Aside from the big Pacquiao vs. Diaz card in Las Vegas, there was some good action in America this weekend starting off with the latest bout of Irish sensation John Duddy, who outpointed Charlie Howe at The Castle in Boston, MA.
Duddy, 25-0 (17), was coming off a horrific performance against Montreal based Tunisian fighter Walid Smichet in February and needed an impressive win. At 33 years of age with losses to the only name fighters that he had faced, Joey Gilbert and Cornelius Brundage, Howe, 17-5-2 (9), was handpicked for the purpose.
Not surprisingly, Duddy had little trouble practicing his arsenal against the Midwesterner, finding range to both the head and body with equal success with very little coming back in return.
Howe was hurt at times but the big hearted fighter never stopped trying against his more skilled foe, landing a few good shots here and there to keep Duddy from running roughshod over him.
After the bout ran it's ten round course, Duddy was awarded the victory on marks of 100-90 on all three scorecards. More...
There were two good cards in République française over the weekend and we start on Saturday's action at Salle L'Albanais in Rumilly where local man Sebastien Madani upset reigning French Light Middleweight Champion Alban Mothie over twelve rounds.
Madani followed up his WBC Mediterranean title winning effort in December with his 18th consecutive victory in front of a raging hometown crowd in this mountainous town in the French Alps, just 50 miles from Geneva, Switzerland.
Turning up in fantastic physical shape, Madani never let the champion into fight as he pressed Mothie and kept the Châtellerault man on the defensive for the entire bout despite Mothie's best efforts to reverse the tide.
After a cautious first round, the early part of the contest saw Madani force Mothie onto the backfoot behind a torrent of hooks and while the champion managed to slip most of the shots, there were a good many that found the mark.
The sixth frame saw Madani swarm over Mothie and hurt the champion, who had to draw upon his long experience to survive before backing off the challenger by round's end. More...
Last night at the characterful York Hall, Bethnal Green in London, England, Esham Pickering and Matthew Marsh slugged it out for the British Super Bantamweight title on a Hennessy Sports promoted fight night.
The champion Pickering was looking to win the Lonsdale Belt outright as he defended it a second time - this time to younger, less experienced opponent in the 25 year old Marsh.
On home-ground, Marsh, from West Ham, was wearing his usual claret and blue trunks. ‘Brown Sugar’ Pickering was sporting a skin-head haircut bearing a bleached blonde raised logo of "Jordan".
The contest gets off to a fast start and Marsh is keen to impress - getting straight to work on Pickering and looks to have taken the first round.
Pickering is under pressure in the opening minute of round two as Marsh unloads a number of shots backing, the champion onto the ropes. Using combinations and body-punches, Marsh looks to over-power Pickering, who sees out the end of the tough round.
Pickering leaves himself wide-open in round three, getting caught with more shots from his younger opponent. Marsh keeps focussed while adopting a ‘tight’ defence. There’s a ‘nick’ under the left eye of Pickering. More...
There were two good cards last night in Thailand and we commence proceedings with a big show in Ratchaburi, where 39 year old long-time WBO Asia Pacific Super Flyweight Champion Pramuansak "The Machine Gun" Posuwan, 43-1-1 (23), won his 14th contest on the bounce by stopping Filipino opponent Javier Malulan, 12-4 (7), in the eighth round.
Posuwan retains his crown for the seventh time during his second reign as WBO Asia Pacific titlist and hasn't lost since a failed bid to upset full WBO Champion Fernando Montiel in 2005.
On the undercard, PABA Super Fly beltholder Duangpetch Saengmorakot, 39-1-1 (15), outpointed Anthony Esmedina, 4-5-2 (0), in a non-title six rounder and veteran Samransak Singmanassak, 33-19-1 (26), won a six rounder against Albert Alcoy, 5-2-3 (2). More...
By Wellington Amadulu June 28th, 2008 All Boxing Results
Boxing mad East London in the Eastern Cape saw a big show last night at the city's famed Orient Theatre.
In a thrilling contest, IBO Minimumweight Champion Nkosinathi Joyi had to climb off the canvas before he could stave off and then finish the spirited challenge of Mexican titlist Sammy Gutierrez in the seventh round.
