Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-04-09, nice and tough exchanges between Oscar Valdez and Evgeny Gradovich: it gets three stars.The undefeated Oscar Valdez entered this fight with a perfect record of 18-0-0 (16 KOs=89%) and he is ranked as the No.7 featherweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Leo Santa Cruz). He fought four times last year beating Jose Ramirez, Ruben Tamayo (=Valdez vs Tamayo), Chris Avalos (=Avalos vs Valdez ) and Ernie Sanchez (=Valdez vs Sanchez).
His opponent, the former Ibf Fw champion Evgeny Gradovich, has an official boxing record of 21-1-1 (9 knockouts) and he entered as the No.16 in the same weight class. He suffered his only loss when he faced Lee Selby last year (=Gradovich vs Selby), after this bout he has won over Aldimar Silva Santos (=Gradovich vs Silva Santos) and Jesus Galicia (4-stars-fight Gradovich vs Galicia). Valdez vs Gradovich is valid for the vacant WBO NABO featherweight title; undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs Timothy Bradley 3. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2016-04-09
Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las vegas, Nevada, USA
Division: featherweight (126 lbs, 57.2 kg)
Title: vacant WBO NABO featherweight title
Valdez’s previous fight: Oscar Valdez vs Ernie Sanchez
Gradovich’s previous fight: Evgeny Gradovich vs Jesus Galicia
Valdez’s next fight: Oscar Valdez vs Matias Rueda
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Video:
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explosive finish vs a difficult style mentally. pressure figures affect you not only physically but mental stress.
Very good showing from Valdez.
He should be trouble for anyone at 126. Very smart guy.
Not sure bout the stoppage specially a fighter of gradovichs caliber but better sooner than stopping it too late btw my god valdez has taken on a new levels in terms of maturity, want to see him vs selby or stay at home uchiyama i think he should fight miura next to sense a measure against a banger since the Russian here wasn’t a ko artist just a good pressure fighter
Very nice fight with two qualified opponents. Evgeny, a good boxer, was the fulltime aggressor as usual but unfortunately because his lack of power and a very elusive target he was not able to do much in this fight. Valdez moves in the ring show master perfection changing angles quite often and connecting very good punches and combinations at the same time he was doing that. He was technically superior and in addition to, he has evidently a lot of punching power. Valdez is a very good prospect to be follow up.
In my opinion the stoppage was right since it seems that Evgeny’s nose was broken. Anyhow, I do not believe that Evgeny has any chance to beat Valdez if the fight continuing.