Rey Vargas vs. O’Shaquie Foster: LIVE updates, results, full coverage
O’Shaquie Foster defeated Rey Vargas by a unanimous decision to win the vacant WBC 130-pound title.
The official scores were 119-109, 117-111 and 116-112. Boxing Junkie also had it 117-111, nine rounds to three.
Foster (20-2, 11 KOs) frustrated Vargas (36-1, 22 KOs) for most of the fight, picking his spots to attack and proving to be difficult to hit with any consistency.
Vargas, who remains the WBC 126-pound champion, had some good rounds in the second half of the fight but it was Foster who got more done in the final few rounds to pull away on the cards.
You can read a full report here.
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Lenier Pero stopped Viktor Faust in the eighth round of a scheduled 10-round bout between heavyweight prospects. The official time of the stoppage was 2:28.
Faust (11-1, 7 KOs) was the busier fighter and appeared to be winning the fight when Pero (9-0, 5 KOs) hurt him with a right to the body and followed with a left to the head.
The Ukrainian remained on his feet but turned away in pain, at which point Pero unloaded a series of unanswered shots that prompted the referee to stop the fight.
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Rey Vargas and O’Shaquie Foster are scheduled to fight for the vacant WBC 130-pound title Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio (Showtime).
Also featured on the card, Mario Barrios will face Jovanie Santiago in a welterweight bout, and Lenier Pero will take on Viktor Faust in a heavyweight matchup.
The main portion of the show is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT. The main event will take place later in the broadcast.
Boxing Junkie will post the result of the main event and the co-features immediately after they end. Simply return to this post and refresh when the time comes.
Full coverage – a fight story, photo gallery and analysis – will follow on separate posts the night of the fight and the following day.
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