Super middleweight prospect Bektemir Melikuziev stays unbeaten with an easy win

Super middleweight prospect Bektemir Melikuziev stayed unbeaten with an easy win over extremely short-notice opponent Oscar Cortes tonight in Anaheim, California.

Uzbekistan’s Melikuziev (5-0, 4 KO) is a fast-rising and ambitious prospect, training with Joel Diaz in California, a 23-year-old, hard-hitting southpaw who wants to fight for a world title by the end of the year.

Cortes (27-6, 14 KO) replaced Marco Antonio Periban in this fight as of yesterday, not even weighing in until today, and the fight was moved up to a 175-pound limit to accommodate him.