BN Report: Shut but no cigar for Magsayo from Figueroa – Boxing News
AS THE combat entered the later rounds it appeared as if Brandon Figueroa would have to rally down the stretch to pull out a 12-round determination over Mark Magsayo, but that was not the case. When there is no disputing that the final decision in favour of the Weslaco, Texas fighter was honest, the formal scorecards a lot more than flattered him.
Although the outcome appeared to be in question right up to the last bell, Judges Zachary Youthful (118-108), Gary Ritter (117-109), and Fernando Villareal (117-109), experienced Figueroa successful in a rout. Magsayo and his manager Sean Gibbons vented about the scoring in the dressing space afterward, as they did about referee Thomas Taylor deducting two details and his all round dealing with of the contest.
For what it is worthy of, BN scored 114-112, Figueroa.
In several methods this struggle performed out as envisioned in that Magsayo, 27, would get off to a rapid start right before Figueroa’s relentless force would turn the tide. The Filipino exhausted poorly down the extend and was strictly in a survival manner by the stop.
“I dominated him. It was tension, force, force,” mentioned Figueroa afterward. “He was emotion the punches to the overall body. I confused him a large amount. He did not know what to do.”
Effectively, not exactly. It was a situation of Magsayo being not able to sustain the rate, practically nothing additional. Following using rounds two and three on all the judges’ scorecards, inexplicably he won only a person additional on two of them. Magsayo landed high-quality shots on his southpaw opponent in the course of, but there was a perception they have been thrown more with the intent of holding Figueroa off him than nearly anything else.
Doing work driving a fantastic jab, Figueroa, 26, showed a sense of urgency coming out for the sixth spherical. He stunned Magsayo with a left and landed right hooks. Magsayo tried out to steal the spherical by flurrying at the conclusion as he did several situations all over the contest. In fairness to referee Taylor, he did warn Magsayo at many details about holding. Magsayo would lock up Figueroa’s remaining arm on the inside of, a veteran move but one that is not exactly legal. In the eighth, the initial of the two factors was deducted. The action was also temporarily halted after the fighters clashed heads. The decline of a point spurred Magsayo on and he rallied with quite a few combos. Magsayo also got the far better of issues in the ninth for BN, nevertheless not on the formal cards. His speedier hands held him forward of Figueroa throughout the exchanges. But that was his previous hurrah. The championship rounds were being all Figueroa.
In the middle of the 10th a still left hook to the system terribly hurt Magsayo. He went down twice in the round in an apparent endeavor to invest in time, both equally named slips. Then in the 11th a different stage was deducted for keeping. Taylor’s simply call was a tiny harsh, but taking into consideration the latitude he experienced supplied Magsayo the spherical just before it evened items out.
Magsayo was fatigued and content material to just see out the remaining round. He had appear in a minor more than the 126 pound featherweight restrict at the weigh in and had to be reweighed two hours later. Figueroa pressed the motion, but the CompuBox statistics showed him throwing much significantly less than in earlier matches. But credit score to Figueroa for not currently being denied. With the victory Figueroa gained the WBC’s interim featherweight bauble a scrap with that organisation’s belt-holder, Rey Vargas, is expected to arrive following.
At a single time previous 154lbs belt-holder Jarrett Hurd was a pressure, but just after becoming pulled out at the close of the ninth spherical from Armando Resendiz, he can’t be expected to be additional than a gatekeeper heading ahead. Hurd was coming off of a 21-thirty day period layoff pursuing a reduction. Resendiz was supposed to be the kind of opponent that would jumpstart his profession, but the Mexican turned out to be a handful and even exceeded his coach Manny Robles’ expectations.
To say that Resendiz came to fight was an understatement. His large function amount under no circumstances wavered all through. Hurd attempted to match it and experienced times of achievements, but merely could not keep the torrid tempo. While it was stopped in the corner by the medics at the close of the ninth spherical due to a terrible laceration of Hurd’s lip, formally it goes into the guides at currently being halted 5 seconds into the 10th. Being that there was only just one spherical left in the scheduled 10, not permitting Hurd to finish it out is testament to the severity of that slash. It would in all probability not have mattered in any case getting that Resendiz was up on all 3 scorecards by margins of 89-82 and 87-84 twice.
Maryland’s Hurd, 32, experimented with to box and focus much more on defence than he had in the past. He jabbed hard and observed the variety with jotting rights. At the conclude of 4 rounds things were going his way. But Resendiz, 24, under no circumstances stopped coming forward and the power drained from his opponent.
The seventh round was a vintage, conjuring up reminiscences of Arturo Gatti vs Mickey Ward. The enthusiasts at the Toyota Arena (PBC Promoted) roared with delight. The torrid speed continued until eventually the finish. There may be improved middleweights than Resendiz, but you will be tough pressed to uncover just a person who can match his push and desire. Ray Corona refereed.
Elijah Garcia, a 19-12 months-outdated from Arizona, developed a buzz by sensationally stopping Uruguay’s Amilcar Vidal at 2-17 of the fourth round of a scheduled 10. Just after a somewhat even a few rounds, southpaw Garcia compelled Vidal to the ropes and hurt him with a right hook. A adhere to up barrage despatched Vidal to the canvas. Referee Jack Reiss promptly waved it off without the need of bothering to depend.
Terrell Gausha, from Cleveland, landed a attractiveness of a right that dropped Los Angeles’ Brandyn Lynch at the commence of the ninth spherical of their scheduled 10. Lynch went down two times far more and it was stopped at 50 seconds of the spherical.
THE VERDICT – Figueroa receives the victory even though Resendiz threatened to steal the present
