Fort Worth's Edward "Kid" Vazquez continues to make the most of every opportunity given to him. Vazquez picked up an impressive split-decision victory, at the world-famous "Punch Bowl". The Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, outlasted Viktor Slavinskyi, of Ukraine to move his record to 13-1 (3). Picking up his second consecutive victory, since the egregious, bogus decision, he dropped to Raymond Ford, in Phoenix, Arizona, back in February on the undercard of Carlos Cuadras-Bam Rodriguez.
Vazquez delivered a highly impressive performance showing off precision punching, smooth defense and head movement, and solid power on the undercard of Fundora-Ocampo. A card that was televised by Showtime. Getting off to a quick start, the Texan built up an early lead on the cards. The Texan worked behind a stiff jab and was able to work his way onto the inside and take a close but competitive opening stanza. After a competitive first round, the Fort Worthian got cooking in the second. Two right hands dazed the Ukrainian. A short left hook landed on an off-balanced Slavinskiyi and should have been ruled a knockdown but was ruled a slip. Slavinskiyi kept up his high work rate and tried to fight his way back into the fight. However, Vazquez had an answer for everything, and that answer was typically a picture-perfect left hook that was landing with precision over the low lead hand of Slavinskiyi.
The Ukrainian kept up the high work rate and was able to sneak in a few clean shots. However, Vazquez was able to duck and dodge the Ukrainian's artillery and land perfectly timed counter shots with precision. By the sixth round, Vazquez was beginning to wear his opponent down. A thudding left Slavinskyi badly hurt early in the round. Vazquez kept coming forward and again hurt his man. This time with a right hand. With the fight clearly lost on the cards, Slavinskiy picked up the pace and valiantly tried in the last two to get something going but it was clearly not enough, as "Kid" rolled to a points victory by scores of 78-75 and 79-73 with the third judge again doing something absolutely egregious and scoring the bout 77-75 for Slavinskiyi whose record dropped to 13-2-1 (6).