The Mexican Emanuel Navarrete He produced a long-range strike to defeat his compatriot on Saturday by unanimous decision. Oscar Valdez and keep the Super featherweight title of the World Boxing Organization.
Navarrete, 28, took the win with scores in favor of 116-112, 118-110, 119-109, far from reality as the fight was evenly matched and although Navarrete was better, it wasn’t by that margin.
The battle began without a minute of exploration; both rivals came forward to propose a match. Champion Navarrete rocked the challenger with a ‘swing’ and, although he received a last-minute penalty, he took advantage.
In the second, Óscar made the monarch frustrated; With his guard closed he escaped from the attacks of the ‘Vaquero’ and leveled the fight, but Navarrete put the ‘stop’ on his rival and from long distance made good shots with his ‘jab’ and a venomous ‘upper cut’ to take advantage of lightly. after four rounds.
Valdez, 32, began to bleed from his nose, however, withstood his opponent’s attacks, yes in the exchange in the fifth and punished with his hooks and left jabs in the sixth to stay in the fight. , when reaching the middle.
With no trace of punches in his anatomy, Navarrete took advantage from behind. A sore cheekbone kept Valdez from stopping, but his opponent fared better in the seventh and eighth rounds, despite complaining of pain in his right hand.
In the ninth, Navarrete barely landed a punch and Valdez did the damage with his straight lefts and hooks, although in neither round was the winner able to do so by a wide margin.
The tenth is a good exchangeThey ended up like a street fight in a school yard, with little advantage for the challenger, who ignored his closed eye from the punishments and took the champion in the face several times.
Navarrete accepted his rival’s proposal to force the fight to the eleventh and continued his punishment of Valdez’s injured cheekbone; he kept the ‘jab’ and countered the opponent’s offense to get the victory, retain the belt and reach 38 wins, 31 by knockout with a loss.
Valdez suffered his second setback in his last three fights and went 31 wins, 23 before the limit, with two losses.
Source: La Verdad
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