Aside from the bouts already covered here on SaddoBoxing, it was a real busy weekend around the global fisticuff scene, with most of the action taking place on Friday but the more important action was on Saturday. We’ll cover it all, right here and now, with a little bit of Sunday thrown in for good…
Last night in Veracruz, Mexico, WBA Light Flyweight Champion Edgar Sosa retained his crown with a fourth round stoppage over challenger Roberto Carlos Leyva at Estadio Beto Avila. The bout started off slow but by the second frame, Sosa had finished studying and began fighting Leyva, pushing the faded former IBF Minimumweight titlist back with…
Bad Blood Grudge Match Reaches Boiling Point In LA ***With Slideshow*** Click for larger image © Jorge Garcia Vargas And Mayorga Make Weight, Cintron vs. Feliciano on the Undercard The ten year career of Fernando Vargas will come to a close tonight in a bad blood bout that could even eclipse the raw hate on…
WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto win the biggest fight of his career on Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden, retaining his title with a close unanimous decision over three weight world champion Shane Mosley. Cotto showed Mosley early on that it would take more than an edge in quickness to dissuade the determined…
At the Casino in Montreal, Quebec, local undefeated prospect Olivier Lontchi notched the biggest win of his career to date by handily outpointing former WBO Bantamweight Champion Cruz Carbajal to cage the vacant WBO NABO and NABA Super Bantam titles. Lontchi, 14-0-1 (6), took a big step up in competition to face Carbajal, 28-15-2 (24),…
IBF 122 lb Champion Steve Molitor was stretched the distance for the first time in five contests last night at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario when the 27 year old from Sarnia battled Thailand’s Fashan 3K Battery to a wide points win on an Allan Tremblay/Orion Sports promotion. Once again, it was Molitor’s patient application…
The Montreal boxing fraternity celebrated at that city’s Bell Center last night after challenger Lucian Bute delivered another razor sharp performance to annex the IBF Super Middleweight title from Colombia’s Alejandro Berrio by eleventh round stoppage. It was sheer punching power which had taken the 31 year old Berrio to the top of the heap…
The 135 lb steamroller that is Juan Diaz continued to move forward last night, grinding out another punishing victory to retain his WBA and WBO Lightweight titles and also gain the IBF crown by forcing Julio Diaz to quit on his stool after the eighth round at Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, IL. The IBF…
There was a spate of action last night in America and Puerto Rico and we start with Rolando Reyes’, 29-4-2 (19), eleven round dismantling of former WBC Lightweight Champ Stevie Johnston, 41-5-1 (18), at Coeur d’Alene Casino in Worley, Idaho to take the IBA title of “Lil But Bad”. 35 year old southpaw Johnston tried…
Last night on a big Don King promotion at Madison Square Garden, Jameel McCline almost erased his nearly man status by dropping WBC Interim Champion Samuel Peter in the second and then twice more in the third but the towering New Yorker couldn’t finish off the Nigerian Nightmare. Peter, 29-1 (22), recovered to cautiously box…
Light welterweight contender Mike Stewart of New Castle, DE ran into a roadblock on a Peltz Boxing card at The New Alhambra in Philadelphia last night in the form of Denver’s Robert Frankel, dropping a ten round unanimous decision. The 27 year old Frankel simply had just too much in the tank for Stewart, who…
A new top dog emerged in the middleweight division last night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City as ruling WBC and WBO Champion Jermain Taylor was gunned down by a gutsy Kelly Pavlik in the seventh round of a thrilling slugfest. Pavlik’s steady drive through the divisional rankings, highlighted by a brutal knockout of highly…