The Central American import went after Joyi from the start, putting on tremendous pressure in true Mexican style. The champion dealt with the adversity well, rocking the challenger with solid countershots but was down in the fifth from a perfectly placed body punch from Gutierrez.
Joyi beat the count and took advantage of the haste shown by Gutierrez, who resorted to winging big punches that the champion easily saw coming and avoided. More...
It was a massive night of fisticuffs last night Down Under and with so much action to choose from, it's difficult to know where to start!
But start we must and that takes us to the Sydney area where at the Catholic in Campbelltown, NSW, there was a big showdown at middleweight between IBO Champion Daniel Geale and challenger Geard Ajetovic.
Geale was coming off a masterful boxing performance last December against previously undefeated slugger Daniel "The Rock" Dawson to win the vacant IBO belt and but the Mt. Annan stylist was facing a tough challenge in this one.
Ajetovic, a native Serbian who has fought his entire career in England, had completed his last six bouts without a loss following a narrow disappointment to European Champ Christopher Canclaux in a non-title bout two years ago.
When the bout started, it was clear that Geale possessed the sharper skills and ring generalmanship, but the dangerous Ajetovic closed distance and badly the champion in the fifth round. More...
Mark ʽOak Treeʼ Brown put on an impressive show for his hometown fans in Salem, New Jersey on Saturday night, culminating in a second round knockout of Ralph ʽWild Wildʼ West of Louisville, Kentucky.
Brown, who weighed in at a lean 223 pounds, was clearly fired up and determined to add to his already excellent 12-1 (5) record. Right from the start he charged at his much larger opponent taking control throwing punch after punch without seeming to have much effect on the 254 pound Kentucky behemoth who just shrugged them off like they were annoying bugs. More...
On Saturday night at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England, Amir Khan successfully defended his Commonwealth Lightweight title by stopping tough Irish-Mancunian Michael Gomez, in round five of a grueling contest.
But it was never going to be an ‘easy’ fight for Khan and Gomez clearly ‘rattled’ the Bolton man, who suffered a knockdown following a left hook from Gomez in round two. Despite being knocked down himself in round one, big-hearted Gomez continued to walk forward in his usual ‘bullish’ manner.
And in true ‘Rocky’ style - stood fast as he took a number of punches from the Champion, I think he would have stood there all night if the referee hadn’t stopped it - such is the ‘fighting-never give-up’ attitude of Gomez.
Afterward, a calm and thoughtful Gomez admitted to feeling a bit ‘sluggish’ and was disappointed with his performance, but gave huge credit to Khan - who Gomez said had ‘great hand-speed’ but felt that Amir was a ‘vulnerable’ fighter.
That seems the general feeling of those close to, and not so close, to Khan, that he still had things to learn before going for a world-title. More...
Saturday night at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England, former British and WBU Super Feather Champ Michael Gomez gave Commonwealth Lightweight titlist Amir Khan a tremendous fight before being controversially stopped in the fifth round of a thrilling contest.
Gomez came out in his characteristically aggressive manner, surging forward behind the jab and forcing Khan onto the backfoot immediately. Khan attempted to pick off his opponent but Gomez bobbed and weaved his way inside, lashing the Bolton starlet to the body whenever close enough to do so.
Khan showed his quality early as well, dumping the Manchester hard man on the seat of his pants at the end of a multi-punch combination to the head at close quarters but Gomez was up at once, resuming his pressure as if the knockdown never happened.
The second frame saw Gomez cutting off the ring, forcing Khan to throw more punches in an attempt to stem the tide. As Gomez gained ground, he backed Khan onto the ropes and Amir let loose a blindingly fast flurry but the man born Michael Armstrong walked through it and unleashed a right hook, left hook combination to the head that made Khan go down on his knees from the force. More...
Germany's Arthur Abraham made a spectacular American debut last night at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida as the IBF Middleweight Champion ruthlessly belted out arch-rival Edison Miranda in the fourth round during a non-title rematch at 166 pounds. More...
Just three years and a half years since turning professional, Florida welterweight Andre Berto won the prestigious WBC title belt last night at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN but thoroughly outclassing opponent Miguel Angel Rodriguez on the way to banging out a seventh round TKO.
