By: Sean Crose
In a battle of undefeateds, the 14-0 Callum Walsh battled the 17-0 Fernando Vargas Jr in a ten rounder at tremendous middleweight on Saturday evening. Theirs was the comain occasion on the insanely anticipated Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford superfight card. Walsh hit the mat within the first, but it surely was a slip quite than a knockdown. The second noticed Walsh sticking and shifting. Vargas zapped along with his jab within the third whereas Walsh labored the physique. The fourth and fifth had been lower than enthralling. The sixth noticed every man sticking to his technique.
The seventh was shut, although Vargas might have edged with with efficient punching. By the eighth it was clear that the struggle would come right down to what model of boxing the choose’s favored -high output boxing or boxing that relied on sharp punching. Walsh was letting his fingers go to good impact within the ninth. Vargas picked up the tempo within the tenth and closing spherical. Was it sufficient, although? Based on the judges, it wasn’t. Walsh received the unanimous choice win.
