Oscar Collazo (13-0, 10 KOs) retained the WBO and WBA strawweight titles with a 7th round stoppage of Jayson Vayson (14-2-1, 8 KOs) in a stunning turn of events when Vayson’s corner inexplicably stopped the fight.
It was a competitive fight at the time of the stoppage as Vayson was giving Collazo all he could handle, despite being put down by a check hook in the first round. Vayson clawed his way back into the fight and was hurting Collazo to the body in the fourth round. Collazo battled back, landing combinations and putting Vayson on the ropes in the sixth and seventh rounds.
Despite being an entertaining and competitive fight, Vayson’s corner called for the fight to be stopped without their fighter appearing to be in any real danger.
“They thought I was groggy, but I wanted to fight,” Vayson said. “Of course, I respect the corner’s decision for the safety of the boxer…I felt the punches in my body, but I thought I could manage it.”
Fighting out of Puerto Rico, Collazo collected his third consecutive stoppage win and has been a champion since 2023. He won the WBO title when he stopped Melvin Jerusalem in May 2023 and added the WBA title in 2024 when he knocked out Knockout CP Freshmart in Nov. 2024.
“I believe I had a good stoppage,” Collazo said. “I was putting pressure on, I was picking my shots. [Round 7] was the round we were going to throw and throw and we got the stoppage…the last three rounds I was breaking him down. I knew I was going to get him. I applied the pressure like I wanted. I saw he was slowing down and I wanted to pick my shots in that round and it got stopped.”
In the co-main event undisputed women’s flyweight champion Gabriela Fundora (17-0, 8 KOs) battered Alexas Kubicki (13-2, 2 KOs) from pillar to post to earn a dominant 7th round stoppage. Kubicki replaced Argentina’s Ayelen “Piru” Granadino, who was reportedly denied a visa into the U.S.
Fundora wasted little time landing combinations on the overmatched Kubicki, who valiantly tried to fight off the taller Fundora but took too much damage as the fight was halted to rescue her from further punishment.
