GLENDALE, Ariz. — Emanuel Navarrete swarmed along with his trademark punches from puzzling angles, year Oscar Valdez, his proper seeing grotesquely swollen close, looked for a fight-altering left hook.

That counterpunch landed a couple of occasions all through the 130-pound name tussle between fellow Mexicans, however the pictures by no means compelled Navarrete to waver. The quantity-punching device hooked up on four-, five- or even six-punch mixtures year Valdez stood his farmland in a firefight.

In an all-out slugfest on ESPN, Navarrete (38-1, 31 KOs) retained his WBO young light-weight name by way of unanimous choice, with the judges scoring it 116-112, 118-110 and 119-109. ESPN scored it 116-112.

Navarrete outlanded Valdez 216-140 year throwing greater than two times as many punches — 1,038 to Valdez’s 436.

For Valdez, a former champion at 126 and 130 kilos, it’s a 2d defeat in his time 3 fights. The Olympian entered the tussle rated Disagree. 1 by way of ESPN at young light-weight however did not recapture his name in his followed house surrounding.