Fight Results
The heavyweight double-header held on Saturday night at the Max Schmeling Halle in Germany yielded some surprising results. In the main event, undefeated Russian giant Nicolai Valuev halted Swedish contender Attila Levin in just three rounds. For a fighter of seven feet and over 300-pounds in weight, Valuev’s technical limitations have been scrutinized, but he…
Saturday night in Montreal, Quebec in Canada, middleweight contender Joachim Alcine restated his claim as the dominant Canadian middleweight fighter by stopping the much more seasoned Carlos Bojorquez in seven rounds. Taking place at the Montreal Casino, it was a fight card that showcased several of quebec’s leading talents. Before we come to the other…
The following is a final tally of all of the boxing action that took place in America on Friday night. Firstly, in an important light heavyweight contest, Eric Harding took a twelve-round decision win over fellow contender David Telesco. Women’s champion Laila Ali remained unbeaten and gathered here twentieth win by stopping Cassandra Geigger in…
Friday night in Manchester, England, former WBU super featherweight champion Michael Gomez saw his career upended once again by a relatively unknown fighter in Argentinean Javier Alvarez. Gomez, who has spent much of his time challenging Scottish fighters Alex Arthur and Scott Harrison in the press, has had a habit of underperforming on the big…
Once again, former world champion Wayne McCullough gave it his all in a world championship fight but came up short, this time against WBC super bantamweight champion Oscar Larios. They went at each other virtually non-stop for the majority of the twelve-round fight, but in the end, Larios proved to be just too much for…
“I want De La Hoya next!”-Zab Judah. Zab “Super” Judah mounted a masterful attack of carefully applied pressure that slowly wore down fellow southpaw Cory Spinks. Cracks began to show in the third when Judah capped off a three-punch combination with a hard straight left that had Spinks wobbly. In the fifth, Judah knocked the…
One of the undercard huge Spinks-Judah II event tonight in St. Louis, light middleweights Eric Mitchell and Robert Dula fought in a scheduled ten round affair. The fight ended suddenly in the first round after the softer looking but undefeated Dula absorbed three unanswered shots that were obviously hard and hurtful punches. Dula landed heavily…
Friday night in Florida, Javier Jauregui won a ten-round decision against Cristian Favela by wide margins on all scorecards. Jauregui moves his professional record to forty-eight wins against eleven losses and two draws. Undefeated contender snatched his twenty-second win in a row by stopping Nicolas Cervera in the third round of their fight. At Foxwoods…
As previewed by our very own Richard Eberline yesterday, we bring you some of the international boxing results first mentioned in his, “This Week in Boxing,” article. Firstly, the French flyweight contest that took place in Ajaccio, Corse between French compatriots Bernard Inom and Alain Bonnel ended in Inom’s favor in the third round. A…
The WBO light flyweight championship clash between champion Nelson Dieppa and challenger Alex Sanchez ended in round eleven last night when Dieppa launched a huge right hand that decked Sanchez for the full count. The fight was held in Bayamon in Puerto Rico. In worrying scenes, Sanchez had to be taken from the ring to…
Injin Chin, the powerful WBC featherweight champion from Korea maintained his status as one of the featherweight divisions top names with a unanimous decision win over Tommy Browne today in Seoul. Chi was too much for the Australian challenger over the distance and the win is Chi’s thirtieth against two losses, one draw and eighteen…
In his second defense of the WBC light welterweight championship, Arturo Gatti delighted the crowd at Bally’s in Atlantic City by knocking out Jesse James Leija in the fifth round. Gatti used his skills to begin with but the Gatti of old returned before long and Leija found himself on the deck in the fifth,…