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Aside from world super flyweight kingpin Vic Darchinyan's masterful dismantling of Jorge Arce in Anaheim and Andre Ward's victory over Henry Buchanan in Lemoore, there were two good bills in the states and we kick off this report at the Activity Center in Maywood, CA where welterweight Jesus Soto Karass continued his impressive run of victories on Friday evening.

The 26 year old Los Angeles resident originally from Los Mochis, Mexico, dominated opponent Carson Jones over ten rounds, canvassing the Oklahoma native twice in the third before losing a point for rabbit-punching.

Soto Karass now has an unbeaten streak of 15 bouts after suffering three consecutive losses in 2004-5 and improves to 23-3-3 (16), while Jones sees his own five bout win streak go down in flames, falling to 18-7-1 (10). More...

Professional ballroom-style boxing returns to The Riveredge Hotel and Restaurant complex in Reading, Pennsylvania on Saturday, September 13 with an exciting lineup of rising young boxing prospects.

The main event will feature undefeated Reading heavyweight Travis "GW Hope" Kauffman, 12-0 (9), against Josh "Griz" Gutcher, 18-9, of Iowa in a eight round bout. After a fourteen month layoff, Kauffman returned to the ring in June and has scored two knockouts since then, both within two rounds. He plans to resume his climb up the heavyweight rankings. More...

Seven bouts out of a scheduled eight went off as planned on Friday night, June 6, 2008, at the sovereign Performing Arts Center, in Reading, Pennsylvania promoted by Marshall Kauffman and Top Rank. Spanish channel Telefutura provided commentary in English and Spanish.

Attendance was spartan at the fight card as high school graduation was taking place in downtown Reading at the same time. Welterweight contender Kermit Cintron was in attendance at the fight card to witness the professional debut of his brother and sparring partner, Harold. Also in attendance was former three time New Jersey Golden Gloves champion Michael Torres, of Newark, currently 11-0 (6) as a professional junior welterweight and being trained by former 1960’s light heavyweight contender Johnny Persol (who beat Eddie Cotton, Harold Johnson and Bobo Olson).

A scheduled bout between Lancaster, Pennsylvania light middleweight Manuel Guzman 6-5-1 (2) and New Jersey’s Alex Perez 9-0 (6) was scratched, as Guzman instead took a different fight on Wednesday night at the Aviator Sports Arena in Brooklyn, New York, and upset previously undefeated hometown favorite, Tommy Rainone 11-1 (3) by a four round split decision.

Promoter Marshall Kauffmann explained in an interview that he is working on a fight card for September that will include a rematch between Guzman and Jorge Delgado, and will include his son Travis Kauffman, now 10-0 (7) as a heavyweight, on the card. Kauffman is billing his son as ‘The Great White Hope’ following the likes of Jim Jeffries, Rocky Marciano, Duane Bobick, Gerry Cooney, and Tommy ‘The Duke’ Morrison. Travis is now hard in training in California.

In the main event of the evening, middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio of Mexico moved a step closer to a title shot against World Middleweight Champion Kelly Pavlik with a fifth round stoppage of fading Alfredo Cuevas. Rubio, now 42-4-1 (37), fighting out of Georgetown, Texas, hardly had a workout with Cuevas, 26-10-1 (17), fighting out of Chicago. More...

Reading, PA will host a weekend of fistic warfare on June 6 and 7 at the historic Sovereign Performing Arts Center. Although the nation's largest and best World War II Reenactment Weekend will be taking place this same weekend on the nearby Reading Airport grounds, bombs will also be flying in the boxing ring in downtown Reading.

On Friday June 6, Top Rank Promotions, in association with King's Promotions, presents a night of professional boxing featuring heavy hitters and knockout artists in an event to be televised live by TeleFutura. More...