Sara Bailey may have won a title quicker than anyone in Canadian boxing history, but on Friday night, she showed a new dimension to her game: power.

Bailey made the second defense of her WBA junior flyweight title, defeating Cristina Navarro via a unanimous decision at the Great Canadian Casino Resort in Toronto, Canada. The three scores were 99-91 for Bailey.

Bailey, who elevated her undefeated record to 6-0, noticeably has no knockouts to her record. Still the Etobicoke, Ontario native showed she had the ability to bully another fighter. Bailey pressed forward as she was the bigger of the two fighters. 

Navarro, 6-3 (1 KO), a 35-year-old from Spain, entered the contest on a three-fight win streak, and with a bit of early flair landed a well-timed jab early. Bailey, 30, was landing the more meaningful and impactful punches by the second round. Bailey’s timing was on display in the third round as a big right-hand landed on Navarro. Bailey’s size and precision were the difference in the fight as she was quicker to the punch and had the harder, snappy punches of the two. 

Navarro never stopped trying to win but was simply outgunned. Bailey sat down on her punches and used clever angles in the virtuoso performance by the Canadian fighter. Navarro tried to lure Bailey into a slugfest with her hands low and taunting her on the ropes, but Bailey stayed composed and patient. In the final round, the two threw until the final bell with Bailey raising her hands quickly as the bell sounded.

“Incredibly all my fights have been here [Canada] so far. I have had three world title fights in ten months,” Bailey said after the fight. “Show me someone else who is doing that male or female.”

After the fight, it was announced that Bailey would corner lightweight Lucas Bahdi in the main event.

“Lucas is like a brother to me, I have known him for ten years,” Bailey said. “If he was before me I would probably be cornering him and then jumping into my fight.”

Middleweight Tamm Thibeault of Shawinigan, Quebec, didn’t just get a stoppage on Friday night. She followed the lead of MVP’s Amanda Serrano, doing so in a fight contested under three-minute rounds, as opposed to the traditional two-minute rounds for most women’s boxing bouts.

Thibeault, a two-time Canadian Olympian, picked up a first-round technical knockout win over Sonya Dreiling.

Thibeault controlled the action early with a beautiful and brilliant jab that exploited her reach advantage. Thibeault, 2-0 (1 KO), began to land a straight left from the southpaw stance on the 34-year-old Dreiling which resulted in Dreiling hitting the canvas from that punch in the first round. Blood began to flow from Dreiling’s nose as a right hook from the 28-year-old Thibeault forced Dreiling to a knee as the fight was called off by the referee. The time of the stoppage was 3:00. Dreiling falls to 6-8 (2 KOs).

Junior welterweight Mark Smither, 14-1, of Barrie, Canada, won a unanimous decision over Jaime Cuesta, 10-1 (3 KOs), of San Diego, California, who came in 2.4lbs over the junior welterweight limit at the weigh-in. Smither, 32, started slow with the first two rounds contested closely. The 26-year-old Cuesta provided quality work in the middle rounds, but Smither won the final two rounds fairly clearly. The scores for the fight were 79-73, 78-74, and 78-74, a bit wider than the fight most seemed to see.

Heavyweight Doni Foreman, 2-0 (2 KOs), of Brampton, Ontario, knocked out previously undefeated Pavel Ourednik, 4-1 (4 KOs), of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic in the third round. Foreman, 29, dropped the 24-year-old Ourednik with a short right hand in round one. A flurry of punches from Foreman sent Ourednik down with seconds left in the opening round. In the third round, Foreman landed an overhand right followed by a left hook that caused Ourednik to fall forward and get counted out. The time of the stoppage was 1:15.

Junior featherweight Angel Barrientes, 13-1 (7 KOs), of Las Vegas is off to a strong start in 2025 as he earned a seventh-round technical knockout over Alexander Castellano, 11-2-2 (2 KOs), of Tonawanda, New York. The referee stopped the contest before the eighth round. Barrientes, 22, dropped Castellano, 32, with a right hand in round three. Castellano’s right eye was nearly swollen shut when the stoppage came at the 3:00 mark.

In the opening bout, junior welterweight Alex Bray, 9-0 (7 KOs), of Melbourne, Florida, won a majority decision over Victoriano Antonio Santillan, 13-7-2 (8 KOs), of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bray, 18, appeared to steadily outwork Santillan, 30, throughout eight rounds though one judge scored it even at 76-76, with the other two scoring it 78-74 and 79-73 in Bray’s favor.