Jordan Orozco Stops Yusniel Abrahante in Round Six
Jordan Orozco stopped Yusniel Abrahante in the sixth round of a scheduled 10-round bantamweight fight Friday night at Caribe Royale Orlando. The unbeaten Nicaraguan was trailing on the DAZN call when referee Luis Pavon waved the bout off, and the finish kept the WBA Continental Gold title in his possession.
The stoppage arrived with about 30 seconds left in the sixth. Abrahante bent at the ropes, Orozco stepped in, and the broadcast immediately treated the ending as something other than a clean punch. “Something happened,” the call said. “I think it’s his arm.”
Pavon then stopped it. “After losing the first half of the fight, Jordan Orozco and Luis Pavon waves it off,” the commentary said. “Shocking win for Jordan Orozco.”
The fight was the co-main event of Matchroom Boxing Project Series 2, a card co-promoted with Boxlab Promotions and BiYu Promotions and streamed on DAZN. Omari Jones against Alan Sanchez topped the show. Orozco and Abrahante were booked at 118 pounds for the regional belt, and Thursday’s scale had Orozco at 117.8 pounds and Abrahante on the limit.
Orozco entered at 17-0 with all 17 wins by stoppage, ranked No. 8 by the WBA and No. 10 by the WBO in the pre-fight listings. He had stopped Fernando Diaz in the third round on June 13 in the same Orlando building. Abrahante came in at 8-2 with one knockout, off a unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Luis Coria in July, and his team said he took this assignment on short notice.
That record is why the finish looked so strange on the call. “Lost every round,” the commentary said. “About to lose his title belt. Gets the knockout win.” Those lines were the broadcast’s reading of the cards, not an official score. No judge totals were read in the clip.
Abrahante had framed the fight as a chance to ruin another perfect record. “You don’t knock out every opponent you face by accident,” he said before the bout. “But I didn’t take this fight to admire his record. I’m coming to test him in ways he hasn’t been tested before.”
For five-plus rounds, that is what the call described. Orozco had said he did not want the night reduced to another early knockout. “I know people look at my record and see 17 knockouts, but I don’t go into camp thinking I just have to land one big punch,” he said. “The knockouts come from the work we put in at the gym and from executing the game plan.”
The ending did not look like that game plan. The video shows Abrahante doubled near the ropes, Orozco still punching as Pavon steps between them, and the Cuban then held at the ropes while Orozco walks off. The broadcast guessed at an arm. It did not confirm a diagnosis, and neither fighter was quoted after the bell in the available clip.
If the result is entered as a stoppage, Orozco moves to 18-0 with 18 knockouts and keeps the belt he was in danger of losing on the cards. Abrahante drops to 8-3. The larger question is how commissions and the WBA record a finish that the call treated as an injury wave-off rather than a punch that ended the fight.
Orozco had said before the opening bell that he still felt he was just getting started and that a world-title path ran through this fight. He got the win. He did not get the kind of stoppage his record had advertised, and the next listing will have to explain how a fighter who was losing the rounds left Orlando still unbeaten.
