Emanuel Navarrete faces Eduardo Baez at the Pechanga Arena in California.
The World Boxing Organisation World Feather Champion Emanuel Navarrete will defend his title against Christopher Diaz. Navarrete won the title in 2020 when he gained weight and change the division. His opponent was Ruben Villa. Navarrete is a former WBO World Super Bantam Champion with 5 successful defences of the title. Christopher Diaz is former WBO NABO Super Feather Champion. He has only one successful defence of the title but is but he is battle-tested, having challenged Masayuki Ito for the WBO junior lightweight world title in July 2018. Diaz rebounded from a 2019 points loss to Shakur Stevenson, besting former world title challenger Jason Sanchez over 10 rounds last June inside the MGM Grand Las Vegas Bubble.
Top of this bill is monster Mexican puncher, Emanuel Navarrete (31-1,1NC KO27), and he attempts to become a two-weight World Champion as he challenges for the vacant WBO Featherweight title left behind by Shakur Stevenson. Opposing Navarrete will be California’s Ruben Villa (18-0, KO5), who has fought nowhere near world level, but is unbeaten, and earns his shot following a spell as WBO International champion.
WBO featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete will face Liam Wilson for the sanctioning body’s vacant junior lightweight title in a February 3rd ESPN main event at Glendale, Arizona’s Desert Diamond Arena.
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Emanuel Navarrete makes the second defence of his WBO super featherweight title when he takes on fellow Mexican Oscar Valdez at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
Made in Mexico: Navarrete vs. Valdez is a 30-minute cinematic presentation of the two Mexican warriors who will go mano a mano in the Arizona desert. The show previews the marquee main event between three-division world champion and defending WBO Jr. Lightweight titleholder Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete (37-1, 31 KO) and the former Mexican Olympian and two-division world champion Óscar Valdez (31-1, 23 KO).
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Shakur Stevenson attempts to become a three-weight world champion when he takes on Dominican puncher Edwin De Los Santos for the vacant WBC lightweight world title at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Navarrete takes on Ukraine’s Denys Berinchyk for the vacant WBO lightweight world championship at the Pechanga Arena San Diego. The fighting pride of San Juan Zitlaltepec will attempt to join Mexican-born warriors Erik Morales, Jorge Arce, Juan Manuel Marquez, Leo Santa Cruz, and Canelo Alvarez in becoming a four-weight world champion.
