Raymond Muratalla prolonged his unbeaten file to 21-0 with a unanimous-decision victory over former world champion Tevin Farmer – earlier than calling out Denys Berinchyk and Shakur Stevenson.
Muratalla triumphed 97-92, 96-93 and 95-94 on the scorecards in Saturday night time’s light-weight contest towards Farmer, who was the IBF tremendous featherweight title holder from 2018 to 2020.
The Californian is now hoping to face WBO light-weight champion Denys Berinchyk or WBC light-weight kingpin Shakur Stevenson.
The 27-year-old stated: “I want the champions next. Berinchyk called my name. I’m calling out his name right now. If I can’t get Berinchyk, then I want Shakur.”
Muratalla vs Farmer had turn out to be the primary occasion in Las Vegas after WBO and IBF middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly was compelled to withdraw from his defence towards Andrei Mikhailovich because of dehydration.
Farmer, 33, arguably outboxed Muratalla within the first half of the battle, exhibiting his velocity and counterpunching skill along with his southpaw type, however pale because the bout progressed with Muratalla’s additional energy telling.
Farmer, whose defeat was the sixth of a 41-fight profession, was deducted a degree for holding within the eighth spherical, earlier than Muratalla landed a number of physique pictures and a strong proper hand en path to victory.
The winner stated: “He was moving around. He was holding. So I had to keep putting on the pressure. And we came out with the victory.
“I used to be simply in step with the strain. I simply stored placing it on. My workforce instructed me to maintain placing it on. I used to be breaking him down spherical by spherical.”
A frustrated Farmer said: “That time deduction was loopy. I really feel like we have been each holding.
“The times I tried to get out, he had my arm, so it looked like I was holding. But it’s the ref. He makes the calls. You have to take it on the chin.”
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