# Orobio Roars Into Contention With Third-Round Stoppage of Cedeno in Montreal Source: SportsBriefly (https://sportsbriefly.com) Canonical URL: https://sportsbriefly.com/en/boxing/orobio-roars-into-contention-with-third-round-stoppage-of-cedeno-in-montreal-202 Language: en Published: 2026-11-13T15:04:10.671+00:00 Updated: 2026-11-13T15:04:10.717881+00:00 > Jhon Orobio stopped unbeaten Hendri Cedeno in the third round in Montreal, moving to 20-0 with 18 knockouts. ## TL;DR - Jhon Orobio stopped unbeaten Hendri Cedeno in the third round in Montreal, moving to 20-0 with 18 knockouts. - Orobio floored Cedeno in the first and third rounds before referee Martin Forest halted the fight at 1:54 of round three. - The Colombian retained his WBA and WBC Continental Americas junior welterweight titles in his first main event on DAZN. - Erik Bazinyan returned from a 26-month layoff to stop Steven Butler in the 10th round of the co-feature. ## Key points - Jhon Orobio stopped unbeaten Hendri Cedeno in the third round in Montreal, moving to 20-0 with 18 knockouts. - Orobio floored Cedeno in the first and third rounds before referee Martin Forest halted the fight at 1:54 of round three. - The Colombian retained his WBA and WBC Continental Americas junior welterweight titles in his first main event on DAZN. - Erik Bazinyan returned from a 26-month layoff to stop Steven Butler in the 10th round of the co-feature. MONTREAL — Jhon Orobio needed less than three rounds to turn his first main event into a statement. The Colombian super lightweight floored Hendri Cedeno in the opening round, dropped him again in the third, and forced referee Martin Forest to step in at 1:54 of the third round on Thursday night at the Casino de Montréal, handing the previously unbeaten Dominican Republic fighter his first professional defeat and keeping his WBA and WBC Continental Americas junior welterweight titles. The finish, on the Eye of the Tiger card shown live on DAZN, was as emphatic as it was one-sided. Orobio, who now stands at 20-0 with 18 knockouts, walked through Cedeno's early power, took control with a sharp double jab, and never let his opponent settle into the scheduled 10-round fight. ![A boxer in red tries to land a punch against his opponent in the ring](https://api.sportsbriefly.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/api/1794582230181-x6s2ix-boxing-inside1-2026-11-13-evening.jpg) Cedeno, who falls to 16-1 with 12 knockouts, had arrived in Montreal with a dangerous record of his own. He had stopped 12 of his first 16 opponents and held a regional WBO title, but he had not fought for more than 18 months, since a sixth-round stoppage of Idalberto Umara in April 2025. The long layoff showed almost immediately. Orobio traded power shots with him in the first round and walked straight through them, and a right hook off a double jab put Cedeno on the canvas close to the bell at the end of the round. Cedeno survived the count and made it to his corner, and he gathered himself in the second round as Orobio measured him. Midway through the third, Orobio caught him with another right hook for a second knockdown. Cedeno beat the count again, but Orobio went straight back to work, landing a left hand in the follow-up barrage and pouring on punches along the ropes until Forest waved the fight off. Cedeno stayed on his feet after rising, yet he was still taking punishment, and there was no point in letting him absorb more. He protested the stoppage, but the ending had already been written by the two knockdowns that came before it. ![Two boxers contest a bout at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires](https://api.sportsbriefly.com/storage/v1/object/public/media/api/1794582246196-n1kpaf-boxing-inside2-2026-11-13-evening.jpg) For Orobio, the night was about more than a 20th win. The 22-year-old, who moved to Montreal three years ago and is trained by Canada's highly respected Marc Ramsay, had been nominated twice as Ring Magazine Prospect of the Year, in 2024 and 2025, without ever quite breaking through to the wider public. Headlining a DAZN card against another unbeaten fighter was the assignment his promoters had been building toward, and he passed it in the most convincing way possible, with his sixth consecutive stoppage victory. Orobio had already stopped Antonio Moran, Jonathan Montrel and Yomar Álamo on his climb through the rankings, and he is already ranked seventh in the world by both the WBC and the WBA, and 12th by the IBF. After the fight, he thanked the crowd and his team in French, then switched to Spanish to speak to his family and supporters watching in Colombia. "I'm very happy, and I'll keep working hard. There's more to come!" he said. His message to the rest of the division was just as direct. "I've sent a message to the entire division regarding what's going to happen in the next fight. I want to show everyone who the best is. I'm going to take on the top fighters in the division," Orobio promised. The junior welterweight division is one of boxing's deepest, and a 22-year-old with 18 stoppages in 20 fights, a proven ability to carry his power into a main event, and top-10 rankings with two of the four sanctioning bodies is exactly the kind of fighter the established names will soon have to deal with. The quick finish against Cedeno makes a strong case for matching him next with an experienced junior welterweight who can drag him into the later rounds and test whether his power and composure hold up when a fight goes long. The co-feature delivered a comeback story of its own. Erik Bazinyan, fighting for the first time in 26 months since Jaime Munguia stopped him in September 2024, dominated longtime promotional stablemate Steven Butler and stopped him 22 seconds into the 10th and final round of their super middleweight bout. Bazinyan, now 33-1-1 with 24 knockouts, went to Butler's body in the fourth, hurt him with a right hand late in the fifth, and switched to southpaw at times to find openings with both hands. A left hand sent Butler down around the bell to end the ninth, although referee Junior Padullo ruled it was no knockdown. When the 10th-round bell rang, Butler came out on shaky legs, Bazinyan landed a trio of shots, Butler took a knee, and Padullo waved it off after Butler rose before the count of 10. Butler, who falls to 38-7-1 with 32 knockouts, had taken the fight on short notice after Lenar Perez withdrew with an injury, and the bout had already been postponed twice. It was his second straight stoppage defeat following his seventh-round loss to Edgar Berlanga last July, and Eye of the Tiger promoter Camille Estephan had suggested Butler retire before the fight, only to make the matchup out of respect for his long career with the promotion. Elsewhere on the card, Avery Martin Duval stopped Damian Wrzesinski in the fourth round of their junior welterweight bout, and Canadian Olympic medallist Wyatt Sanford won every round on all three scorecards, 80-72, in an eight-round unanimous decision over Gabriel Jimenez. He roared after the stoppage, the sold-out Casino de Montréal roared back, and a prospect became a contender in nine minutes of work. Mentions: Jhon Orobio, Hendri Cedeno, Casino de Montréal, Eye of the Tiger, DAZN, WBA, WBC, Erik Bazinyan, Steven Butler, Jaime Munguia, Marc Ramsay, Avery Martin Duval, Wyatt Sanford, Gabriel Jimenez, Montreal, junior welterweight, Martin Forest, Antonio Moran, Dominican Republic, Colombia ## Sources - [boxingnews24.com](https://www.boxingnews24.com/2026/11/jhon-orobio-drops-hendri-cedeno-twice-in-third-round-tko/) - [nyfights.com](https://nyfights.com/boxing/jhon-orobio-roars-knockout-win-thursday/) - [dazn.com](https://www.dazn.com/en-US/news/boxing/keys-to-victory-jhon-orobio-vs-hendri-cedeno-fight-preview-fight-analysis/1gxut69z31xok1m1mlor5961rs) - [theboxinghour.com](https://theboxinghour.com/2026/11/early-results-from-montreal-14/)