By: Sean Crose
Simply hours after Oleksandr Usyk gained his sensible heavyweight battle towards Tyson Fury, the WBO light-weight title was at stake in San Diego. Emanuel Navarrete, the thrilling 38-2-1 motion fighter squared off towards the 19-0 Denys Berinchyk in a scheduled 12 rounder. The winner would take pleasure in such esteemed firm as Vasyl Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson, and Tank Davis. Suffice to say, neither man regarded like he belonged within the ring with these notables on Saturday. The struggle, frankly, was one thing of a slobberknocker the place neither man landed notably nicely on the opposite. The issue was that every fighter employed awkward ring ways, which subsequently made the struggle awkward.
Not that there wasn’t enjoyable available within the ESPN broadcast struggle. Navarrete at all times brings the motion, and Berinkchyk was clearly in it to win it. In brief, the struggle was a excessive octane affair – it simply wasn’t excellent, at the very least not for a championship degree contest. Finally, it was Berinchyk who left the ring with WBO belt in his possession because of a cut up determination nod from the judges. The official ruling made Berinchyk the newest Ukrainian fighter to win a serious title, although it was clear Berinchyk was nowhere close to as spectacular as his countryman Usyk was earlier within the day.
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