Gabriela Fundora destroys Viviana Ruiz in 6th round to retain undisputed flyweight title

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Gabriela Fundora retained her undisputed flyweight championship Saturday with a sixth-round stoppage of Viviana Ruiz.Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy via Getty Images

Undisputed flyweight champion Gabriela Fundora retained her belts with a punch-perfect and fan-friendly performance over Viviana Ruiz on the undercard of Saturday's Golden Boy card inside Anaheim's Honda Center.

“Right away I think she felt my punches,” said Fundora, 23.

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It’s hard to argue otherwise.

Fundora (18-0, 10 KOs), after all, has numerous advantages as a 5-foot-9 fighter with a 69-inch reach competing as a flyweight (112 pounds). And her fight-by-fight development under WBC Boxing Coach of the Year winner Freddy Fundora remains evident, as she put her physical prowess to use with a wide stance and an understanding of range, thudding jabs at Ruiz's head from southpaw position early on.

Fundora, Uncrowned's No. 3 pound-for-pound boxer, won each and every round, fighting in a style that combined David Benavidez’s habit of making things worse for an opponent the longer they lasted, and Wladimir Klitschko’s upright one-two combination work when punching down on smaller opponents.

Fundora stayed side-on, remained out of range of her opponent’s attacks and popped Ruiz’s head back with sharp counters. Smiling, she overcame a fire-fight in the third round while reminding Ruiz (10-3, 5 KOs) it was perhaps an unwise strategy to engage, as Fundora thumped the challenger with a right hook at the end of a particularly brutal sequence.

And so it was only a matter of time before she scored her first knockdown — a left uppercut she rehearsed earlier in the fight, which dropped Ruiz in the fourth, and served as a reminder that the fighter’s fourth knockout in a row was a foregone conclusion.

Fundora battered Ruiz with single shots, one-twos and three-shot flurries that peppered her opponent in the blink of an eye in Round 5, before forcing the finish in the sixth thanks to dozens of unanswered shots that sent Ruiz to the corner, powerless to prevent her head from getting punched off its hinges.

The referee, Ray Corona, had little choice but to call it off. It was all over.

Fundora won in style to advance her undefeated pro record — a particularly painful reminder to the division as to just how much of a problem her power has become.

“I had to show a little movement,” Fundora said. “I showed I could box, that I could rock, and why I'm undisputed.”

The champ refused to name possible opponents for her next assignment but declared her intentions to drop a division to light flyweight. “I can [make 108 pounds],” she confirmed.

“Maybe the plans change, maybe someone catches my eye at 115. But as of right now, I’m enjoying the moment,” Fundora said.

“I want fans to go home and think, ‘That damn Fundora always gives knockouts.'”

Her recent run of form means fans can’t think any other way.

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