Boxing Results: Rafael Espinoza Batters Khegai Until Corner Waves It Off After Ten

Rafael ‘El Divino’ Espinoza (28-0, 24 KOs) held onto his WBO featherweight title with a Tenth-round nook stoppage of fringe contender Arnold Khegai (23-3-1, 14 KOs) on Saturday evening in the principle occasion on the Enviornment Coliseo, San Luis Potosi, in Mexico.

Uppercuts Do the Heavy Lifting

Khegai’s nook selected to not enable him to return out for the eleventh spherical because of his left eye being minimize and badly swollen from the punishment he’d taken from the lanky 6’1″ Espinoza. A conflict of heads in spherical seven brought on a minimize over Khegai’s left eye, along with vital swelling.

Espinoza had used his mixture punching and uppercuts on the within to dominate the a lot shorter 5’5″ Ukraine-born Khegai. Within the seventh and the tenth, Espinoza went for broke, trying to attain a knockout of Khegai by attacking him with a flurry. It didn’t work.

The hand pace, energy, and maneuverability of Khegai allowed him to final by way of the tenth spherical earlier than being pulled out by his nook.

Early on, the referee warned Khegai for throwing rabbit punches, as he’d been looping his pictures to attempt to attain the highest of Espinoza’s head. He was pressured to do this because of Espinoza’s top benefit.

Khegai’s Nook Hits the Panic Button

Khegai’s coach warned him after the eighth spherical that he was going to cease the battle except he confirmed him one thing. He responded properly within the ninth and tenth, nailing Espinoza with massive rights to the pinnacle that he took properly. They had been pictures that might have harm loads of fighters.

The battle was correctly halted after the tenth by Khegai’s workforce as a result of he was too beat up and much behind within the contest to permit the bout to proceed.

General, it was efficiency by Espinoza. He confirmed the identical high-volume work charge that had labored for him in his latest fights. On the draw back, he was hit onerous by Khegai incessantly within the battle.

Fortuitously for Espinoza, he didn’t get hit sufficient to wobble him like we’d seen in his first battle towards Robeisy Ramirez. Nonetheless, tonight’s contest confirmed that eventually, Espinoza will get knocked out when he goes up towards a sufficiently big puncher as a result of he’s too simple to hit.

Vargas Survives a Laborious Evening

Within the co-feature bout, gentle welterweight Emiliano Vargas (16-0, 12 KOs) defeated veteran Jonathan Montrel (19-4, 15 KOs) by a tougher-than-expected 10-round unanimous resolution. Vargas landed a textbook rabbit punch in spherical one, inflicting Montrel, 35, to take a knee.

Though he complained to the referee that he’d been hit with a punch behind the pinnacle, he allowed the knockdown to face.

Montrel confirmed loads of coronary heart, making an attempt his finest to match Vargas with energy pictures to the physique and head. Within the final three rounds, Vargas gave up making an attempt to knock Montrel out and simply targeted on successful the choice.

The scores

Delgado Scrapes By Controversy

Lindolfo Delgado (24-0, 16 KOs) needed to stand up off the deck within the twelfth to go on to defeat Gabriel Gollaz Valenzuela by a controversial 12-round cut up resolution in an IBF gentle welterweight title eliminator. The scores had been 114-113, 114-113 for Delgado, and 114-113 for Gollaz.

Delgado was consuming left hooks your entire battle by the extra highly effective Valenzuela, and he appeared just like the clear loser.

With the win, the Prime Rank-promoted DelGado turns into the obligatory challenger to IBF 140-lb champion Richardson Hitchins.