WBC #2, WBO #5, IBF #6, WBA #10 super middleweight Jaime Munguia (44-1, 35 KOs) scored a spectacular tenth round knockout against previously unbeaten WBO #2, WBA #4, WBC #7, IBF #7 Erik Bazinyan (32-1-1, 23 KOs) in the 12-round main event on Friday night at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Munguia broke open a close fight in round ten with a barrage of shots that put Bazinyan down for the count. Time was 2:36.
In an interesting heavyweight bout, unbeaten Olympic silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. (11-0, 10 KOs) stepped up in class to get a fifth round DQ win over veteran Joey “The Tank” Dawejko (28-12-4, 16 KOs). Torrez progressively broke down Dawejko. Dawejko was deducted two points and eventually disqualified for repeatedly losing his mouthpiece. Time was 2:02 in round five. The result ended Torrez’ 10-fight knockout streak.
Junior welterweight prospect Emiliano Vargas (12-0, 10 KOs) stopped spoiler Larry Fryers (13-7-1, 5 KOs) in round five. A straight left ended the beatdown. Vargas is the son of former world champion Fernando Vargas.
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Right and left body shots, then left to the face from Emiliano and stop counting
Someone from Probox please call Fryers and put him on your card. Matched against someone of his caliber and we would have a great fight as he never quits that’s for sure
– The Torrez / Dawejko fight was a major disappointment………….
That’s bullshit. Torrez should have been awarded the fight by TKO. That jerk kept spitting out his mouthpiece on purpose and the DQ ruined Torrez’s KO record. They should change the rules about that.
The ref is supposed to wait for a natural pause in the action to put the mouthpiece back. He should have let torres knock boys teeth out
Looks like Richard Torrez Jr will be fighting Peter McNeeley in December.
That comment is just about as absurd as asking kids to do drugs, supporting hate crime antisemite terrorists who terrorize college campuses, as obtuse liberals like yourself foolishly call this legal protesting, or a trillion times worse, supporting Terror Loving Harris.
Artie, you are in no position to put down Richard Torrez Jr. Now go home and play with your Liberal Hero action figures.
Kamala is gonna bury conservative dipshits like you this year! Woohoo!
York, yawn! I don’t think I’ll bring having word salad anytime soon.
Yawn on your yawn bra.
Estas bien pendej0.
BZO put up a better fight than expected. Definitely a good fight. The 168 weight class jockeying for position begins. Munguia vs. Mbilli? Plant vs. Mbilli? Pacheco vs any three of them? I wouldn’t mind seeing Mccumby vs. BZO.
Torrez fight was a disappointment big time, but torrez did show a different side.
I missed the fights, so maybe someone can fill me in. Why did Dawejko keep losing his mouthpiece? Was he hurt, or was he that out of shape?
– Tim Bradley said that it was probably not a professional mouthpiece.
– Maybe he got it from Walmart…………
I think this one might have been from Temu.
🙂 LOL!!
these top rank and golden boy fighters back to getting “participation award ” victories .
I thought it was fairly close until around the 8th round. It is a more mature performance from Jaime. A shootout with Pacheco would be a cracking fight.
That was a really good fight. I enjoyed every round. Evenly matched. Morales has done great things with Munguía. I would have liked to see more of Munguia firing off the bobs and weaves to disrupt any incoming like he started to in round 8. He’s still improving so we should see that in the next fight. Throw in a respectable jab and he is going to be an issue for anyone.
Bazinyan did great. He got caught a few times too many for hanging out in traffic for too long, but this will serve as a tweaking point for the rematch because I think they might run it back. Instead of trying to crack Munguía every time he came in weaving, he could have taken a half step back to make Munguia reset and then fired combos. Regardless, this was a good fight.
Dawajko came in horribly out of shape. That’s a damn shame. He has the skills and the pop to have kept things very interesting but for whatever reason, he looked like he was gassed by the end of the first.
Although Torres looked sharp, he shouldn’t jump too high just yet. He’s at a good pace and should take his time gaining as much good experience as possible before jumping in to the deep side of the pool.
“Dawajko came in horribly out of shape”
– Checking BoxRec, at 244 pounds, Dawajko was his lightest weight since 2018 when he fought Bryant Jennings.
– Doesn’t he remind you of Tank Abbot from the UFC????
Right and left body shots then a shot to the face and Munguia finished Erik
Dawejko performs in something called Team Combat League, in which fighters from each team fight only one round. Did Dawejko only train for a one-round fight? Back in February, Dawejko claimed that Team Combat League was the “future of boxing.” Huh? That’s one of the most ridiculous statements ever! Congolese heavyweight Arde Ndembo was killed just seconds into a TCL show in Florida, AFTER he’d been brutally knocked out twice in sparring in less than a month prior, according to people who witnessed it at the Vegas gyms. Ndembo should’ve never even been in the ring on that fateful evening! Who was in his corner?
To me Nordic, he was out of shape and he intentionally spit his mouthpiece out a few times. The last two were because he got cracked with his mouth open. I was disappointed because I thought Joey was going to give torrez better experience and test him a bit. It was anything but. I was wrong.