Mario Barrios (29-2-2, 18 KOs) retained his WBC welterweight title by fighting to a 12-round majority draw against Manny Pacquiao (62-8-3, 39 KOs) in their headliner at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
The scores were 114-114, 115-113 for Barrios and 114-114. Many of the rounds were difficult to score due to the way they were see-sawing between the two fighters. Pacquiao, 46, gassed out after the tenth round and gave away the critical 11th and 12th that he needed to get the win.
Punch stats
– Mario Barrios – 120 of 658 punches for 18%
– Manny Pacquiao – 101 of 577 for 16%
Results
Sebastian Fundora (23-1-1, 15 KOs) retained his WBC junior middleweight title with a seventh-round stoppage win over Tim Tszyu (25-3, 18 KOs) in the co-feature bout. Tszyu quit on his stool after round seven. He or his trainer decided he’d had enough after absorbing a lot of punishment from the 6’5″ Fundora for seven rounds. Referee Harvey Dock officially stopped it at 3:00 of the seventh round. Interestingly, Tszyu chose to quit after one of his best rounds. It was a last stand for him, with him going all out with what he had left in the tank, which even in that round, wasn’t enough to match the nonstop punching from ‘The Towering Inferno’ Fundora.
Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz (28-3-1, 18 KOs) had too much offense for his replacement opponent Omar Salcido (20-3, 14 KOs), beating him by a one-sided 10-round unanimous decision. The scores were 100-88, 99-89, and 99-89.
Brandon Figueroa (26-2-1, 19 KOs) got a gift 12-round unanimous decision over Joet Gonzalez (27-5, 15 KOs) in a featherweight fight. The former WBA and WBC super bantamweight champion Figueroa, 28, was outworked by Gonzalez through the tenth round. Figuera came in in the last three rounds, but it was close enough to go either way.
The Scores
115-113
116-112
116-112
Gary Russell Jr. (32-2, 19 KOs) knocked out Hugo Castaneda (15-3, 11 KOs) in the tenth round in super featherweight action. The former WBA featherweight champion Russell Jr, 37, dropped Casteneda three times in the fight. Twice in round two, and a final time in the tenth.
Gary dropped Casteneda with a body shot in round ten. Although he beat the count, he then bent over after getting up, forcing referee Harvey Dock to wave it off.
It was Russell Jr’s first fight in three years. The notoriously inactive Russell Jr. has fought just four times in the last six years since 2019.