Saül Canelo Álvarez defends its world super middleweight titles CMB i WITH against the mandatory challenger of the first body, Avni Yildirim, At the main event of a DAZN billboard Saturday night at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium.
Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KOs) has won titles in four different divisions (junior middle, middle, super middle and light heavyweight), and now needs to beat Yildirim to fight again next May.
Here are the results of Alvarez vs. Yildirim’s billboard in Miami:
In action: Zhilei Zhang vs. Jerry Forrest, 10 rounds, heavyweight
Pacheco dominates Gomez Jr. by unanimous decision
Diego Pacheco wanted the knockout, but had to settle for a 79-73 more close-knit unanimous decision victory than expected for the 19-year-old against veteran Rodolfo Gomez Jr., in the super middleweight.
Pacheco (11-0, 8 KOs) connected a few good hits, including a couple of good uppercuts throughout the fight, but this was only the third time he reached the agreed rounds and the second he passed from the fourth. assault.
Gómez Jr. (14-5-1, 10 KOs) was a good test for Pacheco. He hooked up a few times and was intermittently frustrated. It was also a good round of work for Pacheco, who first completed the eight rounds.
Marc Castro knocks with authority
At the start of the day, Marc Castro was far superior to his rival and dropped his left hand on Jhon Moraga to knock out at 02:29 minutes of the second round, in a fight agreed to four, and become the his second triumph as a professional.
Castro (2-0, 2 KOs) knocked down Moraga (1-3, 1 KO) three times in two rounds ending the fight with an uppercut from the left. Moraga has had an impressive MMA career: 19-7, including an opportunity for the UFC fly title in 2013, where he lost to Demetrious Johnson. But these qualities have not been seen in boxing.
Castro, 21, is just beginning his career, but Ryan Garcia’s friend did the job without complicating things.
The rest of the scheduled fights:
• McWilliams Arroyo vs. Abraham Rodriguez, 12 rounds for the interim CMB flyweight title.