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By Al Bernstein August 18th, 2009 All Boxing Articles
 This weekend, I hosted a pay per view telecast headlined by the WBA Interim Super Flyweight title match, featuring Nonito Donaire vs. Rafael Concepcion.
Everything that happened in the days before the match and in the first round suggested that Donaire, a rising star and potential superstar, was going to provide a dominant win that would further market himself.
Concepcion was rumored to be having terrible making weight, and, in fact came in a whopping 4 ½ pounds over the 115 pound limit. That did not bode well for his conditioning for the fight and it made an already motivated Donaire more angry and he vowed to beat Concepcion no matter what his weight.
Concepcion was fined part of his purse and Donaire received half that fine—but the Donaire camp did not demand that Concepcion try hard to make the 115 pounds. They were worried about a replay of the Joan Guzman-Nate Campbell fight of last year, when Guzman came in over the weight and tried to lose the weight, but was too weak to fight.
This pay per view had been set up a star vehicle for Donaire and Nonito and his management did not want his fight canceled.
The fight went on and true to his word, Donaire came out smoking. He was so dominant in the first two minutes that it looked like a monstrous mismatch. Conception had lost the year before to Jorge Arce in a war and Arce at that point had somewhat diminished skills.
If Donaire fought Arce he would be a prohibitive favorite. So, common sense told us that Concepcion was not in Donaire’s league—and round one was proving the point. More...
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By Boxing Press December 20th, 2008 All Press Releases
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In preparation for their bout tonight at El Palacio de los Deportes in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the main event fighters weighed in yesterday.
WBA Lightweight Title Eliminator
Ameth Diaz: 134.25 lb
Joan Guzman: 135 lb More...
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By Robert Brizel October 17th, 2008 All Boxing Articles
Miguel Angel Cotto
32-0 welterweight champ Cotto backed away from Margarito when the punishment became severe.
Amir Khan
Popular but overhyped Khan’s 18-0 lightweight record fell to Breidis Prescott in only 54 seconds. Britain had to relive Jerry Quarry vs. Jack Bodell all over again.
Marcos Ramirez
Ramirez blew a 25-0 record against Yuriorkis Gamboa and was knocked down twice in the second round and appeared to have been ‘quick counted’ out at nine by the Germans.
Andrey Tsurkan
Tsurkan could not get out of the twelfth round in his light middleweight ‘step up’ bout against unbeaten Alfredo Angulo and took a good pasting along the way.
First Arslan
Beaten in his native Germany, Arslan lost his WBA Cruiserweight title to veteran Guillermo Jones, getting stopped in the tenth round. More...
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By Richard Eberline September 14th, 2008 All Boxing Results
Citing dehydration, Joan Guzman pulled out of his challenge to triple world lightweight champion Nate Cambell, but the show still went on at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, MS.
Upgraded to the headlining bout, light welter Timothy Bradley, 23-0 (11), didn't disappoint, pounding out a big win against Edner Cherry, 24-6-2 (12), to retain the WBC Light Welterweight title.
Bradley showed good skill in outclassing Cherry, dropping the Florida based lightweight in the eighth before cruising to a 119-109, 118-109 and 117-110 unanimous decision win.
Cherry came to fight and had his moments, rattling Bradley on more than one occasion but didn't have enough pop in the punches to improve upon his work.
In a WBC featherweight title eliminator, Elio Rojas, 20-1 (13), shed the prospect tag by posting a wide points decision against seasoned veteran Hector Velazquez, 50-12-2 (35).
Light middleweight Luca Messi, 33-7-1 (11), won an eight rounder against Anthony Bowman, 9-31-2 (2), and lightweight Anges Adjaho, 24-1 (14), won a fifth round technical decision against Jesus Salvador Perez, 25-21-3 (14).
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By Boxing Press September 8th, 2008 All Press Releases
In a terrific fight in the second-half of an excellent world championship doubleheader, IBF/WBO/WBA lightweight champion Nate Campbell, 32-5-1 (25), of Jacksonville, Fla., will make his first defense against undefeated two-division world champion Joan Guzman, 28-0 (17), of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008, live on Showtime Championship Boxing at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast.
Unbeaten WBC super lightweight champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley, 22-0 (11), of Palm Springs , Calif. , will make his initial defense against Edner “Cherry Bomb” Cherry, 24-5-2 (12), of Wauchula , Fla. , in the co-feature. More...
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