Boxing Results

In an all action fight, Brandon Rios captured the WBA Lightweight championship from Miguel Acosta via 10th round knockout in the first night of a stacked 2011 lineup for Showtime Championship Boxing and Showtime PPV. In the evening’s co-feature, Antonio DeMarco won a unanimous decision over Reyes Sanchez. “A star …

Ricky Hatton will support Stephen Foster Jr in whatever decision he makes on his future, following a shock European super-featherweight title defeat on Saturday night. The Salford braveheart was floored five times by mandatory contender Ermano Fegatillo before losing on points in front of a sell-out 2000 crowd on Hatton …

WBC international super middleweight champion Nikola Sjekloca defended his title with a unanimous decision win over Spain’s Roberto “El Tigre” Santos in front of 800 fans at the ballroom in “Hotel Park”, Novi Sa, Serbia. 32-year-old Sjekloca started strong dominating his opponent with his accurate jab and excellent ring generalship. …

The year’s most hotly anticipated clash at bantamweight turned out to be far less competitive than expected as the Philippine’s Nonito Donaire blew out Fernando Montiel to capture the Mexican’s WBC and WBO belts at Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas. Montiel started off cautiously and that proved to be …

Felix Sturm returned to action Saturday night at Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany, retaining his WBA middleweight title against challenger Ronald Hearns. Hearns tried to leverage his advantages in height and reach but Sturm’s edge in quickness offset any momentum the challenger was trying to build and soon the champion …

IBF welter kingpin Jan Zaveck wowed a hometown audience in Ljubljana, Slovenia with a fifth round stoppage of opponent Paul Delgado at Sports Park Arena. It didn’t take long for the skill and experience advantage of the champion to show as Delgado was in deep water as early as the …

Saturday night at the Essex County Collage in Newark, NJ, Polish heavyweight Mariusz Wach took out Jonathan Haggler in just three rounds to win the WBC Baltic Heavyweight title that highlighted a seven bout card promoted by Prize Fight and Global Boxing.

IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham headlined a big show on Saturday, retaining his title over Enad Licina at RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sporthalle in Muelheim, Germany. Despite ceding a big edge in experience to the champion, Licina came to fight and gave Cunningham a difficult time in the early going. But Licina …

WBO/NABO Youth and USBO Light Heavyweight champion Mark “TNT” Tucker of Eldersburg, MD moved to 15-0 with 7 knockouts following a hard fought unanimous decision over Ray Smith last night at BB King Blues Club & Grill in New York, NY. Fighting for the first time in eight months, Tucker …

American challenger Austin Trout went into opponent Rigoberto Alvarez’s hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico last night and walked out with the WBA light middleweight title belt around his waist after 12 rounds of action. 33 year old campaigner Alvarez had won the Interim version of the WBA bauble with a split …

WBC super flyweight king Tomas Rojas returned to Japan again to retain his belt with a victory last evening over Nobuo Nashiro at Osaka’s Prefectural Gymnasium in a tooth and nail contest. Mexico’s Rojas previously held the Interim version of the title but was KO’d in two by Vic Darchinyan …

Facing the toughest opponent of his short professional career, undefeated featherweight prospect and Cuban Olympian Luis Franco eked out a close split-decision victory over the extremely tough and powerful Leonilo Miranda in Friday’s main event of ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime from Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez , …