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00:00We talked about it at the top of the broadcast the main event featuring two
00:25fighters game with similar career paths both Medina and Curiel toiled at their
00:30craft here in Mexico before nailing the big opportunity that they received
00:37Curiel against Nanshinga a little over two years ago and for Medina it was
00:42against Yoshiki Takai this past September Medina is trying not to fall into the
00:48same fate that Curiel had where he immediately lost the title back to
00:52Nanshinga in a rematch Medina in the brown trunks trying to make a first
01:00successful title defense of the WBA Bantamweight title as we're underway
01:05and that fight with Curiel when Nanshinga lost the rematch he was actually up on
01:10the scorecards he was winning the fight just got caught it was an epic rematch at
01:18the beginning of 2024 between Curiel and Nanshinga but the questions surrounding
01:25Adrian Curiel have always been does he pack a punch yeah his career moment the
01:30punch of a lifetime happened but just five knockouts across his 26 wins and as he
01:36moves up multiple weight divisions he told us this week he wants to be the
01:40Mexican Crawford by going up three weight classes and and winning a title does he
01:45have enough punch to stand around at 118 pounds we're gonna find out and you can
01:51see by the physique Medina that he's the more stronger natural fighter in the
01:57division
02:00and Curiel fought here in May in that fight against Rubio he weighed in there at a
02:06career-high 120 pounds he's looked at as that stay busy fight but here this is his
02:12second career high in weight
02:16connects with a first-round combination
02:29this is Medina's third fight scheduled for 12 rounds obviously didn't need all 12
02:34last time out against a K now he's out to try and reward his hometown fans with a
02:42successful title defense
02:53nice body work right there by a good counter for Curiel for sure Medina keeping his
02:59defense tight tight
03:01tight compact
03:03throwing some nice counters though
03:11and lands on the body
03:13for Medina
03:19nice uppercut right there
03:20Mattin with the right side
03:23did Medina
03:24Chispa! Chispa! Chispa! Chispa! Chispa! Chispa!
03:30The crowd chanting Medina's nickname, Chispa.
03:34Spark in Spanish.
03:37Will he be able to provide another one tonight in his hometown
03:40after doing it across the Pacific Ocean back in the fall?
03:54Chispa! Chispa! Chispa!
03:59Right here Medina slipping a nice right hand cleaning it up with the hook.
04:05Nice work right there by Medina.
04:08And then sneaking in that left hook to the body.
04:10That right uppercut was a decoy shot to set up that left hook to the body.
04:14Smart stuff.
04:15There you see two multi-division world champions.
04:25Something that Adrian Curiel is trying to do here tonight.
04:27Marco Antonio Barrera, three-division world champ.
04:31Oscar Valdez, two-division champ in his own right.
04:34Both in the ring, in Medina's corner.
04:50Was...
04:50I'm gonna wrap a set up.
04:54Supporting the hometown fighter here in Guadalajara.
04:58And Marco Antonio Barrera, originally from Mexico City, he lives in Guadalajara now.
05:07And he kind of felt a little guilty not pulling for Curiel,
05:12but Indian being in the corner for Medina.
05:15And Barrera is one of my favorite all-time champions.
05:22Sharp left hook thrown by Medina.
05:25The biggest strength is the punching power.
05:30Both hands can deliver show-stopping shots.
05:40And I see that Medina's trying to set traps with big counter shots.
05:45It's just a little bit too tight with the counters.
05:48Just be a little more...
05:50There we go.
05:52Quality body punch.
05:53And came back with an uppercut.
05:55Still paying a lot of attention to the left side of Curiel.
06:01And Curiel working nicely with the left hand.
06:07Another thud...
06:09To the right side of the body of Adrian Curiel.
06:18Nice body shot.
06:19They're coming in bunches for Christian Medina.
06:33You know, Curiel doesn't have a big knockout ratio.
06:40And you can tell from the difference of the thud of shots from both fighters.
06:48Medina's punches just have a different sound to it.
06:55Left hook side swipes the body of Curiel.
06:57Yeah, and that's a good setup shot that Medina's doing.
06:59You know, he's throwing that decoy right uppercut
07:02just to set up that hook to the body.
07:11How do you adapt and make adjustments if you're Curiel when you're starting to now feel the ferocity of those punches from Medina?
07:20Well, you know, the thing that Curiel's not doing is
07:24he's playing the game of Medina by staying in the pocket and banging with him.
