Vazquez Triumphs Split-Decision Above Marquez
Last Saturday at Home Depot Center, Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez rumbled inside the ring for the WBC super bantamweight title had possession of Vazquez. In their first previous fight, Marquez seized the victory by the TKO in the seventh round, wherein Vazquez suffered because of a broken nose.
In the rematch in last August, Vazquez won by a knockout in the sixth round. In their third fight, Vazquez made a knockdown in the twelfth round to come out with a split-decision victory against Marquez to retain his title. They both received a 114-111 tally, although Vazquez was given a 113-112 score by one of the judges, James Jen-Kin due to the twelfth round knockdown.