Overview

• Alex Montiel, known as El Escorpión Dorado, released a video rejecting his split-decision loss to Franco Escamilla and said a draw would have been fair.
• Montiel said he trained five to six days a week with regular sparring, cited a roughly 15‑kilogram weight gap, and argued he connected more punches and won the later rounds.
• He pointed to Escamilla’s nosebleed and facial marks as evidence of damage and called a midfight count against him exaggerated, while noting limited visibility from his mask.
• A clip of Montiel accidentally striking his own face went viral, prompting David Faitelson to joke on X that trainer Nacho Beristáin should patent the move, which Montiel answered by invoking Faitelson’s 2003 incident with Cuauhtémoc Blanco.
• Faitelson said promoter Miguel Ángel Fox offered him a fight with Escorpión Dorado and indicated he would box Blanco for sufficient pay, as organizers and media discuss a possible Supernova return in 2026.