Undisputed female world welterweight champion “The First Lady” Cecilia Braekhus made yet another successful defence of her WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, and IBO titles at the Stub Hub Center in Carson, California on Saturday via 10 round unanimous decision over Magdziak-Lopes of Poland.
Rene “El Gemelo” Alvarado of Managua, Nicaragua was victorious against Carlos “The Solution” Morales of Los Angeles in a 12-round WBA Super Featherweight Title Eliminator on Saturday night.
In the evening’s co-main event in Austin on Saturday, Iskander Kharsan of Kazakhstan earned a hard fought, entertaining unanimous decision victory over Jorge Ramos for the vacant WBC Youth Intercontinental Super Bantamweight as well as World Combat Federation World Youth titles.
By Marc Livitz at ringside in Austin, TX: Reshard “Too Quick” Hicks remained disciplined and focused for everything Jairo Castaneda threw at him on Saturday night at the Austin Sports Center. An entertaining bout which began much up for grabs slowly turned into well fought display by Hicks for the World Combat Federation International Welterweight title.
By Steve Bateson: Jono Carroll and Guillaume Frenois fought out a split draw in what was billed as a final eliminator for the IBF Super Featherweight Championship on the Brook Vs Zerafa.
By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Thabiso Mchunu won back his ABU Cruiserweight Title and retained his South African Cruiserweight Title via 12 round unanimous points decision against Thomas Oosthuizen at Emperors Palace in the East of Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday.
WBA lightweight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko added the WBO title to his collection by knocking down and outworking former champion Jose Pedraza at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City Saturday night. By John J. Raspanti
Kell Brook scored a wide but uninspiring unanimous decision over the tough Michael Zerafa in front of his hometown crowd in Sheffield on Saturday night.
J.R. Jowett reporting from ringside: Promoting his brains out, Marshall Kauffman (Kings Prom’ns) ran yet another show at Philadelphia’s 2300 Arena, on Friday night.
By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Yanga Sigqibo won the vacant WBO Inter-Continental junior bantamweight Title by beating Keyvin Lara over twelve rounds here at the Orient Theatre in East London, South Africa. The judges scored the fight unanimously 117-112, 116-112 and 117-111 giving Sigqibo the nod after twelve competitive rounds.
On Sunday at the Scottish Rite Theatre in San Antonio, TX, TMB & PRB Entertainment and Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions, presented, “Whose ‘0’ Will Go 2”, where Kendo Castaneda captured the NABA super lightweight title with a unanimous decision victory Gilbert Venegas Jr., handing him his first loss as a professional.
From the Pedro ’Perucho’ Cepeda Ballpark in the city of Cataño, Puerto Rico on Saturday, Jonathan ’Bum Bum’ López from Puerto Rico, scored a unanimous decision victory over former WBA Interim World Champion José ’Torito’ Rodríguez of Mexico, in a scheduled six round fight in the bantamweight division.