Edward "Kid" Vazquez of Fort Worth returns to the ring on October 8th to take on Viktor Slavinskyi 13-1-1 (6). Slavinskyi originally hails from Ukraine and is now fighting out of Los Angeles, California. Vazquez sports a 12-1 (3) record and last fought in July and outpointed Jose Argel in the famous 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. Vazquez dominated the fight, winning every round on every card, on his way to picking up the unanimous decision victory. Before that, the Fort Worthian fought Raymond Ford at the Footprint Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. A fight with everyone on press row, everyone in the arena, and even Ford's promoter Eddie Hearn had Vazquez winning. Two of the three judges did the unthinkable and handed in wide scorecards favoring Ford!! In a fight, everyone in attendance had either 98-92 or 97-93 in favor of Vazquez. The bogus verdict looks like the robbery of the year for 2022 but didn't keep the Texan down for long "Once the call was made and they said that I lost, I was mad, for about an hour or so, and that was it. Other than that, I put it behind me." Vazquez said.
He will now battle Slavinskiy in an eight-round affair at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, which is colloquially known as the Punch Bowl. The scrap will be a part of the Sebastian Fundora VS Carlos Ocampo undercard. Ocampo has previously fought for a world title. He was stopped in one round by Errol Spence of Desoto in June of 2018. Slavinski last fought in February and was narrowly and perhaps controversially outpointed by Claudio Marrero. Prior to the Marrero fight, he narrowly outpointed Leduan Barthelemy and has a win over Vazquez's stablemate Clay "3RD Degree" Burns, also of Fort Worth. The card will air on Showtime.