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Nathan Cleverly left the Wembley Arena in London with his WBO light heavyweight title and unbeaten record intact on Saturday when he more or less scored a shutout 12 round points win over Robin Krasniqi.
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British light middleweight champion Brian Rose scored a 12th round stoppage win over former world champion Joachim Alcine at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on Saturday.
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Tyson Fury survived a second round knock down to knock out the brave but outgunned Steve Cunnigham at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night.
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J. R. Jowett reporting from ringside: The match smelled from Day 1.Why put Anthony Caputo Smith, a limited fighter but a popular ticket-seller whose 13-1 (10) record was largely built up against carefully-picked opposition, in with dangerous spoiler Dhafir Smith?
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Jon Lewis Dickinson retained his British cruiserweight title via a 12 round unanimous decision over Mike Staffiord at the Rainton Meadows Arena in Houghton Le Spring on Friday night.
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Javier “El Abejon” Fortuna may have lost his WBA interim featherweight title on the scales at Thursday’s weigh in but he took just 0.68 of the opening round to crush Miguel “Mikol” Zamudio at the Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City on Friday night.
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Former WBC super flyweight champ Tomas “Gusano” Rojas returned to boxing on Saturday night when he knocked out Philippine Jaderes Padua in the sixth round.
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The WBA featherweight title bout between long time champion Chris John and Satoshi Hosono ended in a technical draw at the Indoor Tennis Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday.
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J. R. Jowett reporting from ringside: Intrepid promoter Andre Kut (KEA Boxing) got a new pair of pants and courageously ran a card just across the river from NYC on the night of the prime-time Radio City show promoted by Top Rank.
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J. R. Jowett reporting from ringside: Wow! What a town! Houses range in style from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Appalachia, there’s a 5th & Broadway, mountain cliffs drop into backyards, there was a drive-by at the trailer park, and a river (canal) runs through it
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Former WBO flyweight champ Julio Cesar Miranda and Juan Jose Montes battled to a 12 round draw at the Plaza de Toros Monumental in Cuidad Hidalgo, Michoacan, Mexico on Saturday.
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Guillermo Rigondeaux produced the upset of the year so far at the Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night when he survived a 10th round knockdown to out-point Nonito Donaire over 12 rounds to unify the WBO and WBA super bantamweight titles.
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By Marc Livitz at ringside in Corpus Christi, Texas: Juan Diaz scored a sixth round TKO victory over Hernando "Pipino" Cuevas, Jr. tonight at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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WBA/WBO and WBC welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus remained unbeaten at the Arena Nord in Frederikshavn, Denmark on Saturday night when she scored a third round tko win over 45 year old Mia St John.
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Marcos Nader emerged victorious via 12 unanimous decision in a rematch with Roberto Santos at the Multiversum in Schwechat, Austria on Saturday.
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By Sean Wippert ringside in Las Vegas: Amir Imam showed everyone in attendance at the Treasure Island hotel and casino why he had the nickname “Young Master.” on Friday.
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Undefeated heavyweight Amir “Hardcore” Mansour stopped Jason Gavern in the first round at the Dover Downs Casino and Hotel in Dover, Delaware on Friday.
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Cedric Agnew out-pointed former world title challenger Yusaf Mack over 12 rounds in a bout for the USBA light heavyweight title fight at the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan on Friday.
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By Sean Wippert ringside in Las Vegas: The main event of the evening at the Treasure Island and Casino pitted a pair of very talented lightweight fighters in their quest for championship dreams. Two time Cuban champion Angelo “The Cuban Cobra” Santana stood at the ready as faced off against dangerous Uzbekistani phenom Bahodir “Baha” Mamadjonov.
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Shinsuke Yamanaka retained his WBC bantamweight title against Malcolm Tunacao of the Philippines via 12th round tko in Tokyo, Japan on Monday.
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Lee McAllister returned to the ring in front of his local fans on Saturday and registered a six round points win over Ivan Godor at the Beach Ballrooms in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Japanese boxer Koki Kameda retained his WBA bantamweight title defeating Panomroonglek Kaiyanghadaogym of Thailand by split 12 round decision in Osaka, Japan on Sunday.
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World-ranked Vincente Martin Rodriguez from Argentina was surprisingly stopped inside three rounds by Sergio Escobar at the Club Deportivo San Vincente in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday evening.
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World rated light welterweight Thomas Dulorme scored a clear eight round unanimous decision win over Ben Ankrah at the Coliseo Guillermo Angulo in Carolina, Puerto Rico on Saturday.
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In a rematch of their October 2012 draw, billed “Unfinished Business”, Adrian Taihia came out on top after 10 close rounds against Gunnar Jackson to capture the vacant WBF Oceania Super Middleweight title at the ABA Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand on Friday.
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WBA female bantamweight champion Irma “Torbellino” Garcia retained her title via 10 round split decision over Janeth Perez at the El Chamizal Sport Center in Zamora, Michoacan, Mexico on Saturday.
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By Derek Gionta: "The Pittsburgh Kid" Paul Spadafora, 48-0-1 (19), continued his world title quest on Saturday night by defeating Denver’s "Red Hot" Robert Frankel, 32-13-1 (6), by a ten round unanimous decision at Chester, West Virginia’s Mountaineer Racetrack and Gaming Resort. With the win, Spadafora picked up the NABF junior welterweight title.