From the first bell, the 24 year old Berto peppered his 29 year old rival from Naucalpan, Mexico with a blazingly fast two-handed attack that Rodriguez had few answers for.
Berto forced the taller Rodriguez to fight on the inside and masterfully mixed uppercuts at short range coupled with spearing body shots before dropping back to fire off stunning lead right crosses and left hooks that rarely seemed to miss.
Rodriguez was rocked as early as the second round but the gritty Mexican never stopped trying until he was leveled by a Berto uppercut in the seventh.
It all came to an end for Rodriguez at 2:13 of the frame as he was canvassed again, prompting referee Laurence Cole to step in and call a halt to the action. More...
Showing no ill effects from his only career loss to date against Joe Calzaghe last November, super middleweight Mikkell Kessler turned in a good performance in front of a hometown crowd by stopping opponent Dimitri Sartison in the 12th and final round to annex the vacant WBA title last night at Bronby Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Germany based Sartison was giving away four inches in height to the Dane but showed considerable ring savvy by using good movement in the early going to nullify Kessler's advantages.
Sartison troubled the local man with his awkwardness and connected with looping shots that surprised Kessler but the native born Kazak's luck didn't last forever.
By the midway point in the fight, Kessler was beginning to dial in range but was then forced to hold off a Sartison rally in the seventh before regaining the initiative. More...
Last night at the Royal Watler Cruise Terminal In the Cayman Islands, heavyweight Eddie Chambers, 31-1 (17), bounced back from an IBF Eliminator loss to Alexander Povetkin in January by bouncing out opponent Raphael Butler, 31-5 (24), in the sixth round to retain the USBA crown.
Super middle Andre Ward, 16-0 (11), overcame early resistance to stop Jerson Ravelo, 18-3 (12), in eight as the former Olympic Gold Medal winner keeps his world title aspirations alive.
Ex-WBC Bantamweight Champion Wayne McCullough's, 27-7 (18), mercurial career came to an end as the 37 year old was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round against Juan Ruiz, 22-5 (7). More...
Sunday, at the Sutton Sports Centre in St. Helens, Merseyside, England - Steve Woods / VIP Boxing hosted another great afternoon of boxing action!
Blackpool boxer Brian Rose was victorious - scoring a clear points win over Belgium's Kobe Vandekerkhove in a six round light middleweight contest.
Roses's trainer, Bobby Rimmer, told SaddoBoxing this morning "Brian boxed brilliantly - I'm very pleased with how he performed! Vandekerkhove is a tough boxer but he couldn't get past Brian's jab and I think he just drew on one round.
"Bri got cut over his left eye in round three which needed about four stitches, but Brian wasn't bothered - he just gets on with it !"
Rose improves to 9 wins, no losses with two KOs and one draw while Vandekerkhove falls to 11-7-1 (5). More...
Highly touted Sheffield stylist Kell Brook, 17-0 (10), won the biggest fight of his career last night by stopping Welsh southpaw Barrie Jones, 15-2 (7), in the seventh round to win the vacant British Welterweight title at London's historic York Hall.
22 year old Brook has been dazzling audiences since turning pro four years ago and last night was no exception as he erased the height advantage of Jones with speed of hand and foot.
Jones had few answers for the quick handed Brook and by the seventh round, the Rhondda man could no longer adequately defend himself, forcing referee Micky Vann to stop the one way traffic in the seventh.
Also on the bill, another cagey boxer was in form as Anthony Small, 19-1 (13), retained his British Southern Area Light Middleweight strap by polishing off opponent George Katsimpas, 6-2 (5), in the eighth.
Lots of action south of the border this weekend and we start with a big show at Palacios de los Desportes in Mexico City where Edgar Sosa retained his WBC Light Flyweight title for the fifth time by stopping southpaw Takashi Kunishige in the eighth round on Saturday night.
Kunishige, 18-3-1 (2), came into the contest not having lost in over five years and drew with Japanese champion Munetsugu Kayo last time out but facing the WBC Champion proved to be a step too far for the 32 year old from Osaka.
It's a testament to the Japanese visitor's toughness that he lasted as long as he did against the superior skilled Mexico City man but his run came to an end when Sosa forced a referee stoppage at 1:39 of the eighth frame after dealing out much punishment.
