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Dorin Spivey won the NABA Lightweight title when he scored a seventh round tko win over Philadelphia’s Victor Vasquez at the Tropicana Casino and Resort Showroom in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday night.
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By: Marc Livitz at ringside: In front of an announced crowd of 14,210 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX., Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. retained his WBC Middleweight title as he ground and slugged his way to a unanimous decision win over Marco Antonio Rubio.
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By Andrew Wake at ringside: Bury’s Scott Quigg retained his British super-bantamweight title with an eighth round stoppage of Welsh veteran Jamie Arthur.
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By Mike Sloan ringside in Las Vegas: ESPN’s Friday Night Fights series returned to Sin City, this time off the Strip inside the Texas Station casino. The card overall was solid, with Isaac Chilemba leading the way with a moderately surprising decision victory over the popular and always dangerous Edison Miranda.
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This past Saturday at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York, light heavyweight prospect Travis Peterkin remained undefeated, winning a unanimous decision against Steve Tyner.
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By: Marc Livitz: BJ Flores scored a decisive 6th round TKO victory over Hugo Pineda Saturday in Springfield, Missouri. Flores was impressive from the opening bell and sent his opponent to the canvas in the second round.
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Former WBO light heavyweight champion Jürgen Brähmer finally made it back into the ring after three previous late withdrawals to score a fourth round tko win over José Maria Guerrero at the Grand Elysée in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday .
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By Andrew Wake at ringside: Bring on Scott Quigg! That was the message sent out by Northern Irish boxing sensation Carl Frampton at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Saturday night (January 28).
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By: Marc Livitz: ESPN’s "Friday Night Fights" provided the backdrop to showcase the talents as well as potential of Russian light welterweight Ruslan Provodnikov. An uptempo fight crowd at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights, Washington, near the city of Spokane was treated to a good night of boxing.
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By Jerry Glick at ringside: There is still some life in the old man yet as former WBO Junior-welterweight belt holder DeMarcus Corley turned back Gabriel Bracero in his bid to add a name opponent to his win column.
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Saturday’s results from Utah, Washington, and New Jersey
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Luis ’Orlandito’ Del Valle defeated tough mexican José Beranza via unanimous decision in Saturday night’s eight round fight. The judge’s called it at 80-72, 78-74 and 79-73 in favor of Del Valle in the super bantamweight bout.
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By Mikko Salo: Finnish cruiserweight Juho Haapoja defended his EU title successfully on Saturday night in Seinäjoki, Finland in front of about 2,500 hometown fans.
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By Jason Pribila: The questions that Main Events promoter, Kathy Duva and Hall of Fame matchmaker, Russell Peltz asked of the fight cards they signed on to provide for inaugural NBC SportsNet “Fight Night” series were:
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By Danny Winterbottom at ringside: Unbeaten prospect David Price took another step closer to becoming Liverpool’s first ever British heavyweight champion when he demolished John McDermott in just 73 seconds.
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Former WBO champion Daniel Ponce De Leon, 42-4-(35), scored a sixth round tko over Omar Estrella, 15-4-2-(10), at the Bodega Del Boxeo in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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David Quijano scored a 10 round points win over Javier Gallo at the Coliseo Pedrin Zorrilla in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday night.
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By Marc Livtiz: In front of a raucous crowd in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Miguel Vazquez ’s homecoming resulted in a dominating performance and a successful defense of his IBF lightweight championship title.
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Heavyweight hope David Price impressively brushed aside John McDermott after just 73 seconds at the Liverpool Olympia on Saturday night and immediately called out British and Commonwealth champion Tyson Fury.
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By: Sean Wippert ringside in Las Vegas: Headlining the undercard at the Palms In Las Vegas was a pair of undefeated super featherweights who at first glance looked to steal the show.
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By Sean Wippert at ringside: The main event of the evening at the Friday Night Fights at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas had all the makings of a top-notch title bout. Standing in the blue corner and hailing from Santiago, Cuba was the undefeated Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux.
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By Danny Winterbottom at ringside: Emiliano Marsili stopped Derry Matthews in the seventh round to claim the vacant IBO lightweight title at the Liverpool Olympia on Friday night.
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Jerry Glick at ringside: Staten Island, NY was jumping with a full house at the Hilton Garden Inn on a Greg Cohen Promotions show featuring Mikey Faragon against tough Andres Ledesmat.
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By Don Smith: Boxing fans who travelled to Calgary, Alberta on Friday to watch Janks Trotter battle Adam "The A-Bomb" Trupish expected a knockout and that expectation came to fruition.
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Results from this weekend’s action in Temecula, CA and Elizabeth, IN.
