Jaime Munguia committed legal assault on Saturday afternoon in El Paso, Texas.
The 24-year-old Mexican pounded game, but overmatched Kamil Szeremeta for almost all of six rounds of a scheduled 12-round middleweight bout, after which the Polish fighter made it clear to the referee that he could take no more.
Szeremeta (21-2, 5 KOs) took the fight on late notice after Maciej Sulecki pulled out and gave a courageous effort. He just didn’t have the tools — the ability, the power and ultimately the durability — to cope with Munguia’s impressive offensive arsenal.
Munguia (37-0, 30 KOs) threw and landed almost every punch ever invented, including many particularly hard ones to the body. Szeremeta, who guarded his face with his hands the entire fight, blocked some and landed his own punches here and there.
However, Munguia landed more and more punishing blows as the fight progressed, which wore Szeremeta down.
By the sixth and final round, referee Rafael Ramos obviously was watching Szeremeta closely and considered stepping in but he waited until the end of the round. Ramos approached Szeremeta as he sat on his stool, asked if he was OK, got his answer and waved off the fight.
Munguia can say he stopped Szeremeta one round earlier than 160-pound titleholder Gennadiy Golovkin did, although Triple-G put the Pole down four times.
The former 154-pound titleholder from Tijuana, trained by Erik Morales, said afterward that he hopes to get a shot at a middleweight title before the end of the year or face Gabriel Rosado, who stopped Bektemir Melikuziev earlier on the card.
He definitely took a step in that direction on Saturday.
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