On the undercard, NABF Flyweight titlist Adrian Hernandez, 13-0-1 (11), was held to a fifth round technical draw by challenger Eric Ortiz, 28-8-2 (18), a former WBC Light Flyweight Champion.
OPBF Light Flyweight strapholder and Filipino southpaw Juanito Rubillar, 46-10-7 (22), won a WBC title eliminator against Omar Nino Romero, 25-3-1 (11), via a 12 round split decision. More...
After a massive media buildup, the "Finally" PPV bill at the Isleta Casino in Albuquerque, NM was fought last night amid great fanfare for Women's Boxing.
In the main event, IFBA Light Middleweight Champ Holly Holm, 22-1-2 (6), proved just too big and skilled for challenger Mary Joe Sanders, 25-1 (8), as Holm won nearly every round to hand Sanders her first loss.
Wendy Rodriguez, 19-4-3 (3), won the vacant IFBA and IBA titles at minimumweight with a ten round split decision over Hollie Dunaway, 21-7 (10), in a rematch between the two.
Carina Moreno, 18-1 (5), defeated Eileen Olszewski, 5-1-1 (0), over ten rounds for the vacant IFBA Light Flyweight strap and Chevelle Hallback, 27-5-2 (11), outpointed Jeannine Garside, 7-1-1 (3), to cage the vacant IFBA Lightweight crown.
A superb clash of light heavyweight champions took place last night at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth, England as British titlist Tony Oakey and Commonwealth king Dean Francis went at it tooth and nail on a Frank Maloney promotion.
Francis dominated the first round as he picked off the always come-forward Oakey but the local Portsmouth battler found his focus in the second behind his legendary high workrate.
Oakey managed to cut Francis badly around the left eye and the bridge of the nose and continued to surge forth behind a two-fisted assault that kept the big punching Commonwealth Champion on the defensive.
By the fifth, the light hitting but persistent efforts of Oakey looked to have taken it's toll on Francis as the bigger man from Basingstoke was becoming unglued and unable to keep the British Champion off.
But a desperate Francis finds range with the right hand in the sixth and rips Oakey with shots that slow the stocky local man down. Oakey shakes off the punishment over the seventh and eighth frames but is finding it harder to land, although he does manage to cut Francis around the right eye. More...
WBA Super Feather kingpin Edwin Valero and WBC Bantamweight Champion Hozumi Hasegawa were in action at the Nihon Budokan in Tokyo on Thursday night and both retained their titles.
Valero, 24-0 (24), kept his magnificent knockout streak alive with a seventh round pasting of former Japanese Lightweight titlist Takehiro Shimada, 22-4-1 (15).
Shimada used his considerable experience to evade the brunt of the Venezuelan southpaw's firepower and was only down by two rounds on one of the scorecards but the 36 year's luck ran out at 1:55 of the seventh frame when Valero found the target with a crisp right hook, straight left combination to the head.
Valero retains his title for the fourth time and continues his campaign to engage Manny Pacquiao in a high profile showdown but the multi-weight Filipino legend is on a trajectory to face world light welter champ Ricky Hatton later this year. More...
Last night at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall, Kelly Pavlik extended his domination over the middleweight division as the lanky Ohio man stopped the challenge of Wales' Gary Lockett in the third round to keep possession of his WBC and WBO titles.
The come forward aggression of Pavik proved too much for his challenger from across the Atlantic to defend against as Lockett had to take a knee twice in the second round in an attempt to stave off the inevitable.
But Lockett's run ended in the third when he was canvassed and trainer Enzo Calzaghe called a halt to the one way traffic.
Pavlik improves to 34-0 (30) while Lockett loses for the first time in 14 bouts to fall to 30-2 (21).
In a battle of big punchers, WBO Super Bantamweight Champion Daniel Ponce De Leon, 34-2 (30), of Mexico was shockingly stopped in the first round by challenger Juan Manuel Lopez, 22-0 (20).
British and Commonwealth Super Featherweight Champion Kevin Mitchell, 27-0 (20), was on the bill and the Londoner stopped veteran Colombian southpaw Walter Estrada, 34-6 (23), in five rounds.
