BY MIGUEL ITURRATE
Cotto vs Kamegai Results From The StubHub - Golden Boy Promotions hooked up with HBO at the StubHub Center to bring us Cotto vs Kamegai on Saturday night.
Kamegai started the fight coming forward and he ended it much the same way twelve rounds later. Cotto showed he can still put twele rounds of solid boxing in as he threw a high volume of punches in the fight against the game Kamegai. At the end of the day the judges had the fight for Cotto, who wins a world title at 154 pounds ant 36 years old.
WBC world super bantamweight champion Rey Vargas defended his belt against Ronny Rios. Vargas, an unusually tall fighter for the weight class at 5'10 managed the space efficiently throughout the fight. Vargas was not afraid to let Rios get inside from time to time and some good exchanges resulted but Vargas slowly wore Rios out. At the end of twelve rounds, the judges had the fight for Vargas by scores of 118-110,118-110,115-113, and he moves to a perfect 30-0.
Immediately after the fight HBO will be airing the latest episode of 24/7 featuring Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin as both men prepare for their September 16th PPV showdown.
Check back later here at TSS for a live report from David Avila.
Saturday, August 26th, 2017 – StubHub Center, Carson,CA
154 LBS 12 RDS: Miguel Cotto def Yoshihiro Kamegai via UD (120-108,119-109,118-110)
122 LBS 12 RDS: Rey Vargas def Ronny Rios via UD ( 118-110,118-110,115-113)
126 LBS 10 RDS: Joet Gonzalez def Deivi Julio Bassa via KO in RD 5.
122 LBS 8 RDS: Emilio Sanchez def Danny Flores via KO in RD 5.
126 LBS 4 RDS: Tenochtitlan Nava def Angel Jimenez via UD (29-27,29-27,29-27)
105 LBS 8 RDS: Janiel Rivera def Marco Antonio Sanchez via KO in RD 1 @1:59.
140 LBS 6 RDS: Genaro Gamez def Ed Reyes via UD.
154 LBS 4 RDS: Alexis Rocha def Esau Herrera via KO in RD 1 @2:59.
149 LBS 4 RDS: Ruben Rodriguez def Rolando Padilla via TKO in RD 2 @0:47.
122 LBS 4 RDS: Ricardo Arias draw Javier Padilla (38-38,38-38,38-38)
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