Former WBC super featherweight champion Francisco Vargas (25-1-2, 18 KOs), who was working with new head trainer Joel Diaz, broke down and stopped Rod Salka (24-5, 4 KOs) in six rounds.
Vargas continues to rebuild his career. Last December he won a nine round technical decision over Stephen Smith - in what was the Mexican brawler's first bout since getting knocked out by Miguel Berchelt last January.
Coming in, Salka won five bouts in a row after getting knocked out cold by Danny Garcia in August of 2014.
Vargas started off as expected, by pushing forward with big punches that were flying. Salka was catching him with counters, but his lack of power was not making a dent on the much bigger hitter.
As the fight continued, Vargas continued to apply more pressure in each round and was throwing big punches to the head and body with very bad intentions.
In the fifth round, Vargas and Salka were trading punches at close range when an uppercut landed and forced Salka to go down for a knee. He made it up at the count of eight as the bell sounded to end the round. Salka face was pretty bruised, and his body was red, as they entered the sixth round.
During the sixth, Salka took a lot of punishment and suffered a bad cut around his left eye. The corner of Salka stopped the fight at the end of the round.