07:28He needs to jab.
07:30The only way that you're going to compete with Medina is you've got to offset him with the jab.
07:34Medina's showing off the power in round number two here against Adrian Curiel.
07:57Yeah, right here, Medina's setting up that left hook to the body with that short right uppercut.
08:02And Curiel's just diving in, getting hit with the shot.
08:06And he's getting hit with the shot to the liver because he's squared up.
08:11So he's making it easy for Medina to land that shot.
08:14See how he's squared up right there, exposing his rib, getting hit clean with that left hook.
08:24Don't give away so many rounds.
08:28You're absorbing the shots right now.
08:30And he's looking for that left hook, that lever shot, that lever shot.
08:42Now, Curiel's corner is right.
08:44Medina's looking for that left shot.
08:47He is certainly landing a ton of left shots, especially in that round two.
08:51See if it continues here in the third.
08:53You see, Curiel's starting off the round with a jab, but don't jab just to jab.
08:58You know, there has to be a setup behind that.
09:01See?
09:03Ooh, he felt that shot.
09:05Tried to wave it off.
09:08You're indicating more than you'd want to by doing that.
09:13You know, Curiel's style is as if he has a punch.
09:17Very aggressive, straightforward.
09:21I'll give you an example.
09:22Paulie Mononaggi's not known for his, wasn't known for his knockout power.
09:26So Paulie depended on his boxing, jab and move and angles.
09:32And that's what Curiel has to do.
09:36Medina petitioning.
09:38He was hit in the back of the head.
09:40Good sportsmanship from these two Mexicans.
09:42And like you said, Gabe, we saw it in the very beginning, but where's the jab gone for Curiel?
10:03Yeah.
10:05You can't play.
10:07Curiel cannot beat Medina at his game.
10:09You have to set traps.
10:12You have to jab.
10:14You have to make Medina dive in, be aggressive, catch him with counters.
10:20But it's difficult because Medina's super sharp, and he has a great tight defense.
10:26And that hook to the body keeps landing.
10:28Clean.
10:29So does the left hook to the body.
10:31Another one right there, landed by Medina.
10:33Good action.
10:35With just over a minute to go in round number three.
10:37Great, great body work by the champion.
10:47There is a crispness to the punches from the Bantamweight world champion that you could certainly see.
10:58But inside this room, absolutely here.
11:07Most of them have been thudding off the body of Adrian Curiel.
11:25Curiel with a jab to the body.
11:26Another quality round here for the champion.
11:46Christian Medina exerting his might, his toughness, and his power punching against the former light flyweight champ.
11:53Medina con adrenalina.
11:55Si.
11:55In condition line.
12:02Right here, Medina landing that good left hook to the body.
12:05And up top.
12:07That was borderline.
12:08So that's good inside work by Medina.
12:12Good left foot.
12:13Correo ate that shot, but he's feeling these shots of the body.
12:17He's breaking them down.
12:18The champion is breaking Correo down with these body shots.
12:29You need to let your hands go more.
12:33And get your hands up when you go in there as well.
12:37And look for the uppercut.
12:42Legendary Mexican trainer Rafael Guzman in the corner of Christian Medina.
12:47Game plan's worked so far.
12:50As he continues to try to just break down Correo from the basement up.
13:00Medina looking for his sixth consecutive win and a successful first title defense.
13:07And a right hand sneaks in over the guard of Medina.
13:20That was a nice shot.
13:21That was a good shot by Correo.
13:23The relentless pressure, the calling card for Adrian Correo.
13:33He will come forward with that high guard.
13:34Throw his shots.
13:35As we saw right there, he has that ability to time up the right hand and land the effective blow.
13:48But again, despite these being the lower weight classes, is it too much of a climb going from 105, 108 to 118?
14:01You know, I think this is a better look right now for Cordiere rather than applying pressure.
14:16He's moving around.
14:17He's jabbing.
14:18He's throwing counters.
14:19And he's slipping shots.
14:22You know, make Medina engage and see if he can counter in between.
14:35Just got out of the way of a big overhand left attempt for Medina.
14:38The champion keeps ripping that hook to the body.
14:45Great shot to slow Cordiere down.
14:53See Medina watching the hips of Carreo as he comes in as they exchange in the corner.
15:04It's funny because Cordiere does fight like he's a puncher.
