Fight Results
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 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, super featherweight Marco Antonio Barrera fought to overcome nemesis Manny Pacquiao in a rematch, but the 33 year old Mexican also found himself contending with the withering effects of an eighteen year career and dropped a unanimous decision to the celebrated Filipino southpaw. In the early…
Samuel Peter, 29-1 (22): When you were down did you think you were done? “No, no. I am the champion and I needed to defend my belt. When I went down I knew I had to stand up. I broke my left hand during training camp and both of my hands were hurting me tonight….
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…
Reigning British Lightweight titlist Jon Thaxton walked through a wall of leather from challenger Dave Stewart last night on a Hennessy Sports promotion to ultimately ground down his stablemate in a bloody display of grit and determination. The towering Scotsman Stewart repeatedly picked off the far shorter champion through the first seven rounds as Thaxton…
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…
Click for larger image © Carlos Baeza / Thompson boxing Yonnhy Perez fights better than he spells. The talented, undefeated bantamweight with the unusually spelled first name – it is pronounced “Johnny†â€“ improved to 14-0 with 11 knockouts with a dominant, impressive fourth-round stoppage over comebacking Alexander Fedorov (18-4-1, 10 KOs) Friday on “ShoBox:…
Joseph Agbeko scores upset to win IBF Bantamweight Title! In a dominating performance, WBC Light Heavyweight Champion “Bad” Chad Dawson, 25-0 (17), stopped late sub Epifanio Mendoza, 28-5-1 (24), in the fourth round at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA. The champion came into the fight and did what was expected of him by winning…
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…
In front of 4,000 fans last night at the Ewe Arena in Oldenberg, Germany former WBA Heavyweight titlist Nikolay Valuev resumed his career after suffering his first professional loss and world title to Ruslan Chagaev back in April. The seven foot “Russian Giant” squared off with six foot five inch Canadian southpaw, Jean-Francois Bergeron of…
Wayne Elcock held his long awaited coming out party at the Skydome Arena in Coventry, England on Friday night as the Birmingham middleweight outboxed the highly decorated Howard Eastman in an entertaining scrap to annex the British title. Elcock came into the clash as the clear underdog, having failed in a previous British title bid…
Escobedo wins NABO Featherweight belt! In just over a month since defeating Rey Bautista in the Second Annual Golden Boy Promotions Boxing World Cup, WBO and IBA Junior Featherweight Champion Daniel Ponce de Leon, 33-1 (30), needed just five rounds to take out the rugged Columbian Reynaldo Lopez, 27-6-2 (19), at the Morongo Casino in…