Fight Results
An old warrior has fallen while a young gun has risen to stardom as WBO Featherweight king Orlando “Siri” Salido (39-12-2 27 KO’s) dropped an eighth round technical decision to challenger Miguel Angel “Mikey” Garcia (31-0-0 26 KO’s) in the main event of an action packed HBO Boxing After Dark showdown. This ballistic brawl was…
Boxing has produced yet another controversial decision as local super featherweight Rances Barthelemy was awarded a unanimous decision verdict over Arash Usmanee on Friday night at Magic City Casino in Miami, FL. Both fighters came into the contest with undefeated professional records following sterling amateur careers but Cuban born Miami resident Barthelemy held the edge…
Polish sensation and former two division beltholder Tomasz “Goral” Adamek (48-2-0 29 KO’s) looked highly apathetic in a controversial win against former Cruiserweight champion, America’s Steve Cunningham, (25-5-0 12 KO’s) in their NBC televised rematch. The judges scored it for Adamek by contesting margins of 115-113 to Adamek (first read as 115-115 a draw), 115-113…
Nonito Donaire turned in yet another superb performance as the “Filipino Flash” retained his WBO super bantam crown with a stunning third round KO of former champion Jorge Arce at the Toyota Center in Houston, TX. The battle of highly decorated multi-weight world champions had been highly anticipated with the mobility and power of Donaire…
Two World Boxing Federation Champions successfully defended their titles on Saturday, December 15, as International Welterweight titlist Loic Foure won a unanimous decision over Kobe Vandekerkhove in France, and Women’s Light Flyweight ruler Ju Hee Kim scored a TKO over Ploynapa Sakrungrueng in Seoul, South Korea. In France, Foure, making the first defense of his…
British superstar and former Unified Super Lightweight World Champion Amir “King†Khan punctuated a sensational day-night boxing marathon presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Showtime Sports by winning a dominant 10th round TKO over gallant but out-gunned Carlos Molina Saturday on Showtime from The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. Making his first start with new…
The boxing world has been turned upside down as Juan Manuel Marquez (54-6-1 40 KO’s) has defeated the multiple division champion known as “Pacman”, Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2 38 KO’s). But no one, including myself, could have possibly expected something of this nature to happen to either one of these adversaries. After crashing to the deck…
Super middleweight Brian Magee’s big moment in the sun came up last night at Boxen Arena in Herning, Denmark but the Belfast veteran soon encountered stormy seas in the form of local icon Mikkel Kessler. After a three year reign as IBO champ was ended by Robin Reid, and enduring subsequent losses to Vitaliy Tsypko…
Undefeated heavyweight contender Joe “The Future” Hanks won a dominant six round decision over Maurenzo ‘T. Diddy” Smith on Thursday night at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, California. Winning by scores of 60 -54 on all three judges scorecards, Hanks dominated Smith from the opening bell to improve his record to 21-0-0 with…
In a rematch the 2011 WBF Fight Of The Year, Zolani Marali got his revenge when he dethroned fellow countryman Ali Funeka to win the World Boxing Federation Light Welterweight title on Saturday, December 8, at the Orient Theatre in East London, South Africa. Funeka had won a controversial split decision over Marali in November…
OneSongchai TigerGroup put on a night of fights at Bangla Stadium, Kratu district in Phuket Province on Friday. In the main event, rising star Bualuang Sor Singyu defended his WBC Asian Boxing Council bantamweight title against Indonesian challenger Arief Blader by unanimous decision.
Photo Credit: Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing A confident Puerto Rican great Miguel “Junito” Cotto (37-4-0 30 KO’s) took a major hit last night in losing a competitive decision to WBA Light Middleweight belt holder Austin “No Doubt” Trout (26-0-0 14 KO’s), a potentially career ending loss for Cotto and a career “breakout” fight for…