On Friday, September 20, Jaime Munguía (44-1, 35 KOs) returned to profitable methods with a formidable stoppage victory in opposition to the beforehand undefeated Armenian-born fighter Erik Bazinyan (32-1-1, 23 KOs) in the primary occasion of a Top Rank Promotions card on the Desert Diamond Area in Glendale. Fights followers in america might catch the motion on ESPN+ whereas these in the UK might watch on Sky Sports activities.
Jaime Munguía Defeats Erik Bazinyan on Prime Rank Boxing Card
Jaime Munguía vs. Erik Bazinyan Recap
The opening spherical began slowly, with each trying to set up their jab earlier than Bazinyan landed an eye catching proper hand whereas Munguía landed a nice-looking counter left hand. Over the subsequent two rounds, each fighters have been sharp with their punches – with Bazinyan touchdown a pleasant counter left within the second whereas the Mexican fighter utilized good stress in spherical three, selecting his punches impressively.
Rounds 4 and 5 noticed Munguía proceed to use stress and have small pockets of success, however the jab of Bazinyan was eye-catching and efficient. The Armenian-born fighter was impressing with the accuracy of his work, which was edging many of the rounds in his favour. Spherical six was a significantly better spherical for the Tijuana native – as he pressured his opponent successfully, touchdown some eye-catching combos which damage Bazinyan, particularly the work to the physique.
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The seventh was one other sturdy spherical for the Mexican as he surprised Bazinyan with a flurry of punches, together with some eye-catching proper palms. The Canadian resident recovered properly and landed some good counters in direction of the tip of the spherical. Spherical 10 noticed the Mexican come out extra aggressively earlier than Bazinyan answered with a great mixture. A heavy left hook to the liver damage the Armenian-born fighter earlier than Munguía confirmed poise and picked his punches properly, forcing his opponent right down to the canvas and unable to beat the depend. It was a troublesome night time for the Mexican, however he confirmed his coronary heart and braveness to beat troublesome moments and win by tenth round KO.
Submit Combat Quotes
Within the post-fight interview by an interpreter, Munguía mentioned: “It was a combat I needed to do intelligently. He’s sturdy. He hits laborious. So, we needed to break him down and watch out with pictures to the physique. And within the 10th spherical, that’s once I determined to come back out with all the things. And that’s how we received the knockout.”
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He continued: “There are nice issues to come back, nice fights at 168 kilos. There’s Caleb Plant, {Edgar} Berlanga, Christian Mbilli. There are nice fights, and we are going to give nice wars as properly.”
Bazinyan additionally spoke after the combat and mentioned: “I felt like I used to be profitable. I felt he was very annoyed with my jab, proper hand, and counters. He was getting drained. Abruptly, I received caught. I don’t know what occurred there.”
Undercard
Richard Torrez Jr. (11-0, 10 KOs) received the NABF junior heavyweight title by DQ, with Joey Dawejko (28-12-4, 16 KOs) continuously warned for spitting out his gumshield and having already misplaced two factors for a similar offence. Torrez had elevated the tempo and was starting to interrupt down his opponent, with a formidable shot choice.
20-year-old tremendous light-weight prospect Emiliano Vargas (12-0, 10 KOs) defeated the courageous Irish-born Larry Fryers (13-7-1, 5 KOs) with a fifth-round TKO. The KO got here from a fantastically timed left-hand shot.
Charly Suarez (18-0, 10 KOs) scored a formidable third-round TKO victory in opposition to Jorge Castaneda (17-4, 13 KOs), profitable the vacant WBO Worldwide Tremendous Featherweight title.
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Unbeaten light-weight prospect Alan Garcia (14-1, 11 KOs) was surprised with an enormous overhand proper by Ricardo Fernandez (16-13, 2 KO) within the fifth spherical in a stunning end result on the undercard.
DJ Zamora (14-0, 9 KOs) prolonged his unbeaten skilled file, profitable unanimously in opposition to Gerardo Antonio Perez (12-6-1, 3 KOs). The scorecards of their tremendous featherweight bout learn 80-72, 79-73 and 80-72 all favouring Zamora.
The proficient tremendous flyweight prospect Steven Navarro (4-0, 3 KOs) showcased his glorious punch variation as he stopped Oscar Arroyo (3-3, 2 KOs within the third spherical of their combat.
Jorge Garcia Perez (31-4, 26 KOs) defeated Ilias Essaoudi (22-3, 15 KOs) with a brutal physique shot within the first spherical of their tremendous welterweight bout.
Sebastian Hernandez (17-0, 16 KOs) impressed as soon as once more, defeating Yonfrez Parejo (24-7-1, 12 KOs) by fourth-round TKO of their tremendous bantamweight contest.