15:08And it's, you know, he has to depend more on his boxing abilities and his jab.
15:17I think Carreo's showing good movement here around four.
15:34A better round for Carreo, but not exactly one that he won either.
15:51Yeah, it was an exciting round.
15:53But yeah, you know, he's just diving in with big shots.
15:57If we start to let our hands go with speed, we won't be able to respond.
16:04So we have to respond.
16:05Yes, yes, the bar.
16:07Yes.
16:08Yes, the bar is.
16:09Good time.
16:10He will be able to respond.
16:13Yes, yes.
16:14Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
16:18You can move on.
16:27Yes, yes, yes, yes.
16:28Yes, yes, yes.
16:31It's round number five, and it's been all Christian Medina.
16:52Chispa, the 118-pound titleist in full control, and showing off now with a series of lefts,
17:01then some rights to open up round five here against Curio.
17:22Both fighters, showing respect for one another.
17:29There will be no showmanship in this ring for however long this main event lasts.
17:36These two respectful Mexican champions, certainly of one another.
17:52Curio, perhaps getting a piece of Medina with these punches, but certainly not all of them.
18:09Right-hand counter with the uppercut by Medina.
18:13You know, for the end, he landed some good shots in that exchange.
18:18You know, I don't like to see Medina in that corner.
18:21He was squared up.
18:22He got hit with some few shots.
18:27Curio told us, I mean, he flat-out believes he's a better boxer than Medina.
18:34And far superior technically, but again, you go back to the size difference,
18:41and we understand when the opportunity arises to take it,
18:46but you can't just discount the factor of the size.
18:49Yeah.
18:49And, you know, Curio's not boxing.
18:53He's more fighting like a slugger.
18:57So, you know, it's easy for Medina to brace,
19:01even though he got hit clean right now with a shot.
19:03Curio's sneaking into the left hand on the clinch.
19:18Final 30 seconds of round five.
19:20Curio's finding a target with that left hook.
19:28Good guard for Medina downstairs.
19:30Curio might have nicked him upstairs, though.
19:33And this round might have gone to Curio.
19:35There's a clean left hand from the former elect flyweight champion.
19:38And he's doing a better job of guarding that left hand downstairs,
19:46protecting the liver.
19:52Curio finding a formula to look much better in round number five.
20:00That's it.
20:01We're coming back into it now.
20:02How are you feeling?
20:03Yeah, I don't want you to get hit.
20:07Yeah, you're absorbing a great deal of pressure.
20:11And you're also finding the angles there.
20:15We're going to change.
20:17Okay, we're going to start to gradually come into this fight now.
20:22Okay, I'm going to send you out.
20:23We're going to send him out to throw hooks, hooks, hooks.
20:25I want to make sure that you keep working hard to work out against this guy.
20:33Give me the gun shield.
20:36Before turning pro, working his way up as an amateur,
20:51Adrian Curiel absolutely idolized Canelo Alvarez as a young boxer.
20:56Here he is in Canelo's hometown, Guadalajara, Jalisco,
21:01trying to find another moment of glory
21:04and become a two-division world champion.
21:08So far, the current champion, Christian Medina,
21:11has stood firmly in his way.
21:13Sneaky left hand downstairs thrown by Curiel.
21:40You know, it was on the belt line.
22:06I don't want to think it was a low blow.
22:08It's a belt line shot.
22:09That backed up Curiel.
22:14How effective was it?
22:21See, Medina, he throws one shot at a time,
22:24but it's really trap shots.
22:26You know, he kind of, like, lures you to sleep with a hook,
22:30with a hook, you know, throw a jab,
22:32and then he'll set you up with that body shot.
22:34The whole time, he's looking for the left hook to the body,
22:36and he's setting it up with decoy shots up top.
22:45See, everything here is just a setup.
22:48He's setting up a trap.
22:49He's looking for a shot right now.
22:50And nothing truly thrown in conviction.
22:52Yeah, and then right there, he steps into that one-two.
22:57So, the rhythm that Curiel has is,
23:01Curiel is everything's coming hard.
23:03So even though, even though shots are landing,
23:05Medina could race for the shots,
23:07because he sees it coming.
23:08Medina's a little more sneaky with his shots.
23:13Good right-hand counter from Curiel.
23:24And now Medina working underneath it on the inside.
23:30Came through the guard of Curiel.
