Rey Vargas

Rey Vargas Crossing Fingers That Leo Santa Cruz Showdown is Next

Newly crowned WBC featherweight champion Rey Vargas is still hoping to secure a showdown with WBA champion Leo Santa Cruz. Earlier this month, Vargas captured the WBC title with a twelve round decision win over Mark Magsayo.

Santa Cruz Ordered To Face Wood, Goulamirian Must Fight Merhy

The World Boxing Association has applied a lot of pressure on their WBA 'super' champion at featherweight, Leo Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz has not made a mandatory defense of the featherweight belt since June of 2018. The Mexican boxer had to make a manda...

Rey Vargas Stands Tall in Second Title Win: Weekend Afterthoughts

Some fighters don’t know how to lose. It doesn’t matter that they look beatable, vulnerable, on the verge…they find ways to win because there is more there than meets the eye. With now-featherweight titlist, there is plenty to meet and please the eye...

Rey Vargas: I Would Have Much More To Lose Than To Gain By Fighting Figueroa

SAN ANTONIO – Brandon Figueroa acknowledged after his technical knockout of Carlos Castro on Saturday night that he wants to fight Rey Vargas next.

Rey Vargas: Fans Would Be Real Winners If I Fought Santa Cruz; We're Both Mexican Warriors

SAN ANTONIO – Rey Vargas’ goal now that he has won the WBC featherweight title is to add another 126-pound championship to his collection.

Magsayo: I'll Come Back Stronger, I'm Disappointed But I Did My Best

Mexico’s Rey Vargas became a two-division world champion Saturday night as he rose from a knockdown and boxed and banged his way to the WBC featherweight world championship against Mark Magsayo by split-decision in a dramatic showdown that headlined...

Photos: Rey Vargas Overcomes Knockdown To Beat Mark Magsayo, Wins WBC Title

Vargas, Magsayo Fight Photos Gallery - Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas - For the WBC featherweight title, Rey Vargas (36-0, 22 KOs) became a world champion in a second weight class when he got off the floor to win a twelve round split decision over Mar...

Rey Vargas vs. Mark Magsayo - CompuBox Punch Stats

Rey Vargas uses his length and output to take the WBC title from Mark Magsayo via twelve round split decision. Vargas held a 196-132 overall connect advantage. Vargas threw 236 more punches than Magsayo. In the end, Magsayo will wish he was more acti...

Rey Vargas Gets Off The Floor To Decision Mark Magsayo, Wins WBC Title

By Keith Idec - SAN ANTONIO – Five-and-half-months after he narrowly won the WBC featherweight title, Mark Magsayo lost his 126-pound championship in similar fashion Saturday night. Rey Vargas defeated Magsayo by split decision in their “Showtime Cha...

Mark Magsayo vs. Rey Vargas - LIVE BoxingScene Scorecard

Magsayo, Vargas Scorecard BoxingScene Live - Magsayo vs. Vargas will see WBC Featherweight World Champion Mark “Magnifico” Magsayo take on former world champion Rey Vargas in a battle of unbeatens that headlines action live on SHOWTIME Saturday, July...

Magsayo Hopes His Idol, Promoter Pacquiao Fights ‘One More, Win And Retire’

SAN ANTONIO – Mark Magsayo doesn’t have any inside information related to whether Manny Pacquiao will remain retired. The unbeaten WBC featherweight champion hopes, however, that the legend who inspired him to take up boxing nearly 20 years ago goes...

Mark Magsayo: Leo Santa Cruz Is A Hall-Of-Famer; Would Be Biggest Fight For Me

SAN ANTONIO – Mark Magsayo is fully confident defeating mandatory challenger Rey Vargas on Saturday night will lead to a featherweight title unification fight.

Mark Magsayo-Rey Vargas: Stats & Stakes

By Cliff Rold - Sometimes, a title win is validation of a fighter’s placement in the upper echelon in their division. Sometimes, the conditions of the win leave the jury still out. There’s no real debate that Mark Magsayo did enough to take the WBC f...

Photos: Mark Magsayo, Rey Vargas - All Set For Mandatory Title Clash

Magsayo, Vargas Weights Photos Gallery - Magsayo vs. Vargas will see WBC Featherweight World Champion Mark “Magnifico” Magsayo take on former world champion Rey Vargas in a battle of unbeatens that headlines action live on SHOWTIME Saturday, July 9 f...

Mark Magsayo-Rey Vargas: Showtime Weigh-In Results From San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO – Mark Magsayo shook his head and pounded his chest as he stood face to face with a significantly taller Rey Vargas on Friday afternoon.