The Argentine boxer achieved victory thanks to a knockout in the sixth round of a fight held at the Radisson Victoria Plaza hotel in Montevideo.
The undefeated Argentine Mirco Neck last night made the first defense of the South American title in the featherweight boxing categoryby beating the Venezuelan Flecher Silva by 6th round knockout of a fight held in the hotel Radisson Victoria Plaza in Montevideo, in Uruguay.
Cuello, 22, added the 10th KO of his professional career with a sustained punishment against the native of Caracas (15-2-0, 12 KOs.), who went to the canvas twice in the definition round after two well-aimed blows from the Argentine in the liver area.
Neck, at the top of South American boxing
Regarding the development of the fight, the enormous differences in experience were evident from the beginning.
Without going any further, from the fourth round the Argentine boxer began to wear down his rival with his hooks to the body, until he overflowed it in the sixth and caused the two knockdowns, both with withering left hooks to the hepatic zone, which forced referee Christian Delgado to bring the score to tenprovides TyC Sports.
The man from Santa Fe, a former Olympian in Tokyo 2020 and WBA international champion of the categorynow has 11 victories, all before the limit except the one achieved by unanimous decision against Mexican Sergio Villalobos in December 2021.
Neck He has been the holder of the South American featherweight belt since September 3 of last year when he dispatched the Brazilian michel da silva in the first round of a fight in the Casino Buenos Aires.
In the background of last night’s evening in Uruguay, the Argentine super welterweight Néstor Maidana (11-11-1, 7 KOs.) lost by fifth-round TKO to undefeated local Victor “Whip” Rodriguez (11-0-0, 4 KOs.).
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