Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-07-23, nice and tough exchanges between Oscar Valdez and Matias Rueda; it gets three stars.Both undefeated, the Mexican Oscar Valdez entered this fight with a perfect record of 19-0-0 (17 KOs=89%) and he is ranked as the No.5 featherweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Leo Santa Cruz) while his opponent, Matias Carlos Adrian Rueda, has an official boxing record of 26-0-0 (23 KOs=88%) and he entered as the No.34 in the same weight class. Valdez has fought once in 2016 beating Evgeny Gradovich (=Valdez vs Gradovich) while Rueda has fought twice defeating Leandro Mendes Pinto and Nestor Hugo Paniagua. Valdez vs Rueda is valid for the vacant WBO World featherweight title; undercard of Terence Crawford vs Viktor Postol. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2016-07-23
Where: MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Division: featherweight (126 lbs, 57.2 kg)
Title: vacant WBO World featherweight title
Valdez’s previous fight: Oscar Valdez vs Evgeny Gradovich
Valdez’s next fight: Oscar Valdez vs Hiroshige Osawa
Video: (Free embeddable highlights video hosted on Youtube)
Official video
Official highlights
Valdez looked like a master and a monster. Thrilling win.
Amen to that. These featherweights are looking evermore strong and powerful for the smaller Frampton – possibly should have remained at 122
Thank god the undercard fights were this good as the main event wasnt.
This is how Crawford should fight.
Specially if Arum wants him to be a star. As is it went – didnt deserve a PPV fight.
I just discovered Valdez and he’s my kind of boxer. Good luck buddy.
Two fighters with excellent records but Valdez was the better boxer. Unfortunately, Ruedas was too static and easy prey for the Mexican that most likely fought against harder competition. Valdez is a very good prospect and very interesting to watch for is development in the future. .