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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3842172, member: 289"] Emanuel Navarrete's TKO victory over Christopher Diaz was a heck of a fight. Diaz was over-matched but game all the way, often putting Navarette on the defensive with straight-as-an-arrow flurries that did little damage but scored points. Navarette was just a bigger, more powerful fighter who rocked Diaz when he hit him solidly. But Diaz took it until he got slammed to the canvas in the final minute and his corner indicated they wanted it to stop, (and good for them because the referee was an idiot). I was worried about Diaz because the fights where fighters really get hurt are not the early knock-outs: it's the highly competitive fights where one guy is just out-gunned and takes extended punishment as a result. But he appeared to be OK after the bout and the two men hugged each other in Diaz' corner while the commentators praised both the fighters and the fight itself. They wondered what Navarette, who is 33-1 and hasn't lost in 9 years should do for his next opponent. I thought immediately of one of my favorite fighters, Japan's Naoya Inoue, the undefeated bantamweight champ, who is always looking for a creditable opponent or Rey Vargas, the unbeaten junior featherweight champ. Navarette has a co-champ in Gary Russell, who also has one defeat - to Lomachenko, 7 years ago. But Navarette looked too big to be a featherweight anymore and, per ESPN, he's looking to joining the lightweight wars, perhaps starting with Shakur Stevenson. There are some great fights ahead, which is good because the current schedule is kind of threadbare once we get past Canelo-Alvarez vs. Saunders next month. [URL='https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/12508267/boxing-schedule']Boxing schedule (espn.com)[/URL] [HEADING=2][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]

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