23:39Medina's looked like he's made some nice adjustments
23:41from round five.
23:43Which is a round, you could argue,
23:46that did go to Curiel.
23:48Good round.
23:49But Medina's still in control.
24:04That's good.
24:06There we go.
24:07Now he's starting to connect with more shots.
24:10Straight one-two.
24:13Waist movement.
24:15Unbox a little bit more, too.
24:17And let's go with a straight right hand
24:20and then look at the shot to the body.
24:22And then look at the upper guard.
24:24Now three shots there,
24:26that's what you can get to connect with.
24:28And then jump.
24:34Arm side on.
24:35And then hit him to the body.
24:36Well, we're past the halfway point
24:47in our main event for the WBO Bantamweight title.
24:52And so far, the current champion,
24:54Christian Chispa, Medina,
24:55in front of his hometown,
24:57seemingly in full control over Adrian Curiel,
25:00the former light flyweight champion.
25:08Along with Gabe Rosado and Sofia Gutierrez,
25:11I'm Justin Shackle here from Guadalajara.
25:13It's been exciting,
25:14as are all these Mexican shows.
25:17They certainly packed the punch.
25:18They packed the excitement.
25:19And this has been no different,
25:22especially early on.
25:23Medina found the home early
25:25with some left hooks
25:27to the body of Curiel.
25:31It's a nice, sneaky right uppercut
25:33by Medina.
25:34Quality combo.
25:55That's capped off
25:56with a left hook upstairs
25:57by Medina.
25:58Under quality left hook,
26:26and he scrapes Curiel
26:27with a left uppercut
26:28comes back in
26:29with an uppercut as well.
26:31Despite being a world champion,
26:33Christian Medina,
26:35his resume,
26:36pass taken down
26:37to Kay in September,
26:38isn't all that deep.
26:40Obviously not as established
26:42as some other champions
26:45at 118 pounds.
26:50No matter what you're seeing
26:51from Curiel here,
26:52he is a former champion,
26:54albeit at a lighter weight class.
26:57Another uppercut.
27:07Sneaking through the guards,
27:09Christian Medina.
27:10Curiel trying to stay busy
27:12with the champ on the ropes.
27:13Cordier's just, you know,
27:17fighting head forward
27:18and, you know,
27:21coming in off balance,
27:22trying to throw big shots,
27:23so he's getting hit
27:24with some counter shots.
27:25And it's been the M.O.
27:28for Adrian Curiel
27:29for much of his career.
27:31It leaves him susceptible
27:32for those counters.
27:33And we saw that
27:36in the rematch
27:37against Nank Shinga.
27:38He was overwhelmed
27:39late in that fight.
27:39He just might be a little
27:48overwhelmed at 118 pounds.
27:49Yeah.
28:06No, I'm fighting it.
28:09Don't train with him.
28:09Yeah, you're doing well,
28:14but we want to see you
28:14a little bit better in there.
28:21Don't stay in there too much.
28:31Do it for your dad.
28:32You need more combinations.
28:35Don't stay on the ropes.
28:36When you can't hit him
28:40to the body low.
28:53Well, you heard
28:53Kieran Simpson
28:54translate it in the corner.
28:56There was a
28:57slight moment of just,
29:00hey, go get him there, fella.
29:02From Medina's trainer
29:04to talk about
29:04doing it for your dad.
29:05Medina has long said
29:07it was his father
29:08who had a dream
29:10of becoming a boxer.
29:11He never had the chance
29:12to pursue it professionally.
29:13So being a world champ here
29:15became a dream
29:17that Christian carried with him
29:18as he eats a big right hand
29:19from Curiel
29:20since he was a kid.
29:23Maybe that woke up.
29:24Medina.
29:24Knocked out.
29:25Oh, no.
29:25Oh.
29:27No key size.
29:28No.
29:29No.
29:29No.
29:29No.
29:30No.
29:30No.
29:31No.
29:31No.
29:31No.
29:32No.
29:32No.
29:33No.
29:34The corner of...
29:35The corner of Medina,
29:38they let him know
29:39that, you know,
29:39you're winning the round
29:40but you're just not
29:41winning the decisive key.
29:42That right hand,
29:53a good example
29:54of Curiel's ability
29:55to time
29:56the punch,
29:58specifically the right hand.
30:02That's one of the strengths
30:04of the former champ.
