Mark Magsayo Vs Rey Vargas
Mark Magsayo yielded the WBC featherweight crown to Mexican Rey Vargas on a split decision at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Magsayo obtained off to a sturdy start, rocking Vargas with a pair of overhand rights to the head in the first round. He had the cleaner pictures as Vargas failed to land a single jab. In the second, Vargas made a key adjustment, began sticking the jab to set up distance and saved away from Magsayo. The Mexican controlled the tempo from lengthy vary as Magsayo charged in but couldn’t discover a standing target. In the fifth, Vargas received careless and used to be staggered by a proper but in the subsequent round, went on a scorching physique attack that disrupted Magsayo’s rhythm. A clash of heads ripped a cut in the corner of Vargas’ left eye. Magsayo stepped it up in the eighth as blood trickled from Vargas’ gash and landed a vicious proper to the jaw, buckling the Mexican’s knees. No doubt, it used to be a close contest between two undefeated fighters. The knockdown should’ve spelled the difference in the scorecards but two judges brushed aside it.
Magsayo took the defeat without protest, however, MP Promotions head Sean Gibbons fumed at the way two of the three judges scored it for Vargas. Judges Tim Cheatham and David Sutherland had it 115-112, each for the Mexican challenger whilst judge Jesse Reyes noticed it 114-113 for Magsayo. “I’ve seen close choices earlier than however this stinks,” said Gibbons who watched from ringside. “Vargas used to be on his backfoot running, now not prevailing rounds. It’s the politics I don’t like, the phase of boxing that’s now not right. This happened to even Sen. Manny (Pacquiao). But we’ll deal with it. I just don’t suppose you win the belt going for walks away.”
