There were two excellent fights last night in the hotly anticipated bantamweight tournament from the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington with the favored boxer in each bout coming up on the losing end. Yhonny Perez and Joseph Agbeko rematched their IBF title clash of October, 2009 in which Perez …
Read More »Boxing Result: Mijares Unseats Rosas For IBF Belt In Mexico
Last night, Cristian Mijares returned to the light flyweight ranks for the first time in over two years, taking away the IBF title of Juan Alberto Rosas at Auditorio Municipal in Torreon, Mexico. The 29 year old former WBC/WBA champ had campaigned as a top level bantamweight since 2009 but …
Read More »Boxing Result: Mundine KO’d By Wood In Australia
In one of the biggest upsets in Aussie boxing history, light middleweight world title contender Anthony Mundine was knocked out in five rounds by the far less experienced Garth Wood in a bout held at middleweight on Wednesday at Acer Arena in Homebush, Australia. Former two-time WBA super middleweight champion …
Read More »Boxing Result: Rhodes, Vassell Win In Manchester
Ryan Rhodes and Denton Vassell both scored impressive inside the distance on Hatton Promotions Christmas dinner bash at Manchester’s Palace Hotel on Saturday. Local fighter Vassell stretched his unbeaten winning record to 16 stopping Brazilian Welson Alves de Oliveira in the third round. The South American held his own in …
Read More »Boxing Result: WBC Champ Soto Defeats Antillon In Firefight
WBC lightweight champion Humberto Soto had his second consecutive difficult defense, pounding out a very close unanimous decision over Urbano Antillon at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA. Antillon produced the best performance of his career, erasing memories of his KO loss to Miguel Acosta last year for the Interim …
Read More »Boxing Result: Burns Decisions Evensen For WBO Title In Scotland
Last night at Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, WBO super feather champ Ricky Burns made his first title defense, outpointing challenger Andreas Evensen. Going into the contest, Burns had far more experience on paper than the challenger, who was coming up from limited experience at featherweight and this almost spelled …
Read More »Boxing Result: Andre Ward Defeats Sakio Bika In WBC Title Defense
© Rich Hundley III / Showtime Boxing In non Super Six action at the Oracle Arena in Oakland California, Andre Ward defended his WBA Super Middleweight belt against tough Sakio Bika, a fighter who has a reputation of being avoided due to his wild and rough fighting style. Bika, who …
Read More »Boxing Result: Carl Froch Handles Arthur Abraham With Ease
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Last evening was another great night of fights among the 168lb elite. First up in Helsinki, Finland’s Hartwall Arena was Carl Froch facing Arthur Abraham in his quest to advance into the next round of the Showtime Super Six Tournament. As an added bonus, …
Read More »Boxing Result: Juan Manuel Marquez Halts Michael Katsidis In Vegas War
In a thrilling turn of the tides lightweight dual title clash, Juan Manuel Marquez bested Michael Katsidis in a genuine Las Vegas war at MGM Grand. Marquez started off sharply punishing Katsidis with crisp counters until the Australian broke through the champion’s tight defense and floored Marquez hard in the …
Read More »Boxing Result: Vazquez Retains IBF Crown With Victory Over Dominquez
There was good old fashioned Mexican action last night at the Arena in Tijuana as Miguel Vazquez kept hold of his IBF lightweight belt in dominant fashion. Vazquez had put the title in harm’s way for the first time since securing the IBF trophy in a decision win over Ji …
Read More »Boxing Result: Ennis Stops Lares To Win NABF Title
Farah “The Quiet Storm” Ennis started off Boxing’s biggest weekend in Atlantic City with a bang as he remained undefeated and captured the NABF Super Middleweight championship with a seven round beat down of Victor Lares that highlighted a big seven bout card dubbed Battle II at Harrah’s Resort & …
Read More »Boxing Result: Sergio Martinez Stops Paul Williams In Rematch Shocker
WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez won his hotly anticipated rematch with Paul Williams in dominant fashion last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. The first time these two met, both were on the canvas in the initial frame before continuing a 12 round slugfest that saw former WBO welter kingpin …
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