30:05And as aesthetically pleasing
30:10as that punch looked,
30:11I mean,
30:11Medina ate it
30:12no problem.
30:13So if that's the best
30:15he can offer,
30:16what type of strategy
30:19does Curiel need to employ
30:22over these last four rounds
30:24or so
30:24to have a chance
30:26at coming back
30:26in this fight?
30:27Medina tapping the body
30:40with that left hook.
30:43That was the weapon
30:44early on
30:44in this battle
30:46for Medina.
30:48Been laying low.
30:53You wonder, Gabe,
30:54talk about Medina setting traps.
30:55Could he be setting
30:56multi-round traps
30:58with that left hook
30:59at this point?
31:00Yeah.
31:01That's money in the bank
31:02slowing Gordia down
31:03for the later rounds.
31:05He's biding his time
31:07for one of those
31:09explosive left hooks
31:10to the body.
31:17Final 30 seconds
31:18of the eighth round.
31:21Curiel eats a left hook.
31:25for the left hook
31:35at the top of the head
31:36thrown by Christian Medina.
31:41Chisma
31:42looking chiseled.
31:44Sneaks out of the way
31:45of a left hand
31:46from Curiel
31:46as we are group eight
31:48in our main event.
31:49персонаж
32:06right here.
32:07Medina.
32:07Popping that jab.
32:08Good work right there
32:09for Curiel.
32:10Setting up
32:11that overhand right
32:12landing flush.
32:14Medina ate that shot,
32:14Make sure you throw the overhand right to the left hand.
32:21You can do this.
32:24Try like that.
32:27You do that, I know you can.
32:30Yeah, make sure you face him third.
32:33Yeah, touch him, touch him, make him miss, and then hurt him.
32:37It's been easier said than done for Adrian Curiel.
32:51Beginning of round nine, these two exchanging blows right in the middle of the ring here in Guadalajara
32:56as Medina eats another left hook from Curiel.
32:59And I think this is exactly what Medina should do, you know, impose his size and his punching power
33:05and overwhelm Curiel with these shots.
33:25Here's that left hook, finding the target on the body.
33:30And Medina looks like he's picking up the power shots here against Curiel in the ninth.
33:38Those close range uppercuts have been a weapon throughout the middle rounds,
33:42but there's been a little more oof on these punches from Medina gave,
33:46and he snapped back ahead of Curiel.
33:48Great combination right there by Medina, landing some sharp uppercuts,
33:58and then finishing with that left hook to the body.
34:00Curiel trying to answer back with a left-right combo to the body as well.
34:06He's taking some big shots.
34:16Medina just walking down the former light flyaway champion here in round nine.
34:20You can see Medina, it almost appears just the way Curiel is hunched over Medina's body frame.
34:36He is towering over Curiel in the ninth round,
34:40perhaps illustrating the disparity here at the bantamweight level.
34:46Yeah, he's really wearing Gordiet down with these big shots of the body.
34:50You know, the head shots are great,
34:52but the body work is what does the damage.
34:56Adrian Curiel has been stopped one time earlier in his career.
35:14Obviously that was against Savante Nanshinga.
35:19And for Curiel, he's trying to avoid a third loss over his last five bouts.
35:25Curiel continues to come at Medina despite the champion really putting his accuracy together in round number nine.
35:45Give me water. There is no tomorrow.
36:01How are you feeling? Good, good, good.
36:05There's a lovely round now.
36:07Take it. Come on. Bit by bit.
36:10Right here, Medina landing a nice short right uppercut,
36:17following up with another one,
36:19and just throwing some nice pinpoint accurate shots,
36:23and never forgetting the body.
36:25Always finishing to the body with that big left hook.
36:28And Gordiet took a beating in that final seconds of that round.
36:33Walking his man down, landing big right hands up top.
36:38Well, the formula to this point has been perfect for Christian Medina.
36:44Like you said, pay attention upstairs, but cap it off with damage to the body.
36:50Cariel trying to come out of the corner with a burst of speed as we begin round ten.
36:57Medina smothering him here with his own power shots.
37:12Medina knows an impressive performance and not just winning in his first title defense
37:19could lead to much bigger things at 118 pounds, potential unification bouts,
37:25maybe with a fellow countryman and Jose Salas, the current IBF champion,
37:29or even a bigger opportunity that doesn't involve a unification bout.
