Orobio Stops Cedeno in Three, Bazinyan Stops Butler in Montreal

Jhon Orobio got his first main event, his first unbeaten opponent and his first real test on paper. He needed less than three rounds to make it look like a formality.

Orobio (20-0, 18 KOs) dropped Hendri Cedeno in the first round and again in the third, then stopped him at 1:54 of the third on Thursday night at Casino de Montréal, The Ring reported. He kept his WBA and WBC Continental Americas super lightweight titles in the 10-round headliner of the Eye of the Tiger Management card on DAZN. FIGHTMAG and Boxing News 24 both had it as a third-round TKO with knockdowns in the first and third rounds. Cedeno, of the Dominican Republic, drops to 16-1 with 12 KOs.

How It Ended

The first knockdown came early and put Cedeno, who hadn't fought in about 19 months, on the back foot right away. In the third, a right hand made him stumble about 1:20 into the round and another right put him on one knee, according to The Ring. Cedeno beat referee Martin Forest's count, but Orobio rocked him with a left hook along the ropes, and Forest waved it off with Cedeno still taking shots. It was Orobio's fourth knockout in four fights this year, The Ring noted.

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Bazinyan Stops Butler in the Last Round

In the co-feature, Erik Bazinyan (33-1-1, 24 KOs) stopped Steven Butler (38-7-1, 32 KOs) in the 10th and final round of their super middleweight fight, per FIGHTMAG and Boxing News 24. BN24 timed the stoppage at 22 seconds into the round. Bazinyan hurt Butler with a right hand, followed with a flurry that put him on a knee, and referee Junior Padullo stopped it after Butler got up. It was Bazinyan's first fight since Jaime Munguia stopped him in September 2024. For Butler, who took this one after Lenar Perez pulled out injured, it's a second straight stoppage loss after his July defeat to Edgar Berlanga, BN24 reported.

On the undercard, FIGHTMAG had Avery Martin Duval stopping Damian Wrzesinski in the fourth and Wyatt Sanford taking a unanimous decision over Gabriel Jimenez, 80-72 on all three cards.

The Kimster's Take

We said in the fight-day preview this was a straightforward test: two unbeaten punchers, one of them rusty. It turned out to be a mismatch, and that tells you more about Orobio than it does about Cedeno. He's 23, he's 20-0 with 18 knockouts, and he finished a guy who walked in with a zero without ever having to go past three rounds. The question now isn't whether Estephan can sell him as a headliner. It's who's willing to take this fight next. Somebody with real rounds in the bank at 140, someone who can make him work in the seventh and eighth, is the next honest step. Bazinyan deserves credit too. Coming off a long layoff and a stoppage loss, he stayed patient and closed the show in the final round.

When Orobio's next opponent is named and the odds go up, that's the kind of fight you can put a little on in Points Bet.