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By: Sean Crose Showtime has a pretty good card tonight, airing live from Carson, California's Dignity Health Sports Park. The 31-0 Luis Nery will put his
Luis Nery was stopped with a body shot. Photo Credit: Esther Lin/SHOWTIME
Brandon Figueroa added the WBC Super Bantamweight title to his WBA (Regular) belt, as he knocked out Luis Nery in seven rounds in a toe-to-toe war in Carson, California.
The pair came into the clash unbeaten in a combined 53 fights, and Nery walked in as a two-weight world champion, having previously reigned at Super Bantamweight, while WBA title holder Figueroa was making the third defence of his belt.
Nery began with menace, setting his stall out by using his jab effectively and also nailing Figueroa with a left hand that momentarily stunned the WBA champion in round one.
Brandon Figueroa TKO-7 Luis Nery
Tonight’s Showtime main event largely lived up to Carson, CA standards with a fast-paced action fight between titleholder Luis Nery and Brandon Figueroa before Figueroa ultimately scored the stoppage to win the WBC and WBA ‘regular’ world title. Nery actually got off to a fast start in this fight, finding his range early and often which Figueroa made easy by his style of fighting which favors getting in close and letting his hands fly.
For the first half of the fight Nery was largely in control of the fight, but in the seventh round things took a dramatic change as Nery started having trouble maintaining the pace of the fight and during an exchange Figueroa landed a well-placed left hand to the body which put Nery down and unable to beat the 10-count.
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