Rey Vargas vs. Nestor Hugo Paniagua RBR

Rey Geovani Vargas Roldán is now 23-0 (20) and you know what? He doesn't have 5% of the hype around him, but to me he's every bit the prospect Felix Verdejo is.

YEAH I SAID THAT.

 

Only 24 and the kid is a straight up murderer in there.

How did three guys last the distance with him? :huh

Ah, I see:

They are tough as nails. (three men in question have a combined 6 losses by stoppage in 83 bouts...throw away the 4-rounder early in Vargas' career and you have a pair of guys with two stoppage losses between them in 65 bouts)

 

Vargas was already WBC #4, and just captured another bauble (the WBC International Silver title :roll - so he may well leapfrog Shingo Wake to become #3.

I'm not even kidding, he would be a live dog for Santa Cruz this year.

He's taller by a good few inches (no official stats listed but he towered over Paniagua, who's roughly the same as LSC at 5'7"), has busy hands, crushing power, and focuses on body work every bit as much as Santa Cruz - and has better punch selection and does more (and better) work off the jab, compared with the champ.

The only unknown areas, where Teremoto may trump him, are chin and deep-water stamina.

 

I didn't even realize that R-A-P-E was asterisked out! atsch

(but you got the gist anyway?)