On January 6, 2001, Joel Casamayor (23-0, 14 KOs), the super-featherweight WBA champion, defends his title against former world champion Robert Garcia (33-2, 24 KOs).
Joel Casamayor is coming in to the fight on a 23-fight win streak with a 60% KO rate; his last fight was a 5th round TKO victory over Radford Beasley, 3 months and 21 days ago. Robert Garcia is on a 1-fight win streak with a 68% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision win over Sandro Marcos, 5 months and 8 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Joel Casamayor at 99-1 winning odds. Robert Garcia really doesn't have much to present against Casamayor.
Joel Casamayor stopped Robert Garcia via TKO in the 9th round of the 12-round world-title fight, and successfully defended his WBA super-featherweight title. Casamayor improves his record to 24-0 (15 KOs), while Garcia adds a loss to his record at 33-3.