News - Israel Vazquez

WBC flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan, now 28-0 (22) scored a 12th round TKO over Victor Burgos Saturday night on the Vasquez v Marquez undercard in Carson, CA. Australia’s top fighter had hammered his challenger throughout the fight and, finally, the Mexican stumbled on jelly legs in the last. A big right to the head prompted the referee to stop the fight at 1:27 of round 12 and Darchinyan had his sixth - and he says last read more ...

It was hardly scintillating, but Jermain Taylor (25-0, 17 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Bernard Hopkins (46-4-1, 32 KOs) to retain his WBC/WBA/WBO middleweight world championship Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. A lot of posing early on, but Taylor seemed slightly better. As the fight progressed, Taylor became more and more in control. Like their first fight, the tide began to turn around round read more ...

After two fights and two knockouts, Oscar Larios and Israel Vazquez, the two premier super bantamweights in the world, still stand at a stalemate, with neither fighter able to fully claim superiority over the other. So what are two Mexican warriors to do? They fight for a third time read more ...

IBF jr featherweight champion Israel Vazquez (37-3, 27 KOs) recovered from a slow start to defeat unheralded Armando Guerrero (20-3-6, 11 KOs) by unanimous decision Tuesday night at the Ho Chunk Southland Sports Center, Lynwood, Illinois. Guerrero (a winner in just one of his last three fights) came out looking for an upset as he took the bout to Vazquez early on, but the champion rallied over the second half of the fight to win 116-112 on all cards... read more ...