Fight Results
WBA Featherweight kingpin Chris John, 44-0-1 (22), went on the road last night for the third time over the course of his nine title defenses and the 29 year old Indonesian stylist outpointed local sensation Hiroyuki Enoki, 27-1-2 (19), after twelve rounds. 29 year old Enoki came into the bout as the OPBF titlist and…
It was night full of fireworks last evening at the Morongo Casino in Cabazon, CA with Welterweight Saul Alvarez stepping up against veteran Larry Mosley and pulling out a victory in a difficult fight. Just 18 years of age, Guadalajara teenager Alvarez, 22-0-1 (15), had difficulty with the handspeed and sheer skill of the underrated…
Thursday night at the Northern Quest Casino in Airway Heights, WA saw IBO Feather Champ Cristobal Cruz add the vacant IBF crown to his collection with a hard fought split decision victory over Orlando Salido. In a battle of tough luck Mexican veterans, Cruz, 37-11-1 (23), of Tijuana, managed to outwork Ciudad Obregon veteran Salido,…
Carina “La Reina” Moreno retains her WBC and WIBA strawweight titles with a TKO victory over a game Judi Esquibel at the Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore Ca. In the opening round, Esquibel used her lateral movement to escape the pressure of Moreno. Making adjustments, Moreno came into the second round with a game plan…
© Tom Hogan / Golden Boy Promotions Bernard Hopkins continues to defy the restrictions of time that mere mortals in the boxing world are subject to as the 43 year old former World Middleweight Champion took current WBC/WBO Middleweight titlist Kelly Pavlik back to the woodshed last night for an old school boxing lesson at…
Two world champions saw action at Tokyo’s Yoyogi First Gym on Thursday night and when the dust finally settled both WBC Bantamweight titlist Hozumi Hasegawa and WBC Featherweight ruler Oscar Larios each kept their belts in two very different fights. Mexico’s Alejandro Valdez came into his challenge of Hasegawa not having lost a bout over…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Last night at the O2 Arena In Berlin, Germany, Vitali Klitschko regained the WBC Heavyweight title that he never lost in the ring by stopping Samuel Peter after seven rounds of combat. Peter began the bout pressing Klitschko but was taking punishment from the taller man’s range-finding left hand,…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing It was a story of youth vs. experience last night at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, NV and this time, youth won out as Chad Dawson proved to have too much in the arsenal for veteran Antonio Tarver to handle over the course of twelve rounds. Dawson had…
Less than four months after his controversial disqualification against Francisco Lorenzo, super featherweight Humberto Soto captured the vacant WBC title with a smashing effort against Gamaliel Diaz last night at Auditorio Centenario in Torreon, Mexico. Having already crushed Rocky Juarez’s unbeaten record in 2005 and chased then WBO titlist Joan Guzman all over the ring…
After a long career, first at light welter before dropping down a weight class, Jon Thaxton won the vacant European Lightweight title with a third round knockout of Spain’s Juan Carlos Diaz Melero last night at The Showground in Norwich, England. Despite Melero having been a European Champ previously, Thaxton had fought the better competition…
The Gamboa mania continues! In his second appearance on HBO’s Boxing After Dark, Yuriorkis Gamboa once more thrilled the audience with a spectacular knockout victory over previously unbeaten Marcos Ramirez, now 25-1 (16). “El Ciclon de Guantanamo†was knocked down by an elbow shot in the first round. Gamboa recovered quickly and came back to…
Undefeated junior middleweight Alfredo “Perro” Angulo scored his tenth consecutive knockout victory tonight, recording a 10th round TKO over Andrey Tsurkan in a battle of top 10 contenders. The fight was the star attraction of “Night of the Rising Stars II,” the tripleheader broadcast live from Pechanga Resort & Casino on HBO Boxing After Dark.