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 assist bout on the Dignity Well being Sports activities Park, Carson, California.
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The battle was not among the many 27-year-old Sugar Nunez’s simpler matches as a result of he took huge energy pictures 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 the underside ropes. Marriaga wasn’t prepared for the best hand, and it mowed him down.
Regardless of that knockdown, Marriaga fought properly within the fourth and fifth rounds, touchdown occasional physique and headshots that had the gang roaring. Nunez didn’t appear to thoughts that he was getting caught flush, as his whole focus was to land his proper hand and mixtures.
Nunez backed Marriaga up towards the ropes within the sixth and shelled him with speedy mixtures. Marriaga did a great job of creating Nunez miss a lot of his pictures, however he was throwing so many who it was inconceivable.
Within the sixth spherical, Marriaga went down from a physique shot. After the spherical, the referee referred to as a halt to the battle after checking in with Marriaga’s nook.
With the win, ‘Sugar’ Nunez will face the winner of the September twenty first battle between IBF tremendous featherweight champion Anthony Cacace and Josh Warrington.
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