He put two hands in the last round and won a fight that had lost

In an epic fight that served him as an unbeatable letter of presentation in the great window of world boxing, Mirco neck He worked a miracle in the T-Mobile Arena from Las Vegas. In the last round of the contest, when the cards were against them influenced by their early fallen in the second assault, the Argentine won with a Spectacular technical knockout To the Mexican Christian Olivo Barreda.

And not only stretched his undefeated as a professional (15-0) this Santa Fe, born 24 years ago in Dry streambut he won the chance of fighting for the world title of the feathers in the version of the World Boxing Association (AMB) against the current monarch, the British Nick Ball.

“I knew I was losing, they told me in the fifth or sixth round how things came,”He said for the official transmission of the fight, realizing the knowledge he had of the cards.

Effectively he appealed to the last thing he had left since after the final bell the cards that did not give it as winner would arrive: when the last round began, neck lost by 88-82, 87-83 and 86-84 in the eyes of the jurors It was knockout or defeat.

Victory places it as a challenger of English Nick Ballthe current 27 -year -old world weight champion for the AMB. The Santa Fe, then, will go up to the quadrilateral to try to snatch the belt to the man born in Liverpool.

“Now to prepare better than ever,” He synthesized neck visibly exhausted after the fight he resolved, all or nothing, in the last round. The boxer is one of the main hopes of national pugilism.

The Argentine had moments of domain throughout the ten assaults, but Olivo was the one who managed to bother him and attract the attention of the jurors to escape on the cards. It was a fight too closed.

It was not easy to win it. In the second round he played canvas for the first time in his professional career, but he got up and continued until he reached that combination of hooks seconds of the final bell. Olivo managed to get up, but the referee did not want to know anything and decreed the technical knockout.

Perhaps that sequence seemed to clear the doubts about his possibilities: his last presentation had been 10 months ago, on March 30 when he won by unanimous decision to the Laso Ugandés tester Sulaiman Segawa in the same scenario in which he presented himself on Saturday.

Before starting his walk in the rented sport, the Arroyo Seco fighter built an interesting career in the Argentine team: he obtained the Bronze Medal In the category up to 56 kilos at the Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018competed in the World Cup in the International Boxing Association of EKATERIMBURGO 2019 And he was an Olympic representative in Tokio 2020, When he lost in the round of 16 of the pen category against Thai .

Already as a professional, in four years-and with the knockout on Saturday-he forged a perfect 15-0 record (11 of his wins were quickly), with increasing demand and several stamps in his passport: he fought four times in USAtwo in Colombiatwo in Uruguayone in Mexico and one in Panama. That allowed him Las Vegas.

For the fight he ended up winning, Neck prepared for a month in Los Angeles with his coaches, the former world champion Mariano Carrera and Darío Cuello, his father. With them, the preparation for the avecine chance will begin and that still has no date. Although from the knockout on Saturday, the expectation is enormous.