Weigh-In Results: Emanuel Navarrete Battles Ruben Villa for Vacant WBO Featherweight World Title at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT live on ESPN – Undercard action to stream LIVE on ESPN+ at 7:30 p.m.
This Friday night former 122-pound titlist Emanuel Navarrete moves up in weight to challenge unbeaten contender Ruben Villa for a vacant WBO featherweight strap.
Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete has won 27 consecutive bouts. Ruben Villa has never lost as a professional. Something will give Friday evening (ESPN, 10 p.m.
Action-packed lineup, led by Lomachenko-Lopez (October 17), includes Inoue-Moloney (October 31), Beterbiev-Adam Deines (October 23), Navarrete-Ruben Villa (October 9) and Jose Zepeda-Ivan Baranchyk (October 3)
Four belts, one champion.
Shakur Stevenson has given up his WBO featherweight strap, and Emanuel Navarrete will be moving up to 126 to fight for the vacant belt.
K.O. Artist Emanuel Navarrete (32-1, 28 K.O.s) could face #1 WBO ranked Michael Conlan for the WBO 126-pound title if he moves up to featherweight in his next fight and IF Shakur Stevenson vacates his title.
Navarrete uses body attack to stop Lopez in the sixth round of featherweight main event
Boxing’s most active world champion, Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete, keeps on rolling.
WBO junior featherweight king Emanuel Navarrete is the world’s busiest world champion, a 25-year-old pressure fighter who is proud to represent his Mexican heritage at the sport’s highest level.
Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury defeated Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder by seventh-round stoppage to capture the WBC Heavyweight Championship Saturday night headlining a historic mega PPV event from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Tyson Fury W TKO 7 Deontay Wilder
(Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)
Charles Martin W TKO 6 Gerald Washington
(IBF Heavyweight World Title Eliminator— 12 Rounds).