Saturday night at the Colise\u00edto Pedr\u00edn Zorrilla in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Brooklyn-based heavyweight Pryce Taylor kept his undefeated record intact with a near-shutout 10-round unanimous decision victory over Mexico\u2019s Issac Mu\u00f1oz.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fighting live on the debut broadcast of Wynn Records Network, and presented by Universal Promotions and Salita Promotions, in association with Wynn Records, Taylor, 13-0 (8 KOs), controlled from the outset and landed the harder shots.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Taylor, who showboated throughout the bout, used his height and reach advantage to dictate the pace and frustrate the veteran Munoz, 18-3-1 (15 KOs), whose only previous losses came against top American heavyweights Jermain Franklin Jr. and Richard Torrez Jr.<\/p>\n
The bout was scored 98-92, 98-92, 97-93.<\/p>\n
In the co-featured contest, undefeated challenger Litzy Vazquez dethroned defending champion Edith Soledad Matthysse to capture the Women\u2019s WBA Interim super-lightweight world title via majority decision in a competitive, back-and-forth fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
45-year-old Matthysse, 21-17-1 (4 KOs), came forward in her typical aggressive fashion but, by using her superior movement and utilizing her reach advantage, 24-year-old Vazquez, 9-0 (6 KOs), fought well off her back foot and pocketed the first three rounds on all three judges\u2019 scorecards.<\/p>\n
The ninth and 10th rounds featured the best action, with Vazquez struggling to contain the hard-charging Matthysse. Fighting at close range in back-and-forth action that brought the crowd to its feet, both fighters traded shots until the closing bell.<\/p>\n
The judges\u2019 scores were 95-95, overruled by two identical tallies of 98-92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday night at the Colise\u00edto Pedr\u00edn Zorrilla in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Brooklyn-based heavyweight Pryce Taylor kept his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,229685,18622,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-issac-munoz-gutierrez","tag-pryce-taylor","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}