37:34And more so with the imminent climb to bantamweight for Jesse Bam Rodriguez
37:40as soon as in the second half of this year.
37:43That's the two minutes to go in round ten.
37:57And Gabe talking to some matrim people this week.
37:59They kind of framed this as an audition for these two fighters,
38:03potentially for that fight against Bam later on.
38:06For sure.
38:07And you know Medina is the one that's in control.
38:10So, you know, it'd be more likely if it keeps on at this pace with Medina and Bam in the future.
38:20Medina continues to attack the body of Cariel.
38:23The referee, Jose Rivera, telling him to keep his hands up close to the belt line.
38:28But they continue to have some effect against Cariel.
38:33Another wildy left hand to the body.
38:48Medina's just, I mean, Cariel is just falling in.
38:51I would like to see Medina cut an angle.
38:54All right, so we're seeing multiple signs of gamesmanship here from Cariel.
39:06One can only wonder if he's a little taxed right now.
39:09Yeah, he is.
39:10Buying some time.
39:11He is, and you can tell that he is because he's leaning his weight on Medina.
39:17And what I would like Medina to do is cut an angle so that Cariel falls forward
39:22and then hit him with some shots to the body or up top.
39:26You know, force his weight to come forward.
39:30It's been a drawback of Cariel's career up until this point.
39:39Can Medina take advantage as we approach the championship rounds here in Guadalajara?
39:46So far, well on its way to a successful first title defense.
39:53Keep your hands up.
39:55That's because you're keeping your hands up.
40:04Keep them up.
40:05Keep them up.
40:09Jesper, this is the 11th.
40:11You need to go out nice and alive.
40:13Get on the inside and make sure you connect with those shots below.
40:16If he grabs onto you, make sure you carry on firing.
40:23Yeah, he's pulling my head out.
40:28If he does that, make sure you throw the uppercut.
40:31And make sure you throw more hooks as well.
40:34Round number 11 here in Guadalajara between the champion Christian Medina and the challenger Adrian Curiel.
40:56And so far, there have been some close rounds, but perhaps not close enough for Medina at this moment to be winning by a landslide.
41:06And, well, you don't want to see that.
41:11The knee coming up off the graph of the champ.
41:15We saw the good sportsmanship in the first half of the fight.
41:17Things get a little bit chippier in the latter half.
41:22Maybe something like that is fuel Medina here to close the show.
41:34They're both fighters getting a little dirty, rabbi-punching right now.
41:37And Jose Rivera demanding them to keep it clean.
41:41And a big punch landing by Medina.
41:44They go head-to-head here in the middle of the ring in round 11.
41:48Just the left hand to the body has just been the exclamation point for Medina this entire fight.
42:09No matter what he's throwing beforehand, it always seems to cap any type of flurry, any type of sequence.
42:16And a lot of them have been accurate.
42:19Nice shot right there by Curiel.
42:21Mid-section shot.
42:23You know, but Medina's allowing Curiel to lean on him.
42:28And just if he cuts the angle, you know, cut the angle,
42:35Curiel's weight falls forward, and then you catch him with some shots.
42:40Curiel lands a left hand upstairs.
42:49And another as well.
42:52One thing's for sure, Medina better tighten up that defense if him and the band fight ever happens.
43:03Because, you know, he's getting hit with that hook constantly.
43:09And, you know, Curiel doesn't have power, so...
43:12Medina's eating the shots, but, you know, a guy like Bam is a game changer.
43:18It's a different kind of punch.
43:19That's obviously a fighter who will change angles.
43:22Absolutely.
43:23And put himself in position to land the effective punch.
43:25That's needed.
43:28Three-punch combo for Medina and another counter from Curiel.
43:41The firepower just isn't there from Adrian Curiel to inflict enough damage.
43:48But he's hanging tough.
43:50Going toe-to-toe with Christian Medina in his backyard.
43:54The following shots.
43:55You can't just wait, to see what he's gonna do.
44:12It's the final round.
44:15The having a lot of shots together.
44:17Double hook, and double left hand.
