On April 16, 2022, Radzhab Butaev (14-0, 11 KOs), the welterweight WBA (Regular) champion, defends his title against the reigning WBA welterweight champion Eimantas Stanionis (13-0, 9 KOs).
Radzhab Butaev is coming in to the fight on a 14-fight win streak with a 78% KO rate; his last fight was a 9th round TKO victory over Jamal James, 5 months and 17 days ago. Eimantas Stanionis is on a 13-fight win streak with a 69% KO rate, with his last fight being a undefined loss to Luis Collazo, 8 months and 9 days ago.
The winning odds are at 81.5-18.5 in favor of Eimantas Stanionis. Radzhab Butaev is going to look good in the fight but he won't be able to do enough to win. Stanionis should win this fight.
Eimantas Stanionis defeated Radzhab Butaev via split decision and wins the WBA (Regular) title — in his first world-title fight. Stanionis improves his record to 14-0, while Butaev adds a loss to his record at 14-1.