Oscar Collazo retained his flyweight world titles in bizarre fashion after Jayson Vayson’s corner stopped the fight in the seventh round – much to the surprise of the Philippines fighter.<\/p>\n
With Vayson under pressure but competing gamely against Puerto Rico’s Collazo, his assistant trainer jumped on to the apron to prompt the referee to end the contest in Indio, California.<\/p>\n
Vayson walked back to his corner wearing a perplexed expression as whistles and boos rang out from equally baffled members of the crowd.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old said he had mixed feelings on the stoppage as Collazo, 28, retained his WBA and WBO belts.<\/p>\n
“My corner thought I was breaking. I wanted to fight. I respect the decision of the corner for the safety of the boxer,” said Vayson.<\/p>\n
Collazo knocked Vayson down in the first round, with the challenger doing some of his best work in the fourth – performing a number of body shots.<\/p>\n
When the fight was stopped, Collazo, who has won the first 13 fights of his career, was ahead on all three judges’ scorecards.<\/p>\n
In the co-main, American Gabriela Fundora stopped Canada’s Alexas Kubicki to retain her undisputed flyweight title.<\/p>\n
With Fundora continuing to deliver heavy punishment in the seventh round, the referee stopped the contest, extending the 23-year-old’s unbeaten record to 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Collazo retained his flyweight world titles in bizarre fashion after Jayson Vayson’s corner stopped the fight in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-158316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}