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Francisco 'Bandido' Vargas knocks down 'the wall' in California

When Francisco Bandido Vargas saw Rod Salka, his rival on Thursday night, go up in the ring, he could not believe the clothes he was wearing. A gown and shorts with bricks painted in blue and red and the phrase: America First (First United States) at the height of the belt, hinting at support for the idea of ​​Donald Trump, president of that country, to build a wall in the border with Mexico. Six rounds later, Vargas was in charge of "knocking down" that wall. The Mexican fiercely connected to Salka, who after receiving an intense punishment and did not go out to fight for the seventh round, decreeing the technical knockout. The truth I was surprised by the message I brought, I never expected that, but I tried to calm down and continue with my fight plan, "explained Vargas, former super featherweight champion of the World Boxing Council. I do not deny that it did give me a little courage, because it was an offensive message, and yes I think it helped me to give it a little more strength and with that courage, "he said. Despite his discomfort and that of his team for this detail, he said that things did not go beyond the action they had on the ring. We did not say anything, "said Bandido Vargas. "I respect him as a boxer, the truth is that he has a very complicated style that thanks to God I was able to decipher, and in the end, as if nothing else had happened. I greeted him, I said: 'Good fight', and everyone to his corner, although I did not like what he and his team did, "Vargas explained from the United States, where, he says, other than that, he receives a great deal of everybody.

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