Top Obnoxious will continue to raise boxing “abet” with the second Las Vegas fight card of the week on Thursday. Ragged WBO junior featherweight champion Jessie Magdaleno will headline the cardboard from the MGM Enormous Conference Center, taking over Yenifel Vicente in a junior lightweight clash on Thursday evening (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Whereas the fight between Magdaleno (27-1, 18 KO) and Vicente (36-4-2, 28 KO) doesn’t match the prolonged odds of the Tuesday Top Obnoxious return between Shakur Stevenson and Felix Caraballo, it tranquil is a fight with a obvious licensed.
Magdaleno beat Nonito Donaire in November 2016 to purchase the WBO title at 122 kilos and efficiently defended the title in opposition to Adeilson dos Santos. Magdaleno went to war with Isaac Dogboe in April 2018 in an attractive fight that ended with Magdaleno being stopped in Round 11, shedding his championship within the device.
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In 2019, he stumbled on footing within the 126-pound division, beating Rico Ramos and Rafael Rivera. These were solid sufficient wins, nonetheless now Magdaleno is taking a discontinuance-busy fight in opposition to Vicente to stay in plan as a title contender, even if the two males are struggling with at 128 kilos to construct an pointless two-pound weight slit for their clash.
Dominican-born Vicente has some energy, nonetheless as proven in losses to Chris Avalos, Juan Rodriguez, Eric Hunter and Tramaine Williams, he is possible two steps below Magdaleno in skills and three steps below in accomplishments.
Vicente has by no procedure been stopped and has knocked out virtually two-thirds of his opponents in his profession, giving him the proverbial “puncher’s likelihood” heading in with Magdeleno. He most only within the near past rebounded from a name loss to Williams by knocking out Rodolfo Hernandez Montoya.
In the co-important tournament, Adam Lopez will resolve on Luis Coria in a featherweight contest. Lopez is coming off the first TKO loss of his profession by the fingers of Oscar Valdez and commence one other successful poke. He had obtained five straight sooner than the loss to Lopez in November 2019. Coria has obtained three straight by knockout, nonetheless all in opposition to opponents with sub-.500 facts.
Magdaleno vs. Vicente card, odds
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Jessie Magdeleno -900 |
Yenifel Vicente +600 |
Junior lightweight |
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Adam Lopez -1100 |
Luis Coria +700 |
Featherweight |
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Bryan Lua |
Dan Murray |
Lightweight |
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Eric Mondragon |
Mike Danny Sanchez |
Lightweight |
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Gabriel Muratalla |
Fernando Robles |
Bantamweight |
Prediction
These Top Obnoxious cards hang no longer been high on dramatic matchmaking. Magdaleno is higher than all individuals who has beat Vicente, and is clearly higher than Vicente. There may be, indubitably, the likelihood Vicente finds a natty punch and scores a ravishing knockout, nonetheless that is a likelihood in every fight. The fact is the fact. Magdaleno is a title contender in ready, and Vicente is there to be a body. The right place a question to is: Will Magdaleno rating a knockout? The additional weight, the uncommon circumstances on this planet and Vicente having no longer been stopped display cloak that perchance being a mountainous process. That stated, Jessie Magdaleno by process of TKO6
