“I don’t want you to get carried away,” Eddy Reynoso told Óscar Valdez after the fourth round. “Don’t make that fucking mistake,” Canelo Álvarez’s trainer urged him after the sixth round. Valdez responded to the instructions in his corner to head towards a very good victory.
Coming from a series of fights in which he did not do well and that made many believe that his end was near, Óscar Valdez emerged as interim WBO super featherweight champion on Friday night by knocking out Australian Liam Wilson in Glendale, Arizona. Her emotions came to the surface as she dropped to her knees on the canvas and cried alongside members of his team.
Valdez, who the day before had expressed his hope of returning to the top of boxing, took advantage of Wilson’s strange decision to seek a hand-to-hand fight after in the first rounds he was being very successful by fighting from a distance, by taking advantage his greater height and reach than the Mexican, who then looked uncomfortable.
In the seventh round, Valdez landed a powerful left hook as a counterpunch that shook Wilson. He went on top of him and landed numerous blows that put his rival on the verge of falling. When the round was about to end, the fighter from Nogales, Sonora, continued to connect without any real response from Wilson and referee Mark Nelson intervened to stop the fight at 2:48 minutes into the round.
Óscar Valdez’s emotion after returning to the path of victory
The referee’s intervention may have been a little premature, but Wilson did not complain about the referee’s decision that He declared a technical knockout in favor of Valdez, who earlier in his career had been WBO featherweight and WBC super featherweight world champion..
“We cried again, but with joy,” said Valdez (32-2, 24 KO) when interviewed in the ring by the ESPN reporter, regarding his tears after last year’s defeat against his compatriot Emanuel “Vaquero.” ” Navarrete. “We tested them [a los detractores] that they were wrong.”
Wilson (13-3), for his part, admitted that he did not fight intelligently. The Australian thanked Valdez for his words of encouragement at the end of the fight, when the Sonoran told him that he has what it takes to be a world champion, even admitting that he had it on a couple of occasions.
The fight tilted in favor of the 33-year-old Mexican in the fourth round, when Wilson got into his rival’s favorite distance. Although Wilson landed some uppercuts, Valdez eventually found the angles., just as Reynoso, his coach, had indicated. A strong left hook in round 5 was a harbinger of what was to come later.
The sixth round was the best of the fight for the Mexican, with a lot of volume and clarity of blows, although Reynoso criticized his fighter for allowing himself to land a powerful right blow. And in the seventh, showing all his experience, Valdez hunted down the Australian and did not let him escape.
The start of a hot weekend in boxing
Valdez, who had not won by knockout in more than three years and who lost two of his last three fights, is one of the Mexican boxers most loved by the public and this victory in which he showed maturity puts him back on the table of possible megafights.
Your good triumph, preceded by the decision victory of Mexican-American Seniesa Estrada over Costa Rican Yokasta Valle in the same ring to become undisputed strawweight champion or at least, has launched a hot weekend in boxing.
This Saturday in Las Vegas, the Mexican Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz will face the American Rolly Romero for the WBA super lightweight championship held by him. The duel has raised enormous expectations and also many provocations among the fighters.
In addition, Australian Tim Tszyu will defend his WBO super welterweight crown against American giant Sebastian Fundora, with the vacant WBC belt also at stake. And the Mexican Julio César “Rey” Martínez will present his WBC flyweight title against the Venezuelan Angelino Córdova.
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