Undefeated WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade successfully defended his title against challenger Artur Akavov. Andrade, scoring a technical knockout victory with just 24 seconds left in the 12th and final rouns at at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden and live on DAZN on Friday.
By Derek Bonnett: Kazuto Ioka was eying a Comeback of the Year finish for 2018 and these eyes felt he pulled it off, but the ruling parties saw it differently.
By Dmitry Mossienko at ringside in Parkovy Convention Centre in Kiev. One of Ukraine’s golden boxing generation world champions Artem Dalakian (18-0-0) stopped in round 5 Gregorio Lebron (21-4-0) from Dominican republic having defended his title for the second time in 2018.
Diego Ramirez upset Bradley Skeete at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, Essex, England on Saturday, knocking out the former British champ inside two rounds.
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.