*WBC super bantamweight champ Larios defends title*

LOS ANGELES (Ticker) - Oscar Larios has done his part. The WBC super bantamweight champion from Mexico recorded a 10th-round technical knockout of Thailand's Napapol Kiatisakchokchai on

Saturday at the Grand Olympic Auditorium night and has positioned himself for a lucrative payday. Larios (50-3-1, 35 KOs) dropped Kiatisakchokchai with 50 seconds left in the 10th round and continued to batter the challenger until referee Marcos Rosales stopped the fight with 34 seconds left in the round. Larios dominated throughout, using his hand and foot speed to land the more devastating punches. Kiatisakchokchai (22-2) fought back in the fifth, landing some effective body blows, but Larios regained control behind an effective jab. "I was very surprised by his resistance," Larios said through an interpreter. "I knew I could get to him." The fourth title defense this year for the 27-year-old set up a possible unification showdown with IBF champion Manny Pacquiao, who is coming off an impressive victory over Marco Antonio Barrera. "I would love to fight Manny Pacquiao to unify the title," Larios said. On the undercard, Javier Jauregui recorded an 11th-round TKO of Levander Johnson and captured the vacant IBF lightweight title. Jauregui dropped Johnson with two seconds left in the fifth and had him in trouble until tiring in the eighth. The 30-year-old Jauregui (47-10-2, 33 KOs) regrouped in the 10th and floored Johnson with a left hook and straight right. Six seconds after the bell rang for the 11th, the referee halted the bout amid protests from Johnson (32-4-2). The belt was vacated by Paul Spadafora. Jose Navarro improved to 19-0 with a dominant unanimous decision over Reynaldo Hurtado in a junior bantamweight title eliminator. Navarro, a 2000 Olympian who grew up in East Los Angeles, has gone 12 rounds in each of his last three bouts. The 22-year-old southpaw won by scores of 120-108, 117-111, 116-112. Hurtado had a 13-bout winning streak snapped in his United States debut and fell to 36-5-1.