On May 15, 2021, Luis Nery (31-0, 24 KOs), the super-bantamweight WBC champion, and the super-bantamweight WBA (Regular) champion Brandon Figueroa (21-0-1, 16 KOs), meet in a title-unification fight.
Luis Nery is coming in to the fight on a 31-fight win streak with a 77% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Aarón Alameda, 7 months and 19 days ago. Brandon Figueroa is on a 1-fight win streak with a 72% KO rate, with his last fight being a 10th round TKO win over Damien Vazquez, 7 months and 19 days ago.
The winning odds are at 91.9-8.1 in favor of Brandon Figueroa. It is going to be very difficult for Luis Nery to win this fight.
Brandon Figueroa stopped Luis Nery via KO in the 7th round of the 12-round world-title fight and unified the WBC and WBA (Regular) super-bantamweight titles. Figueroa improves his record to 22-0-1 (17 KOs), while Nery adds a loss to his record at 31-1.