. Resendiz was much too amped up, and he would not be taken out by a big shot.
By the ninth round, Hurd seemed like an terrible sight, with his deal with terribly puffed up and blood coming out of his mouth in rivers.
Resendiz was teeing off on the hurt & exhausted Hurd in that round, hitting him at will, and it was apparent by the end of the spherical that the combat essential to be stopped before long.
At the beginning of the tenth, Hurd was examined by the ringside physician, and the combat was immediately halted due to the minimize lip.
It’s heading to be appealing to see if Hurd chooses to combat on immediately after this reduction or retire. He’s missing his final two fights and 3 out of his prior four in opposition to fighters that are not world champions.
In an outstanding general performance, 19-12 months-previous middleweight prospect Elijah Garcia (14-, 12 KOs) scored a magnificent fourth round knockout more than the sport but limited Amilcar Vidal (16-1, 12 KOs) from Uruguay.
Garcia wore down and dropped Vidal in the fourth round. The struggle was then halted shortly after by referee Jack Reiss at 2:17 of the spherical.
Junior middleweight Terrell Gausha (23-3-1, 12 KOs) place in a attractive overall performance, knocking out Brandyn Lynch (12-2-1, 9 KOs) in the ninth spherical in their 10 spherical scheduled particular element attraction.
Coming off a 1-yr layoff and a reduction to Tim Tszyu, Gausha dropped Lynch with a beautifully timed counter ideal hand in the ninth round.
Lynch was completely out of it following he got back to his toes. Gausha then dropped him two more instances right before referee Jerry Cantu halted the contest.
You can argue that the struggle ought to have been halted immediately after the very first knockdown, as Lynch was fully defenseless and using substantial photographs from Gausha.
During the battle, Gausha was jabbing and countering Lynch and getting benefit of his deficiency of skills. Lynch had come on a minimal bit in the seventh and eighth rounds, landing great appropriate hands through the guard of Gausha.
Lynch and his coach probable assumed that Gausha experienced exhausted enough for them to struggle far more aggressively, and that was of course a slip-up he even now had a lot of combat left in the ninth, as we noticed with him catching him with a really hard proper hand to rating the initial of 3 knockdowns.
Gausha experienced lost his former battle in a narrow 12 round unanimous selection to Tim Tszyu in March 2022. He dropped Tszyu in the to start with spherical and outboxed him as a result of substantially of the struggle, but Tszyu came on solid in the championship rounds to get the conclusion.
It was a near more than enough struggle that you could argue that a rematch would have been fitting, but you can’t blame Tszyu for going on since he’ll get a huge payday if he can obstacle undisputed junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo this calendar year.
Middleweight Daniel Blancas (5-, 3 KOs) put on a physique punching clinic, operating around an overmatched Kynndale Prather (3-16, 1 KOs) in dropping him 2 times en route to a lightning fast first round knockout.
The lanky Blancas trapped the 31-year-aged Prather in the corner and then allow loose with a flurry of entire body pictures that finished with a left that set him down. Referee Jack Reiss then halted the bout after Prather failed to get back again up. The time of the stoppage was 1:53 of the to start with.
Undefeated junior middleweight Travon Marshall (8-, 7 KOs) blasted out Justin DeLoach (19-6, 10 KOs) in the 3rd spherical.
The 22-year-aged Marshall had his way in the very first two rounds, hitting the overmatched DeLoach with enormous shots and not getting significantly back in return.
In the third, Marshall flattened DeLoach. The referee then halted the bout. The time of the stoppage was at 2:07.
Light welterweight journeyman Samuel Teah (19-4-1, 8 KOs) defeated southpaw Enriko Gogokhia (13-1-2, 8 KOs), winning a eight spherical unanimous final decision. Teah, 35, knocked Gogokhia down in spherical 1 with a sweeping correct hand to the head.
The scores were being 78-73, 78-73, and 79-72. Gogokhia lacked the electric power to be concerned Teah, and he was ingesting a great deal of counters the complete struggle. In the sixth, Teah started slowing down, being much more stationary and receiving strike, but he was capable to outwork Gogokhia in the championship rounds to protect his earn.
In the chief aid bout, previous junior middleweight winner Jarrett Hurd (24-2, 1 emerges new from a two-yr layoff to struggle the upset-minded Armando Resendiz (13-1, 9 KOs) in a 10 spherical bout at middleweight.
The combat really should indicate no matter whether the 32-yr-old Hurd can change his profession all over because he’s been heading downhill given that 2019, and some followers truly feel he’s a shot fighter.
If Hurd loses or seems undesirable profitable from Resendiz, he can overlook about successful a environment title at middleweight except if Gennadiy Golovkin retires and Jermall Charlo moves up to 168.
Showtime major card at 9:00 p.m. ET
Brandon Figueroa vs. Mark Magsayo
Jarrett Hurd vs. Armando Resendiz
Amilcar Vidal vs. Elijah Garcia
Also, in the principal part of tonight’s Showtime card, middleweight potential customers Amilcar Vidal and Elijah García will fight a 10 round affair in the to start with bout of the televised part of the party.
Preliminary card – at 6:30 p.m. ET
Terrell Gausha vs. Brandyn Lynch
Travon Marshall vs. Justin DeLoach
Enriko Gogokhia vs. Samuel Teah
Presented the 26-year-aged Figueora tends to make it via the very first 6 rounds, he’s got an excellent chance of winning tonight because Magsayo is rather a lot a 6-round fighter who gasses in the next fifty percent of his fights.
You can argue that if Gary Russell Jr hadn’t been combating with an hurt arm and working with inactivity and age, he would have simply crushed Magsayo in their battle in January 2022, as even with one arm, he was schooling the Filipino.
It was uncomfortable at periods of how significantly superior Russell appeared combating with just just one arm. Nonetheless, the judges gave it to Magsayo by a 12 spherical bulk final decision, but it was not an extraordinary efficiency by him.
Not surprisingly, Magsayo’s temporary reign as the WBC 126-lb winner came to a stretching halt in his first protection from Rey Vargas, who outboxed him, profitable a 12 spherical break up final decision very last July.
Figueroa possesses comparable boxing competencies as Vargas, so he’s likely to be searching to box Magsayo in the early rounds and then punish him in the afterwards part of the battle to consider and score a knockout. Magsayo has an outstanding chin, so he’ll possible make it to 12th round to drop a quite large determination.
