Floyd Schofield confirmed some flaws nonetheless, however took a transparent unanimous resolution win over Rene Tellez Giron in Golden Boy’s essential occasion from Las Vegas, with Gabriela Fundora changing into undisputed flyweight champion on the undercard.
The 22-year-old Schofield (18-0, 12 KO), thought-about one among boxing’s high light-weight prospects, beat Giron on scores of 116-111, 118-109, and 118-109 in an often-ugly bout heavy on fouls and solely often thrilling.
Schofield did get rocked a little bit early by the 25-year-old Giron (20-3, 13 KO), then was dominated down in spherical 11 when he bought clipped whereas lacking a punch. Schofield was additionally criticized by his nook for lapses in protection and in judgment. Schofield doubtless might have cruised extra to a call, however was nonetheless preventing to do harm into the twelfth and remaining spherical.
Schofield is very ranked by the WBA at 135 lbs, however there are nonetheless steps to take earlier than attempting to battle on the very high degree, except an unimaginable supply is made.
Gabriela Fundora goes undisputed
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At age 22, Gabriela Fundora turned boxing’s youngest four-belt undisputed champion ever, stopping Gabriela Alaniz within the seventh spherical to completely unify the flyweight division.
Fundora (15-0, 7 KO) got here in holding the IBF title, and added the WBC, WBA, and WBO belts with the win over Alaniz (15-1, 6 KO). Alaniz was aggressive right here, however bought dropped as soon as and didn’t agree with the referee’s name, so Fundora put her down face-first to complete it. No arguing that.
It was a high-quality exhibiting from Alaniz, actually, in the very best battle that may very well be made on this division, however Fundora is extra than simply somebody who’s tall for her weight. She has legit abilities, she’s a great, aggressive, offense-first boxer, and she or he makes her photographs rely. This is likely one of the greatest younger fighters within the sport right this moment.
Additionally on the undercard: Bektemir Melikuziev received a break up resolution over David Stevens in what was meant to be a WBA eliminator at tremendous middleweight, however Melikuziev missed weight, so the eliminator advantages had been solely there if Stevens received. One decide had the battle 116-112 for Stevens, however the others had it 117-111 and 118-110 for Melikuziev. … Tremendous middleweight Darius Fulghum and welterweight Joel Iriarte scored fast stoppage wins.