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Thousands of miles apart, but equally as impressive, Irma Sanchez and Ramona Kuehne retained their WBF Women’s Flyweight and Super Featherweight World titles on Saturday night
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King Arthur Abraham celebrated a successful ring return on Saturday night when he knocked out Pablo Farias in the fifth round of their clash in Offenburg, Germany.
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Curt “The Hurt” Allan returned after a 12 year lay off at the Elizabeth, IN Horseshoe Casino Southern Indiana on Friday to defeat ‘King of the Four Rounders’ Eric ‘Butterbean’ Esch.
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By Danny Winterbottom: German based Russian Robert Stieglitz made a successful fifth defence of his WBO super middleweight title as he laid a systematic beating on a brave but outclassed Henry Weber on route to a unanimous points victory at the Baden Arena in Offenburg, Germany tonight January 14.
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By: Mike Sloan at ringside; The first Friday Night Fights card was headlined by a spirited duel between junior featherweights Teon Kennedy and Chris Martin.
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By Ryan Waugh at ringside: Leon ‘Solid’ Williams was shockingly stopped by Shane McPhilbin in the 12th and final round in defence of his British cruiserweight title at the York Hall in Bethnal Green in London on Friday.
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WBO female light middleweight champion Hanna Gabriel scored a controversial eighth round stoppage win Dakota Stone at the Palacio de los Deportes, Heredia, Costa Rica on Saturday.
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Featherweight Jesus Rojas and Jose Luis Araiza battled to an eight round majority draw at the Westin Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, Florida on Saturday night.
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Former WBC light-flyweight champion Edgar Sosa scored a seventh round tko win over Roilo Gomez at the Foro Polanco in Mexico City on Saturday night.
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In front of a sold out crowd at the Maritim Hotel in Magdeburg, Germany, defending WBF International Light Heavyweight Champion Denis Simcic retained his title with a unanimous decision over Czech challenger Tomas Adamek.
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During a weekend when Showtime is available in more than 60 million homes as a part of the network’s Free Preview Weekend, a pair of lightweights took full advantage by capturing minor titles – and the adoration of fight fans – with impressive, entertaining performances from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.
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By Marc Livitz: ESPN kicked off its 15h season of “Friday Night Fights” from Key West, Florida. The main event between Dyah Davis of Boca Raton, FL and Alfonso Lopez was very much a case of neither fighter being in much of a rush to emerge from their respective defensive shells.
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Celestino Caballero made a successful first defence of his WBA featherweight crown at Bunka Gym, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan on Saturday when he out-pointed Japanese challenger Satoshi Hosono over 12 rounds.
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WBC minimumweight champ Kazuto Ioka, 9-0-(6), retained his title and unbeaten record by thumping Thai challenger and WBC youth champ Yodgoen Tor Chalermchai, 8-1-(4), into submission in Osaka,Japan on Saturday
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Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell made triumphant returns to the ring on Friday evening , both winning by knockout during a special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime.
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Thai challenger Kompayak Porpramook scored a thrilling 10th round knockout win over Adrian Hernandez to claim the WBC light flyweight crown at 11th Inf Reg in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday night.
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light middleweight Michael Medina out-pointed Grady “Bad Boy” Brewer over 10 hard fought rounds at the Cox Center in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Thursday night.
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This past Friday night light Middleweight prospect Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna scored his sixth consecutive victory with a second round stoppage over Ivory Joyner.
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By Dmytro Mossienko: Klitschko brothers promotional powerhouse K2 east ended 2011 with a lackluster boxing card at the Kyiv Sports Palace on Saturday, 17 December.
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Patrick Nielsen won the first title of his promising career in Herning in Saturday night when he cruised to a clear points victory over Michael Schubov
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WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido recovered from two knockdowns in rounds three and four to score an eighth round tko win over Weng Haya, 15-5-(8) in round eight of a non-title match.
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By: Marc Livitz Roberto Marroquin felt more than welcome in his neighboring state of Oklahoma. The native of Dallas, TX put on a masterful display at the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville versus Carlos Valcarcel of San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday night
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By Derek Gionta, ringside: Andre "S.O.G." Ward continued his quest for super middleweight supremacy by dominating Carl "The Cobra" Froch on Saturday night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall in the highly anticipated Super Six World Boxing Classic Final.
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In front of a noisy crowd at the Salle Marcel Cerdan in Thourotte, France, WBF Intercontinental Light Welterweight Champion Yvan Mendy retained his title on Friday night
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WBO NABO light heavyweight champion Andrew Fonfara knocked out Phil Williams in the third of the a 10 rounder UIC Pavillion in Chicago on Friday night.
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