Brandon Figueroa halted Jessie Magdaleno in nine rounds in Las Vegas to stay on track to challenge Rey Vargas for the WBC featherweight title.
At the T-Portable Field, on the undercard of the undisputed super middleweight title battle between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Jaime Munguia, Figueroa was progressively prevailing with the strain he was applying to Magdaleno when he dropped him with a strong passed close by to the body.
The stoppage that accompanied a second in the round excess promptly appeared to be unavoidable given both how vigorously Magdaleno went down and his powerlessness to muster the gumption to answer.
Magdaleno, 32, having tipped the scales at 128.6 pounds – 2.6 over as far as possible – had made himself ineligible to win Figueroa’s daintily respected WBC interval title, yet his size advantage had up to that point made him challenging to separate.
In the third, he swung and missed the mark with a wild right hand that caught the desire he showed all through the initial rounds – to tie up the forceful Figueroa, to retain his strain and possibly to answer ultimately.
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At the point when Magdaleno handled a left uppercut in the fourth, he gave a sign of the warrior he had frequently been until getting come by Isaac Dogboe in 2018. Be that as it may, towards the round’s decision, he was put down, and remained down for quite a while, following a shameful move.
If the 27-year-old Figueroa – who weighed 125.4 pounds – is regularly adequately liquid on his feet to really shut down the ring, Magdaleno was demonstrating similarly great on his to, in mix with tying Figueroa up, generally stay out of danger.
A time of strain by the ropes in the 6th exhibited that Figueroa’s methodology was beginning to succeed, however in the eighth he was rebuffed for his hostility through a right to his body and afterward a solid left hand.
Again Magdaleno, who recorded his second progressive loss, battled against Figueroa’s strain toward the beginning of the 10th. By its determination, when Figueroa followed a right to the head with a left to the body, that tension had at last told.
Mexico’s Mario Barrios then, at that point, held his WBC break welterweight title, through consistent choice, over Fabian Andres Maidana.
Barrios opposed critical expanding under his right eye to procure three merited scores of 116-111 at the finish of 12 to a great extent uneven rounds, having dropped Maidana – the Argentinian, 31, is the more youthful sibling of Marcos – in the third with a perfect right hand.
The assumption that Terence Crawford, the WBC, WBA and WBO champion who is battling WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov on Aug. 3, will abandon his welterweight titles implies that Barrios, 28, is supposed to be raised to the situation with champion.
