Key events
Brandon Figueroa has just stopped Jessie Magdaleno to retain his WBC interim featherweight title. Figueroa delivered a withering left hook to the liver as the bell rang to signal the end of the ninth round. Magdaleno went down in a crumple, didn’t come close to beating the 10-count and that was that.
That leaves one more undercard fight before tonight’s main event and it’s coming up next: Mario Barrios and Fabian Andres Maidana in a scheduled 12-rounder for Barrios’ WBC interim welterweight title.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to tonight’s super middleweight championship fight between Canelo Álvarez and Jaime Munguía. We’ve got a fascinating matchup in store as the 33-year-old Álvarez, a four-division champion and boxing’s biggest star, puts his WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles at 168lbs on the line against the 27-year-old Munguía, who is unbeaten in 43 professional bouts with 34 wins inside the distance.
It’s only the sixth all-Mexican undisputed title fight at any weight in boxing history and the first in more than 52 years, when Rafael Herrera stopped Ruben Olivares for the WBA and WBC bantamweight titles on 19 March 1972.
We’re about 90 minutes away from the main event. Plenty more to come between now and then.
Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s Donald McRae’s interview with Oscar De La Hoya from earlier this week.
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