Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-04-22, close and tough fight with an exciting finish: Oscar Valdez vs Miguel Marriaga is one of the best boxing fights of 2017 and it gets four stars!The undefeated Wbo Fw champion Oscar Valdez entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 21-0-0 (19 KOs=90%) and he is ranked as the No.7 featherweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Leo Santa Cruz). He fought three times last year winning over Evgeny Gradovich (=Valdez vs Gradovich), Matias Carlos Adrian Rueda (=Valdez vs Rueda) and Hiroshige Osawa (=Valdez vs Osawa).
His opponent, Miguel Marriaga, has an official record of 25-1-0 (21 KOs=84%) and he entered as the No.26 in the same weight class. He suffered his only loss when he faced Nicholas Walters in 2015 (=Walters vs Marriaga), after this fight he has won five bouts beating Adones Aguelo, Guy Robb and Eduardo Montoya in 2016. Oscar Valdez vs Miguel Marriaga is valid for the WBO World featherweight title (Valdez’s second defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2017-04-22
Where: StubHub Center, Carson, California, USA
Division: featherweight (126 lbs, 57.2 kg)
Title: WBO World featherweight title
Marriaga’s next fight: Vasyl Lomachenko vs Miguel Marriaga
Valdez’s next fight: Oscar Valdez vs Genesis Servania
Valdez vs Marriaga Official Video:
(Alternative free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
Official highlights
Yet another FOTY candidate I’m afraid…!
Excellent and quite interesting fight involving two powerful punchers and resilient boxers. Marriaga was the full time aggressor but to no avail because the boxing skills of Valdez were superior. He combined his excellent head and body moves with a very accurate and strong jab making a big difference in the score. Round 10 was incredibly good and hard to believe that Marriaga was able to survive it.
could have been a draw or split decision. vasquez did not have this fight under control. it was close both have corazon
Secret: I just agree with you that two of the judges cards were unfair to Marriaga but the 116/111 just reflects reality. Marriaga aggression wasn’t effective because he was missing most of his punches although it appears to be the opposite. Despite the fact that Valdez moved backward his displacements and jab work were enough to overcame such aggression what it means, from a different optic, he was controlling the fight. Valdez victory was clear enough mainly taking into account the excellent knock down he got in the 10th round. Watch the fight again and please correct me if I’m wrong.
As usual Mr Tango does it again another mind blowing THEATRICAL review! There’s only one Tango thee old bugger !
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outstanding fight. daft scorecards. boxing full of corrupt judges
Sanctioning bodies are scum for alowing these scorecards and still employing these filthy judges back to score fights, disgusting.
Well i had it 116/110
1 round tied (2) . 6,9,and the 11th to Marriaga. Course the knock down in the 10th. So the 1 judge saw it 99% as me. Assume he didn’t split that 1 round as I did.
Dido on the commentators. At least the guest commentator – not scoring because you prefer coming forward? They scored the 3rd for M and it was a very easy round to score (Valdez)
Marriaga just doesn’t have the skills to contend with a boxer.
He was following Valdez around the ring all night long. I did not see him cut off the ring even once.
No10Count: Totally agree, you got it right, mainly round 3 which was an easy one for Valdez. Marraiaga was certainly very aggressive but quite ineffective with no enough skills to caught Valdez as required. The score of 116/110 is right the other two were no good because benefit to much Valdez disregarding the reasonable work done by Marriaga.
So excited fight .. good technic for both fighter and really braves.. Valdés was supirior but I think some of the judges was blind..
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