Emanuel Navarrete retained the WBO Junior Lightweight title with a controversial technical unanimous decision over Charly Suarez at The Pachanga Arena in San Diego, California.
In round one, Suarez started to bleed from the nose after Navarrete landed a straight right. In round four, Suarez was cut over the right eye from an accidental headbutt. In round six, Navarrete suffered a horrendous looking cut over his left eye from an accidental headbutt. Replays showed that it was a clean left hand from Suarez that caused the cut.
The doctor checked the cut to begin the seventh frame. The doctor then stopped the fight as the eighth bell rang.
When they went to the scorecards, Navarrete won by scores of 78-75 and 77-75 twice.
Navarrete, 130 lbs of San Juan, Mexico needed six tries to make the championship weight limit is now 40-2-1. Suarez, 129.9 lbs of Sawata, PHL is 18-1.
Muratalla Decisions Abdullaev; Wins Interim Lightweight Belt
Raymod Muratalla won the IBF Interim Lightweight Title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Zaur ABdullaev.
Muratalla landed 140 of 533 punches; Abdullawv was 87 of 352.
Abdullaev, 134.4 lbs of Fontana, CA won by scores of 119-109 twice and 118-110 and is now 23-0. Abdullaev, 134.6 lbs of Russia is 20-2.
The full champion is Vasiliy Lomachenlko. Lomachecko has not defended his title due to a back injury,
Andres Cortes remained undefeated with a 10-round unanimous decision over Salvador Jimenez in a junior lightweight bout.
Cortes landed 120 of 501 punches. Jimenez was 63 0r 253.
Cortes, 131.7 lbs of Las Vegas won by scores of 100-90 twice and 99-91 and is now 23-0. Jimenez, 131.9 lbs of Spain is 14-2-1.
Giovani Santillan won a 10-round unanimous decision over Angel Beltran in a welterweight fight.
Santillan, 147.2 lbs of San Diego won by scores of 97-93 on all cards and is now 34-1. Beltran, 146.6 lbs of Mexicali. MEX is 18-3.
Perla Bazaldua won a four-round unanimous decision over Mona Ward in a junior bantamweight fight.
Bazaldua, 114.4 lbs of Los Angeles won by scores of 40-36 on all cards and is now 2-0. Ward, 114.1 lbs of Saint Louis is 0-2.
Alan Garcia won an eight-round unanimous decision over Cristian Medina in a lightweight contest.
Garcia, 136.7 lbs of Ulysses, KS won by scores of 79-73 on all cards and is now 16-1. Medina, 136.7 lbs of Unaipan, MEX is 8-3-1.
Sebastian Hernandez remained undefeated with a 10-round unanimous decision over Azat Hovhannisyan in a junior featherweight bout.
In round nine, Hovhannisyan was docked a point for holding.
Hernandez, 122 lbs of Tijuana, MEX won by scores of 98-91 on all cards and is now 20-0. Hovhannisyan, 122.7 lbs of Terovan, ARM is 21-6.