44:21you have to make sure you aim that right on his cheekbone
44:28we're in the home straight now
44:30you need everything from you
44:46well late in 2023
44:48Adrian Curiel had
44:49what Darren Barker and Tony Bell you were phrasing the punch of a lifetime against Savantin on Shinga
44:55You're gonna have to dig into his bag of tricks to find a second punch of a lifetime
45:00Here around number 12 if he wants to you to throw the champ
45:19Medina starting off the 12th round effectively jabbing here against Curiel
45:24keeping him from coming completely inside
45:29see it for a moment and now they go forehead to forehead back up
45:34and I like this you know Medina's punching from a distance so he has more leverage on the shots
45:39left hook flip the chin of Curiel
45:49it's been a good showing for
46:04she's about Medina in front of his home crowd
46:07can he put the cherry on top record the stoppage
46:11now both fighters leaning in Medina drifting away from like you're talking about keeping Curiel at range he obviously has the reach to do so
46:28and when he keeps him at range he lands flush shots
46:34more leverage on the punches
46:36I think he gives himself a better opportunity
46:38to stop Gordian
46:40punch from the outside get more leverage on the shots
46:42left hand upstairs and a right hook sneaks behind the glove of Curiel and lands
46:52and there's that left hook to the body
46:55it's been such an effective weapon for Medina throughout this fight
46:59Curiel trying to throw a left hook of his own to the liver
47:04for the most part
47:10Jose Rivera letting these two figure it out as several punches go below the belt or right at the belt line
47:16a lot of low blows
47:18yeah
47:19a lot of low blows
47:21and it's funny because both fighters are not even complaining
47:31final 15 seconds here in round 12
47:35Chispa Medina
47:37rewarding the hometown crowd
47:40with what looks like a successful title defense of his WBO Bantamweight strap
47:47we'll get the final tally from the judges but Christian Medina ultra impressive
47:57against the former champ Adrian Curiel
48:01and is it enough to warrant a unification opportunity
48:06or perhaps like we were talking about a date with one of the pound for pound greats in the sport today
48:13Jesse Bam Rodriguez
48:15a preseason achievement
48:16a preseason achievement
48:18a preseason elaborate
48:19coaching
48:20it is enough to find the final tally for pintures
48:22it is enough to find the pot
48:23to find the kuv Sifani
48:24a preseason
48:26a preseason
48:27a preseason
48:29to find the pot
48:30players
48:31a preseason
48:32a preseason
48:35a preseason
48:36a preseason
48:36syst signaling
48:37a preseason
48:38lou
48:40И
48:42anete
48:43fect
48:43어제
48:43been
48:44terrific six months for Christian Medina having to take the opportunity of a
48:50lifetime to go overseas into Japan and dethrone Yashiki Takei in front of his
48:59home crowd come back with the belt and when he did there was a ceremony to honor
49:09Medina where he was presented his new belt he had Marco Antonio Barrera there
49:15also had Juan Manuel Marquez in attendance and it was Marquez you said
49:20winning the title is not the hardest part the real challenge is defending it
49:25against worthy contenders despite the weight jump Curiel proved himself to be a
49:31worthy adversary a relentless pressure fighter did not back down but Medina
49:38able to overpower the former light flight weight champion here tonight
49:53coming up later this month Ryan Garcia is back in action on February 21st as he
50:00faces defending WBC welterweight champ Mario Barrios it is live and exclusive
50:06from Las Vegas here on DAZN
50:15the two fighters and changing handshakes as we're about to make this one official
50:23between Medina and Curiel here in Guadalajara as Medina is all smiles in front of
50:32the hometown crowd he's looking to get his hand raised and for his sixth straight
50:38win as we go inside the ring with David Diamante
50:41the scores read as follows Lisa jump of 120, 108, 120, 108
51:00Fernando Villareal, 116, 116, 112
51:09Pam Hayashida, 115, 113, 115, 113
51:15Dora-12, 113.
51:28Tora Pursuit ganador for decision Unaku man in all for your winner by unanimous
51:30decision Unaku officer with by unanimous decision and steel.
51:32cutre that is'll be here 3, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3, 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 7, 8.
51:4412 even.
51:45Yeah.
51:46Nevertheless, Christian Medina rightfully victorious here over Adrian Curiel,
51:53a successful title defense in his hometown.
51:56Doesn't get any sweeter than that.
51:57As you see, he's flanked by Oscar Valdez and Rafael Espinosa,
52:03current WBO featherweight champ.
52:07And Chispa acknowledging the crowd as he comes away.
52:15With a successful title defense.
52:18And now the big question is what awaits Christian Medina next?
52:23Is it a potential unification bout?
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