In an thrilling battle, tremendous featherweight contender Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez (28-1, 28 KOs) outslugged veteran Miguel Marriaga (31-8, 26 KOs), scoring a sixth-round stoppage on Saturday evening of their chief help bout on the Dignity Well being Sports activities Park, Carson, California.
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The struggle was not among the many 27-year-old Sugar Nunez’s simpler matches as a result of he took large energy photographs from Marriaga, 37, in every spherical.
‘Sugar’ Proves Too Candy for Marriaga
Nunez neutralized a lot of Marriaga’s energy by staying shut and crowding him. In spherical 4, Sugar Nunez knocked Marriaga down with a proper hand that despatched him partially by way of the underside ropes. Marriaga wasn’t prepared for the appropriate hand, and it mowed him down.
Regardless of that knockdown, Marriaga fought effectively within the fourth and fifth rounds, touchdown occasional physique and headshots that had the group roaring. Nunez didn’t appear to thoughts that he was getting caught flush, as his total focus was to land his proper hand and mixtures.
Nunez backed Marriaga up in opposition to the ropes within the sixth and shelled him with speedy mixtures. Marriaga did a very good job of creating Nunez miss lots of his photographs, however he was throwing so many who it was unimaginable.
Within the sixth spherical, Marriaga went down from a physique shot. After the spherical, the referee known as a halt to the struggle after checking in with Marriaga’s nook.
With the win, ‘Sugar’ Nunez will face the winner of the September twenty first struggle between IBF tremendous featherweight champion Anthony Cacace and Josh Warrington.
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