Mayorga returns in style as Vargas blasted into retirement

RICARDO MAYORGA knocked down Fernando Vargas in the first and 11th rounds to capture a majority decision in a super-middleweight duel of former world champions, sending Vargas to retirement in defeat.

Two judges scored the Nicaraguan fighter a winner by scores of 115-111 and 114-112 while the third saw the bout as a 113-113 draw.

Each man was at the heaviest size of his career, but it was the focus and discipline Mayorga showed that surprised Vargas and allowed Mayorga land knockdown blows late in rounds.