Highly-touted Kazakh Bek Nurmaganbet scored a brutal Knockout of the Year contender in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night.Nurmaganbet left Mexico’s Marcos Vazquez lying motionless under the bottom rope after detonating two short hooks in the dying embers of the first round.Nurmaganbet made quick work of Vazquez on Saturday night in RiyadhX / DAZNBoxingIt marked the heavy-handed super middleweights sixth win inside the opening stanza and improved his unblemished record to 16-0.Nurmaganbet has long been considered a name to watch out for at 168lbs and he proved what all the hype was about on the biggest of stages, competing on his teammate Canelo Alvarez‘s undercard for his WBC super middleweight title tilt against Christian Mbilli.The writing had been on the wall early doors as Nurmaganbet repeatedly rocked back Vazquez’s head with a ramrod jab.Nurmaganbet then sent Vazquez tumbling to the canvas midway through the first with a glancing blow to the top of the head.Vazquez regained his footing, but Nurmaganbet didn’t let him off the hook.Living up to his moniker, ‘Bek The Bully’ walked down his adversary and closed the show with some heavy shots to bring the ‘Mexico vs the World tally’ to 2-1 to the foreign fighters.Earlier in the night, Brayan Leon of Cuba had eeked a frenetic curtain jerker against Hector Aguirre on points.Emiliano Rojo then stepped up to tie the scoring for Mexico by blowing away Flavius Biea of Romania inside four rounds.All three prelim winners were representing Team Canelo, with Eddy Reynoso at the helm.The legendary Mexican trainer will be cornering a total of five fighters tonight, including, of course, his long-time student in the main event.View Tweet: https://x.com/hashtag/CaneloMbilli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwCanelo looks to pick up one of the four pieces of undisputed super middleweight puzzle that he dropped to Terence Crawford last September.The Mexican superstar has not set foot in the ring since the crushing defeat for various reasons.Canelo was first sidelined for a stretch after undergoing surgery on a lingering elbow injury.His usual Mexican Independence Day Weekend slot (September 12) was then pushed back to Halloween so Canelo could tend to personal matters.Keen not to slip back into another lull in activity, Canelo is eyeing a return to the ring in February providing he gets his hand raised tonight.Watch Boxing on DAZN*If you click a link in this boxout, we will earn affiliate revenueSign up to DAZN to access the definitive subscription for boxing fans.Upgrade to DAZN Ultimate from just £24.99/month, guaranteeing access to 185+ fights annually, a minimum of 12 pay-per-views at no extra cost, as well as every Lega Serie A match and other elite football access.Alternatively, DAZN Standard is just £15.99/month, with the caveat you will have to pay for pay-per-view events.Click here to sign up.