Smith stopped Vargas

In a duel between former world champions in the first middleweight Liam "Beefy" Smith (31-3-1, 17 KOs) scored a thrilling tenth-round technical knockout victory over Jesse Vargas (29-4-2, 11 KOs) on the Taylor-Serrano undercard at Madison Square Garden in New York. In the middle of the fight, Smith was able to seize the advantage in the fight and achieved a referee stoppage at 0:41 of the tenth round. As a result of the fight, Smith got the vacant WBO Intercontinental Championship.