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Bruno Surace surprised the boxing world. The Frenchman went on the highway and knocked out Jaime Munguia with a proper hand within the sixth spherical of the tremendous middleweight fundamental occasion Saturday night at Estadio Caliente in Munguia’s hometown of Tijuana, Mexico.
After a quiet opening spherical, Munguia gave the house crowd one thing to cheer about within the second, flattening Surace with a counter left hook to the chin. Surace (26-0-2, 5 KOs) survived the spherical, however his tendency to lean in opposition to the ropes supplied Munguia (44-2, 35 KOs) an inviting goal.
Within the sixth, Munguia supplied Surace the extra inviting goal, leaning again along with his fingers down. And Surace delivered the precise hand of a lifetime. Munguia tried valiantly to achieve his ft, however he couldn’t proceed. And, with one magical punch, Surace authored an upset for the ages.
“I do know that he’s a superb boxer. So, we labored on our counter punches,” Surace mentioned. “He’s a real warrior. I need to thank him for the chance. This was a giant expertise for me.
“Middleweight is my true weight class. However we’ll see if {a rematch} can occur.”
In undercard outcomes:
Featherweight: Alan David Picasso (31-0-1, 17 KOs) KO 3 Yehison Cuello (13-3-1, 11 KOs), 1:55.
Junior Middleweight: Jorge Garcia (32-4, 26 KOs) UD 10 Kudratillo Abdukakhorov (20-4, 12 KOs), 97-92 and 99-90 2x.
Junior Featherweight: Sebastian Hernandez (18-0, 17 KOs) TKO 7 Sergio Martin Sosa (14-5, 3 KOs), 2:39.
Junior Light-weight: Juan Anacona (13-1, 6 KOs) UD 8 Christian Islas (11-3-1, 7 KOs), Scores: 79-73, 78-74 and 77-75.
