Boxing Results

Burgeoning heavyweight contender Yanqui Diaz squeezed his way past former contender Vaughn Bean on Friday night via a split decision win. The fight did not increase Diaz’s stock in the boxing world but Bean’s is a solid enough name to add to the record of an up and coming fighter who has had a busy…

Danish super middleweight Mikkel Kessler’s coming out party was completed tonight in his native Denmark as he punished former champion Manny Siaca. At only twenty-five years of age, Kessler becomes the WBA champion in an impressive performance that forced the more seasoned Siaca to stay on his stool after the seventh round. Kessler’s name should…

Friday, November the twelfth at the Wembley conference centre in London, England. Junior Witter retained his British, Commonwealth and European light welterweight titles when he stopped Poland’s Krzysztof Bienias in two rounds. Francis Barrett won a unanimous points decision against Alan Bosworth. David Walker stopped Danny Moir in five rounds. Daniel Cadman took a six…

Friday night, the twelfth of November at the North Bridge leisure centre in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. David Barnes remained unbeaten by knocking out James Hare in six rounds. Barnes is the British welterweight champion. Thomas McDonagh remained the undefeated WBU International light middleweight champion by winning a unanimous points decision over Darren Rhodes. Matthew…

Iranian born Mahyar Monshipour retained his WBA super bantamweight title in France tonight by stopping Thailand’s Yoddamrong Sithyodthong in six rounds. Monshipour is twenty-nine years old and this latest win brings his professional record to 26-2-2 with seventeen stoppages to his credit. A former European champion, Monshipour has now retained his world championship for the…

After a terribly confusing turn of events which saw original opponent Marcos Licona taken out of his spot on the fight card, WBO super bantamweight champion Joan Guzman defeated late subsitute Joe Morales over ten rounds as the main undercard bout of the Tszyu-Mitchell light welterweight attraction. After it was revealed that Guzman never agreed…

Germany’s interim WBO super middleweight champion Mario Veit celebrated his forty-fifth win tonight with a ninth round knockout of former IBF super middleweight champion Charles ‘The Hatchet’ Brewer. Both Brewer and Veit are former victims of current reigning WBO champion Joe Calzaghe who recently struggled to defend his title against unheralded challenger Kabary Salem. Brewer…

Thursday night in Texas, U.S.A. boxing’s youngest world champion Juan Diaz successfully retained his WBA championship as expected against French veteran Julien Lorcy by unanimous decision. The announcement told that Diaz retained his title by considerably wide margins on all of the judges scorecards. At just twenty-one years of age, Diaz stays in the reckoning…

Scott Harrison comes out for the first round and immediately goes looking for the challenger with typical pugnacity. Without giving the Ethiopian time to settle, or the fans for that matter, Harrison floors Kebede with a right to the top of the head. I and, no doubt, the rest of the viewing public look on…

Rostock – Undefeated Ukrainian bantamweight contender Wladimir Sidorenko beat former world champion Leo Gamez with a unanimous decision over 12 rounds in a WBA bantamweight eliminator on Tuesday in Rostock, Germany. Sidorenko who was headlining the Spotlight Boxing event at Scandlines Arena displayed impressive speed, power and combination punching. But the tough 41-year-old Gamez gave…

The battle for the WBA light-welterweight championship culminated in a right hand from the champion, Vivian Harris that stopped challenger Oktay Urkal in his tracks in the eleventh round. The fight was a rematch between the two that materialized when Harris was unable to negotiate a higher profile defense against a more prestigious name. Stopping…