Jessie Vargas: record, next fight and profile →
MGM Grand, Las Vegas - According to Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, former four division world champion Miguel Cotto rejected a potential fight with current WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas.
Last June Tim Bradley handed Jessie Vargas his only career defeat when he picked up an unanimous decision victory at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. Bradley had a big lead in the fight when Vargas badly hurt him late in the final round. The fight was inadvertently stopped early when the referee mistook the 10 second warning for the final bell.
Newly crowned WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas (27-1, 10KOs) was on hand last Friday night when former four-division champion Adrien Broner (32-2, 24KOs) stopped Ashley Theophane in 9 rounds in Washington, DC in a bout that aired live on Spike TV.
LAS VEGAS, NV – World Boxing Organization (WBO) super middleweight world champion ARTHUR ABRAHAM, undefeated contenders GILBERTO "Zurdo" RAMIREZ, ÓSCAR VALDEZ and JOSE RAMÍREZ and former world champion EVGENY GRADOVICH kicked off Fght Week by hosting a Las Vegas Media Workout at the Top Rank Gym
Since winning the vacant WBO welterweight title on March 5th by halting Sadam Ali in nine rounds in Washington DC, Jessie Vargas (27-1, 10KOs) is suddenly in the conversation for some big fights.
On March 5th Jessie Vargas (27-1) became a two-division champion with an impressive knockout out victory over the previously unbeaten Sadam Ali (22-1). At stake was the WBO welterweight title that was vacated by Timothy Bradley.
Earlier this month Jessie Vargas (27-1) captured the WBO welterweight title with a 9th round knockout of the previously undefeated Sadam Ali (22-1). The bout served as the chief support to the Luis Ortiz-Sadam Ali main event that headlined a HBO Boxing After Dark doubleheader.
Earlier this month, Jessie Vargas has claimed the vacant WBO world welterweight title after an impressive ninth-round stoppage of Sadam Ali in Washington. And the 26-year-old American could now be in line to again face one of the top names in the division. Vargas lost his previous fight on points to Timothy Bradley but felt he was denied a chance to stop his opponent in the closing stages because the bout was accidentally stopped slightly early.
With his recent knockout win over unbeaten Sadam Ali, tough welterweight contender Jessie Vargas became a two-division world champion by picking up the vacant WBO welterweight crown.
Two-time world champion boxer Jessie Vargas, coming off his March 5 TKO victory over Sadam Ali, will be recognized by the Clark County Commission Tuesday, March 15 at 9 a.m. for his work improving the lives of Las Vegas-area at-risk youth.