Eleider Alvarez stops brave Michael Seals in Verona.

Former WBO world light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez 25-1 (13 KOs) scored an impressive seventh round knockout over Michael Seals 24-3 (18 KOs) this past weekend at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, New York.. Alvarez ended proceedings with a huge right hand which put the game southerner away for the count. Time was 3:00.
Alvarez later commented “During camp, we concentrated on the right hand over and over. My coach was angry with me because I wasn’t doing what he was originally asking. Finally, the knockout came…. I was inactive for 11 months. I wanted to return as the fighter that beat Kovalev, and this is the kind of victory that we prepared for.”

Lightweight Felix Verdejo 26-1 (16 KOs) scored a ten round unanimous decision victory over Manuel Rey Rojas 18-4 (5 KOs), in his first fight since connecting with trainer Ismael Salas. Verdejo produced a professional showing, outclassing Rojas for the majority of the fight. Scores were 99-91, 97-93, 98-92.

In a battle of 2004 Olympic heavyweights, former USA team captain Devin Vargas took on Puerto Rican representative Victor Bisbal in a scheduled 8 rounder. Both fighters are very obviously in the veteran category of their careers, at 16 years deep as pros. Both fighters failed to set the world alight, with Bispal having his biggest fight, keeping his drawers up.. The Puerto Rican did manage to score a scrappy knockdown in the second but failed to capitalise on the breakthrough.. Both men resorted to slugging in the 4th, with referee Michael Ortega halting the action only to dock 2 points from Bispal for low blows and pushing Vargas down.. Surprisingly the 7th and 8th saw both men trade at close range in entertaining exchanges, until a desperately tired Victor Bispal hit Vargas low once too often, forcing Ortega to award the Victory to the American via disqualification.. The time was 1:02 and the unimpressive Vargas now goes to 22-6 (9 KOs) while Bisbal falls to 24-5 (17 KOs)
At the time of the DQ, Vargas was up 67-63 twice and 66-64.
Had those two points not been deducted earlier in the bout, Bisbal would’ve had a chance to grab majority draw had he not infringed the rules in the final session...