On January 2, 2021, René Alvarado (32-8, 21 KOs), the super-featherweight WBA (Regular) champion, defends his title against Venezuelan challenger, Roger Gutiérrez (24-3-1, 20 KOs).
René Alvarado is coming in to the fight on a 8-fight win streak with a 52% KO rate; his last fight was a 7th round RTD victory over Andrew Cancio, 1 year, 1 month, and 10 days ago. Roger Gutiérrez is on a 5-fight win streak with a 71% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision win over Andres Tapia, 1 year and 19 days ago.
The winning odds are at 78.4-21.6 in favor of Roger Gutiérrez. It is going to be a competitive fight and René Alvarado will put up a very good fight, but Gutiérrez will prevail.
Roger Gutiérrez defeated René Alvarado via unanimous decision in the rematch and wins the WBA (Regular) title — in his first world-title fight. Gutiérrez improves his record to 25-3-1, while Alvarado adds a loss to his record at 32-9.