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By Ron Valderrama: China’s Zou Shiming in his pro debut defeated Eleazar Valenzuela in a 4- round bout from the Venetian Resort in Macao, China. Shiming, a two-time Olympic champion and trained by Freddy Roach, started throwing punches from the opening bell. Zou did well dodging punches and throwing some nice shots on Valenzuela.
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By Jason Pribila – In the classic 1994 film, The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman’s “Red” used the following quote when discussing Andy Dufresne’s escape from prison. “Oh Andy loved geology. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really….pressure and time.”
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Undefeated super-featherweight prospect Joel Diaz Jr. continued to impress with another knockout victory on the Lou Savarese promoted show at the Bayou Event Center in Houston, Texas on Thursday.
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Jerry Glick reporting from ringside: Yuri Foreman, 155, Brooklyn, NY had an easy night against a small junior-middleweight who lacked the skills to compete at Foreman’s level. Gundrick King, 156, Tuscaloosa, AL, tried his hardest to avoid Yuri’s snappy jab, but it hit its target with a mind numbing regularity.
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By Derek Gionta, ringside: Monessen, Pennsylvania’s Sammy Vasquez Jr. headlined another Team Vasquez-promoted card entitled Double Duty III at Elizabeth, PA’s Courttime Sports Complex on Saturday night. The welterweight prospect defeated Minnesota’s Hector Orozco over six one-sided rounds.
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By Mike Sloan at ringside: In the night’s co-feature in Las Vegas, Terence Crawford was expected to truly be tested for the first time in his career against Colombian bomber Breidis Prescott.
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By Mike Sloan at ringside in Las Vegas:Mike Alvarado has stated many times since his epic first bout with Brandon Rios that it was stopped prematurely. Some agreed, some didn’t. He’s professed profusely many a time since that he’ll have a better result whenever he met Rios again. On Saturday night inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center, he did just that.
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Joseph “Smokey” Hilongwa produced a fine performance by outworking a never say die Sibusiso Twani of South Africa to win the vacant WBF Intercontinental Super Flyweight title in Namibia on Friday (March 29).
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Tony Bellew was held to a frustrating 12 draw against Isaac Chilemba in a battle for the WBC silver light heavyweight title at the Echo Arena in Bellew’s home city of Liverpool on Saturday night.
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Kazakhstan born puncher Gennady Golovkin took just three rounds to take out Nobuhiro Ishida from Japan to successfully defend his WBA and IBO middleweight titles in Monte Carlo on Saturday night.
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J. R. Jowett reporting from ringside: Boxing is booming at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY, near Syracuse, with Art Pelullo’s Banner Promotions taking over and ESPN in the house. Greg Cohen co-promoted, and matchmaker Eric Bottjer put on a crowd-pleasing show.
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Chonlatarn Or Piriyapinyo impressively stopped Nathan Bolcio in round five on Friday at the OTOP Center of Khueangnai in Ubonrachathani, Thailand.
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Jeffrey “Mongoose” Mathebula out-pointed 35-year-old Takalani Ndlovu over 12 rounds at Carnival City, in Brakpan, South Africa on Saturday to earn another crack the IBF featherweight title.
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Devis Boschiero made a successful defense of his European super featherweight title with a 10th round knockout of tough challenger Samir Kasmi. In Abano Terme,Veneto, Italy on Saturday.
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Super flyweight Jonathan Gonzalez stopped Joseph Rios inside three one-sided rounds at the Coliseo Ruben Zayas in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico on Saturday night.
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WBC No.1 middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio won a 12 round unanimous decision over Marcus Upshaw at “La Macarena” Center in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico on Saturday.
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welterweight Zahir “King” Raheem returned after a long lay off to score a second round stoppage over Santos Pakau in the main event of Battle at the Boat 91 at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday.
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Robert Stieglitz regained the WBO super middleweight title via three round technical knockout against current champ Arthur Abraham at the GETEC Arena in Magdeburg, Germany on Saturday night. Stieglitz,who lost his title to Abraham in 2012, was judged the winner after the fight was stopped due to a serious cut around Abraham’s eye.
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Former IBF bantamweight champion Joseph “King Kong” Agbeko became a champion again at the Accra Sports Stadium in Accra, Ghana on Friday when out-pointed Colombian Luis Melendez over 12 rounds.
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Don “Da Bomb” George, 24-3-2-(21), David “The Destroyer” Lopez, 41-14-(23), battled to a 10 round draw at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois on Friday.
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World rated super middleweight Adonis “Superman” Stevenson gained sweet revenge over American Darnell Boone when he scored a sixth round knockout victory at the Bell Center in Montreal, Canada, on Friday night.
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J. R. Jowett reporting from ringside: Boxing in Upstate New York is but a remnant of its glory days when Carmen Basilio was a fixture on home TV. But a shadow remains, and it was enough to have several hundred fans lined up outside the Armory in a snowstorm on Thursday(March 21) night.
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By Wayne Bartlett: It can only be described as a shame to see the lack of conditioning which is in danger of overcoming the ability of Odlanier Solis.
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