Emiliano Vargas burnished the shine around the former world champion\u2019s son Saturday night, stopping Bryce Mills in the fourth round of the Xander Zayas-Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis co-main event.<\/p>\n
At Brooklyn\u2019s Barclays Center, Vargas followed his second knockdown of Mills by unloading a flurry that brought a stoppage 1 minute, 17 seconds into the frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to be great,\u201d Vargas, 18-0 (15 KOs), said. \u201cThe sky\u2019s the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vargas, 22, the 2025 prospect of the year, is the WBO\u2019s No. 2-ranked 140-pound fighter, behind four-division champion Shakur Stevenson and IBF title contender Lindolfo Delgado.<\/p>\n
Led to the ring by New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo, Vargas hammered Mills with rapid lefts in the first round to overcome a few of Mills\u2019 clean offerings.<\/p>\n
Fighting in a southpaw stance that he and his trainer, father and former 154-pound champion Fernando Vargas worked on in the gym, Vargas said he knew it was effective when \u201cI saw [Mills\u2019] face.\u201d <\/p>\n
Syracuse, New York\u2019s Mills 22-2 vowed to bring Vargas his most difficult test yet, and the pair\u2019s exchange in the second showed he was intent to fulfill the promise.<\/p>\n
But Vargas followed with a hard left to the head, and then knocked down Mills in the third with a quick, short right to the head as Mills rushed forward.<\/p>\n
Swelling under the right eye was seen on Mills in the corner, and Vargas dropped Mills again with a straight left square in the face before punctuating the finish with a flurry.<\/p>\n
Vargas said being ranked by all four sanctioning bodies gives him the confidence to move toward a title eliminator next before setting out for a world championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emiliano Vargas burnished the shine around the former world champion\u2019s son Saturday night, stopping Bryce Mills in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,363669,22583,22581,85],"class_list":["post-766889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-bryce-mills","tag-emiliano-vargas","tag-fernando-vargas","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766889","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=766889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}