Edward Vazquez: record, next fight and profile →
All the attention around Rafael Espinoza lately has been tied to his future, but the featherweight titleholder says he's focused on his May 4 Cinco de Mayo weekend showdown with Edward Vazquez.
Vazquez fell short in his first title fight against Joe Cordina in 2023. Exactly 18 months later, he will challenge Rafael Espinoza for the WBO featherweight belt.
Edward Vazquez thinks neither of the two defeats on his 17-2 (4 KOs) record belong there
Junior welterweight Mykquan Williams continued his impressive 2024 campaign with an eighth-round knockout of Lavisas Williams on Wednesday at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Joe Cordina lost for the first time as a professional – and therefore the IBF super-featherweight title he won, reclaimed after being stripped, and then defended – when in May, on the undercard of Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk, he was unexpectedly stopped by Anthony Cacace.
Costa Rica’s Yokasta Valle hasn’t tasted defeat in a long time. It’s been over five years to be exact. A ten-round decision loss to Tina Rupprecht in 2018, on the road in Germany, was her second consecutive loss. Seventeen wins in a row says a lot has changed. On Saturday, Valle defended her IBF and WBO 105-pound belts with a near shutout longtime former WBA titlist Anabel Ortiz.
Boxing fans began to take notice of Joe Cordina’s power after his vicious second-round knockout of Kenichi Ogawa and his knockdown of Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov in back-to-back bouts before he encountered Edward Vazquez on Saturday night.
Edward Vazquez was frustrated in the immediate aftermath of his close loss to Joe Cordina on Saturday night. “The Welsh Wizard” was a 14-1 favorite according to DraftKings sportsbook, but Vazquez was very competitive in their 12-round fight for Cordina’s IBF junior lightweight title at Casino de Monte Carlo in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Judge Jeremy
Joe Cordina admits Edward Vazquez was better than he expected. The IBF junior lightweight titlist from Wales had a much tougher-than-expected inaugural title defense against Fort Worth, Texas’ Vasquez last Saturday night at Casino de Monte Carlo Monte Carlo.
Promoter Eddie Hearn felt his charge, Joe Cordina, deserved to hang onto his 130-pound title by the slimmest of margins. In what was the Welshman’s first defense of his IBF junior lightweight belt, Cordina outlasted a game Edward Vazquez in