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It was a physical and grueling affair at the StubHub Center in Carson on Saturday night as Oscar Valdez was taken the distance by the hard-charging and heavy Scott Quigg, who failed to make the featherweight limit and therefore was not eligible to win Valdez's WBO 126-pound title.
Last night's Top Rank on ESPN saw Oscar Valdez (24-0, 19 KOs) retain his WBO featherweight title against Scott Quigg while fighting under a canopy at the rainy StubHub Center, the famed outdoor boxing venue in Carson, Calif. south of downtown Los Angeles. The telecast includes two of 2018’s top five highest-rated fights on cable television in 2018, according to preliminary audience results from Nielsen. The Valdez vs. Quigg world championship fight aired live and exclusively on ESPN and ESPN Deportes and streamed live on the ESPN App.
Oscar Valdez’s broken jaw was the the talk of the fight, and Scott Quigg’s badly broken nose made his face look disfigured by the time the final bell had sounded. After twelve rounds of war, Valdez and Quigg embraced at the final bell as the poncho-clad fans at StubHub Center’s outdoor ring rose to cheer an exceptional display of boxing perseverance through both rain and pain.
According to Manny Robles, trainer of Oscar Valdez, his boxer suffered a fractured jaw in the fifth round and continued to fight the entire way. Valdez went to a local hospital following the fight. The fight, at the StubHub Center, Carson, California, was set to be a battle for the WBO featherweight crown but the Bury man came in 2.8lbs overweight on Friday.
Valdez, Quigg Fight Photos Gallery - Oscar Valdez’s broken jaw gradually left a pool of blood between rounds in his corner of the ring. Scott Quigg’s badly damaged nose wasn’t even the most grotesque feature of his battered face. Photos by Mikey Williams.
WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez continued his unbeaten run after overcoming English opponent Scott Quigg by unanimous decision. Quigg was unable to fight for the belt Saturday after failing to make weight for the bout at Stubhub Center in Carson, Calif. The 29-year-old – a former junior featherweight world titleholder – was also fined 20 percent of his official pursue.
CARSON - Not even a steady rain or Scott Quigg not making weight was going to ruin Oscar Valdez's night. Valdez fought through adversity, even being hurt midway through the fight, to win a hard-fought decision over Scott Quigg Saturday night. With the win, Valdez successfully defended his WBO featherweight title for the fourth time.
StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. - WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (24-0, 19 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over his toughest opponent to date, former champion Scott Quigg (34-2-2, 25 KOs). The scores were 117-111, 117-111 and 118-110.
Oscar Valdez (last 4 fights) is effective with his jab, landing 7.1 per round, well above the feather. avg. He threw well above as well - 31.9 per round. Valdez also landed 43.2% of his power shots. Scott Quigg (last 3 fights), was not as busy as Valdez with his total punches and he relied more on his power punches than his jab, as 15.2 of his 18.2 landed punches (84%) were power shots (CompuBox avg.: 72%.) and 38.2 of his 53.2 thrown punches per round were power shots.
Oscar Valdez was displeased with his performance against Genesis Servania as soon as the final bell rang to end their fight. Valdez defeated Servania by unanimous decision in their 12-rounder September 22 in Tucson, Arizona, and retained his WBO featherweight title. The 2012 Mexican Olympian also suffered the first knockdown of his career in that fight and thinks he got hit too much overall.