Just like his soon to be Hall of Fame Father, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. won his first world championship in his forty-third bout as he scored a twelve round majority decision over Sebastian Zbik to wrestle the WBC Middleweight title at Staples Center Los Angeles.
Not much was known about Zbik other then he was a fundamentally sound technician and he proves that to be the case as he was an active fighter who had an accurate right hand. Chavez started his patented body shots. Alot of the rounds were similar with Chavez getting in his body and Zbik landing combinations. Chavez got through in round five as he wobbled Zbik with a solid overhand right.
The fight had action in every round as Chavez pulled slightly ahead due to his assault on the flanks of Zbik. As the rounds went on, those body shots began to dig deeper in Zbik and there was still some doubt as Zbik landed and threw more shots.
Chavez, 160 lbs of Culican, MX won by scores of 116-112; 115-113 and 114-114 to become a champion with a record of 43-0-1. Zbik, 158 3/4 lbs of Hamburg, Germany is now 30-1.
Miguel Angel “Mikey” Garcia scored a fourth round stoppage over late replacement Rafael Guzman in round four of a scheduled ten round Featherweight bout.
Guzman, who took the bout in just three days notice after Miguel Beltran Jr. had to bow out due to an injury, came out in round one and used his 5’10” height to his advantage. Garcia needed just that one round ti get into his rhythm as he landed some nice right hands that opened up a cut over the right eye of Guzman. Garcia upped the power on his punches in three which was a prelude to come in the next frame. In that fourth round, Garcia landed a perfect right that dropped Guzman to the canvas. He had trouble getting to his feet and the fight was waved off at 1:58 of round four.
Garcia, 127 lbs of Oxnard, CA is now 26-0 with twenty-two knockouts. Guzman, 126 3/4 lbs of Guadalajara, Mexico is now 28-3.