Just like that, the Philippines has no current world boxing champion. Filipino Mark Magsayo suffers the first loss of his professional career as he surrenders his WBC featherweight belt to Mexican Rey Vargas.
Donaire yielded his WBC bantamweight throne in a unification bout against Japanese Naoya Inoue in June, while Ancajas dropped his IBF super flyweight crown to Argentine Fernando Martinez in February.
Sneaking in a right straight, Magsayo knocked down the towering Vargas in the ninth round, but the Mexican was able to fend off the Filipino’s wild assault and survived the round. In the eighth, Magsayo finally broke through Vargas’ defenses with two hard rights that staggered the Mexican.
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