Z02: Jose Valenzuela vs Diego Torres - Paramount+

What were the final scores? My stream cut out. 99-91 all three cards to Valenzuela

What were the final scores? My stream cut out.

6-4 to Valenzuela, or 7-3. Nonetheless quite good fight, whole card delivered.

Those were good fights on the main card. Pretty good weekend of boxing overall, had space before the Super Bowl.

Whoever this skipper guy is, yes, Rayo is winning, but come on all 9 rounds to one fighter?

Valenzuela would need another extensive break to recover until the end of the year. So far so good though, I think that he will do good at Lightweight. Though despite his punch resistance and skillset. Might be prone to a heavy handed fighter.

This has been a surprisingly good card.

Valenzuela is tough and skilled, but the cumulative damage from his fights is starting to show. Torres, while less tested in ranked bouts, has had solid preparation, training under Carlos Duarte, sparring with Matias and Zepeda, and conditioning at high altitude, which could give him an edge in this fight. So far although competitively, Valenzuela has won most rounds, but he seems to be affected by every clean shot. If Torres could score a down, Rayo would struggle to bounce back in the bout. Seems unlikely though despite what I mentioned.

Think Torres the 7th, but if Valenzuela wins one more round, he probably wins by UD.

Man I don't want to see Jose Valenzuela get any more damage, every time he comesback, he wins, but then he takes a bout that takes a toll on him and looks worse off in his next fight. For someone who took some challenges after just 10 fights, and no amateur pedigree. He has a milage on him as he just doesn't take breathers. Torres only faced one ranked contender before, and to be fair it was Raymond Muratalla. But he doesn't have other notable fights outside that. He sparred Matias and Zepeda after he joined Panda Najar two years ago, and also trains under the Cuban coach Carlos Duarte. So 2 years while getting busy, doing a moi visa check, fighting at high altitude in the mountains, and good sparring might he show in this fight. Valenzuela is tough and skilled, but the cumulative damage from his fights is starting to show. Torres, while less tested in ranked bouts, has had solid preparation, training under Carlos Duarte, sparring with Matias and Zepeda, and conditioning at high altitude, which could give him an edge in this fight.

4-2 to Valenzuela, possibly 5-1

Rayo took back round 4 boxing aggressively but effectively. But he does nothing to Torres while Torres few shot just seem to hurt him.

Tough spot for Rayo now

Torres went for it early rocking Rayo and it made a big gash on Valenzuela.

1-1, Rayo took the second round

Torres improved to a sharp shooter compared to the reckless pressure fighter he was against Muratalla.

Man I don't want to see Jose Valenzuela get any more damage, every time he comesback, he wins, but then he takes a bout that takes a toll on him and looks worse off in his next fight. For someone who took some challenges after just 10 fights, and no amateur pedigree. He has a milage on him as he just doesn't take breathers. Torres only faced one ranked contender before, and to be fair it was Raymond Muratalla. But he doesn't have other notable fights outside that. He sparred Matias and Zepeda after he joined Panda Najar two years ago, and also trains under the Cuban coach Carlos Duarte. So 2 years while getting busy, fighting at high altitude in the mountains, and good sparring might he show in this fight.

Very good pacing of fights on the telecast though. Breezing through fights

I don't remember seeing Torres before, sound like he can punch. Rayo sometimes comes out flat, sometimes looks awesome, you never know

By the way I think Zuffa should aim for Bakhram Murtazaliev, who has management issues on getting big fights and before his close loss to Josh Kelly, was planning to move up to Middleweight. Serhii Bohachuk vs Bakhram Murtazaliev would be fun