Richard Torrez Jr. had little bother coping with his most skilled opponent so far on Friday, defeating Joey Dawejko by fifth spherical disqualification at Desert Diamond Area in Glendale, Az.
Torrez (11-0, 10 knockouts) was moments away from his eleventh straight knockout win to start his profession when Dawejko (28-12-4, 16 KOs) was disqualified for shedding his mouthpiece 5 occasions in two rounds, leading to two level deductions earlier than the struggle was waived off.
“Joey was a vet, similar to I mentioned. He didn’t hand over. That mouthpiece got here out just a little an excessive amount of. That’s a veteran transfer, however on the finish of the day, congratulations to him. He put up a very good struggle. I feel we had been capable of present extra boxing means that I used to be telling you about,” mentioned Torrez, the 2020 Olympic tremendous heavyweight silver medalist from Tulare, Calif.
Torrez utilized superior footwork and mixture punching to overwhelm the 34-year-old Dawejko early on. Dawejko started to extend his output within the second, touchdown a number of counterpunches in an try and decelerate the 25-year-old Torrez.
Joey Dawejko is DQ’d for extreme lack of his mouthpiece 😯 pic.twitter.com/WUHO9dPBuB
— Prime Rank Boxing (@trboxing) September 21, 2024
The result was turning into extra obvious within the fourth as Torrez’s busy proper hand blinded Dawejko to the southpaw left fingers that had been crashing into Dawejko’s head with larger regularity. Together with his nostril a bloodied mess, Dawejko proceeded to lose his mouthpiece 4 occasions within the spherical, with the referee selecting it off the canvas and inserting it into his mouth every time with out rinsing it off, deducting two factors alongside the way in which. In between the quick breaks, Dawejko was starting to interrupt down bodily as effectively, with a left uppercut practically dropping him at one level.
The loss ends a run for Dawejko the place he had gained seven out of his earlier eight bouts following again to again stoppage losses to Stephan Shaw and Zhan Kossobutskiy in 2022 and 2021.
Torrez-Dawejko was the co-main occasion to the cardboard which was headlined by the tremendous middleweight bout between Jaime Munguia and Erik Bazinyan on ESPN.
Emiliano Vargas kicked off the ESPN portion of the cardboard with a brutal fifth spherical stoppage of Larry Fryers in an eight spherical scheduled junior welterweight.
Vargas (12-0, 10 KOs), the son of former junior middleweight champion Fernando Vargas, took goal observe on the New York based mostly Irishman Fryers (13-7-1, 5 KOs), dropping Fryers with a left hand from the southpaw stance, compelling the referee to cease the struggle on the 1:23 mark with no rely.
The 21-year-old Vargas was in management from the opening bell as his 34-year-old opponent adopted with out reducing the ring off or giving any angles. Vargas started to take benefit with counter punches from each fingers, backing his smaller opponent into the ropes. Vargas settled into extra of a boxing tempo within the second spherical however nonetheless was capable of damage Fryers with a flurry of left uppercuts. With Fryers’ nostril busted open, and being unable to match the firepower of Vargas, the referee started watching carefully for a second to cease the struggle.
Fryers appeared to get a minor break within the fifth as Vargas appeared to harm his proper hand after touchdown it on Fryers’ head early within the fifth. Vargas tailored to throwing simply left fingers for the remainder of the spherical earlier than scoring the knockdown moments later.
“I discovered expertise. Each time I’m within the ring, I decide up extra expertise below my belt. You study on the job. I don’t care what anybody says. There’s no video on tips on how to be an expert fighter. I’m simply blessed to do it right here for the attractive Arizona followers,” mentioned Vargas, whose brothers Fernando Vargas Jr. (15-0, 14 KOs) and Amado Vargas (11-0, 5 KOs) are additionally professional boxers.
The loss is the fourth by stoppage for Fryers.
