Jaime Munguia (44-1, 35 KO) bounced back from his loss to Canelo Alvarez tonight, in a knockout win over Erik Bazinyan (32-1-1, 23 KO) in 10 rounds of competitive action. The fight started out fairly even over the first half of the fight with Bazinyan using his sharp jab to pick off Munguia with good frequency as Munguia looked to set up his power punches.
But as the fight wore on Munguia’s body attack and power punching saw Bazinyan begin to fade, and with a less effective jab to keep Munguia on the outside, Munguia was able to mount more of his overwhelming offense and power punches with both hands. Bazinyan had never been past the tenth round in his career, didn’t get to make it any further as Munguia found the range on his left hook which badly staggered Bazinyan two times in the tenth.
The second time Munguia hurt Bazinyan in Round 10, he made sure to close the show as he poured on power punches with both hands until a compromised Bazinyan finally collapsed, unable to make the 10-count. The official stoppage came at the 2:36 minute mark.
In the post-fight interview Munguia said he’ll be looking to face either Caleb Plant or Edgar Berlanga next.
Richard Torrez DQ-5 Joey Dawejko
Richard Torrez (11-0, 10 KOs) proved to be too much for journeyman Joey Dawejko (28-12-4, 16 KOs) tonight, forcing a DQ stoppage after four rounds of dominance whichfeatured Dawejko repeatedly losing his mouthpiece time after time, until the referee was forced to finally call it off in the fifth.
To that point Torrez was handling his business, setting a fast pace and landing clean shots in combination. Dawejko couldn’t keep pace with Torrez so resorted to some veteran tactics by spitting out his mouthpiece to cause some breaks in the action, and a couple of those instances may not have actually been on purpose.
Be that as it may, after the third or fourth time Dawejko lost his mouthepiece the referee clearly told him the next time would result in a DQ, and that next time came in the very next round which halted the fight in a bit of an unsatisfying manner, but by that point the truth of the fight had already been revealed.
Emiliano Vargas TKO-5 Larry Fryers
Emiliano Vargas (12-0, 10 KOs) dominated in the ESPN opener, blistering Larry Fryers (13-7-1, 5 KOs) with punches from all angles as thrashed him over four rounds and some change. To Fryers’ credit, he came to fight and not lay down as the B-side in the fight, but his courage really only served him to take sustained punishment to both the head and body, with the referee standing very close to the action at multiple points, ready to wave it off.
In the fifth round Vargas tagged Fryers with two hard body shots that brought his guard down, and then landed a clean head shot that finally put Fryers down. The referee immediately stopped the fight right on the knockdown, having already seen Fryers take enough punishment beforehand to allow him to continue.