Emanuel Navarrete and Oscar Valdez squared off in the main event live on ESPN from Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, AZ on Saturday, August 12. The all-Mexican contest featured three-division world champion defending his WBO junior lightweight title against two-division world champion.
The scheduled for 12 rounds world championship bout went the full distance and produced fireworks. In the end, one judge scored the fight 116-112, another judge had 118-110 and the third judge gave 119-109, all in favor of “Vaquero”.
With the victory by unanimous decision, 28-year-old Emanuel Navarrete of San Juan Zitlaltepec, Distrito Federal improved to 38-1, 31 KOs and made the first successful defense of the belt that he landed in February via ninth-round stoppage of Liam Wilson. 32-year-old Oscar Valdez of Nogales, Sonora dropped to 31-2, 23 KOs and suffered his second career defeat.
In Australia, the event aired live on Sunday, August 13.
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