In the opening bout of the DAZN broadcast from Arlington, Texas, unbeaten Cuban heavyweight heavyweight Frank Sanchez 18-0 (13 KOs) outgunned veteran Nagy Aguilera 21-11 (14 KOs) for 6 uncomfortably dirty rounds of a scheduled ten to retain his WBC Continental Americas title via technical decision. Sanchez came out aggressively, hurting Aguilera early with right hands. By the third the fight became more heated with Aguilera complaining to referee Rueben Perez about a rabbit punch, at the same time as Sanchez unloaded a powerful right hand. Aguilera did bite down and fire back, but frustratedly resorted to head butting the Cuban.
Sanchez replied by continually landing more stiff right hands, hurting Aguilera. Sanchez dictated the fifth with the jab frustrating the overmatched American. Round 6 was the closure, a long right hand from Sanchez landed awkwardly to the side of Aguilera’s head in the neck area, the referee warned the Cuban again for what appeared another rabbit punch, meanwhile Aguilera resorted to the dramatics of throwing himself to the canvas in distress. The ringside doctor entered the ring to check the stricken fighter although the Tv replay did not appear to show a shot that would have cause such a reaction.
After several minutes of confusion, the fight was called off by referee Perez and a ruling of an accidental foul was announced sending the fight to the completed scorecards.
All three judges scored it 60-54 for Sanchez as he earned the technical decision at 1:42 of round six, remaining undefeated and retained his WBC Continental Americas title.
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