Behind the Results w/c January 22
Eric Armit goes 'Behind The Results' to give us the stories behind the statistics in his weekly global boxing digest...
January 22
Poor fight as 41-year-old Brown too defensive. Venezuelan southpaw Lopez scores knockdown in last and wins wide unanimous verdict over former IBF super feather challenger. Prospect Serrano also unimpressive but wins unanimous decision.
Former top amateur and now Canadian super bantam champ,
Bouadla, the French champion, uses great jab to wear down Mora and hurts him with an uppercut in fifth and Argentinian corner throws in the sponge. “Brigadier” Sainte, warms up for shot at French title as he puts away poor Croat Glisic with a right in second. Mora was a wide points loser here to Robin Reid for the WBF title back in 2002
Twenty-one-year-old southpaw Mchunu retains South African and WBA Pan African titles as he lets veteran Groenewald blow himself out and then batters and halts him in fourth. Groenewald, originally a light middle, won and lost the WBU middleweight title in fights with Anthony Farnell, and was halted in five rounds by Carl Froch for the Commonwealth super middle title in the 13 fights he had here between 2000 and 2008.
“Dancing Shoes” Mahlangu flattens poor Ghanaian Asamoah
January 23
Lopez, moving up from super bantam, was the aggressor with Luevano boxing on the retreat to avoid the bombs of the Puerto Rican. Lopez finally got through with an uppercut early in the seventh and then put Luevano down with a right and a southpaw left. Luevano beat the count but was in a bad way and the fight was stopped. Lopez wins the WBO feather title. This was Luevano’s sixth defence since winning the vacant title with a kayo of Nick Cook back in 2007.
Gamboa just too fast and hits too hard for normally durable Tanzanian, scoring flash knockdown at the end of the first and putting Mtagwa down twice in the second for a stoppage to retain his WBA interim title. Impressive as Mtagwa went the distance with Lopez and had him badly hurt in the last two rounds, but Mtagwa his own worst enemy as he walks forward into bombs. Bob Arum will now build towards a showdown later this year.
Duddy takes only 115 seconds and two punches for victory. Wolak wins unanimous verdict on scores of 80-72 and 79-73 twice. Prospects Negron, Rosinsky and Diaz all win.
Viloria wins early rounds hurting the Colombian with body shots, but “Olympio” Tamara keeps coming as champ tires. Viloria ahead on two cards, but has nothing left in last. Champ falls to the canvas twice when missing with swipes and is easy target for volley of 14 unanswered punches and halted. Tamara wins IBF title. Viloria collapses in dressing room and is taken to hospital but passes medical checks and is detained for rest.
IBF straw champ Nietes struggles to make 107lbs for non title fight. Floors Mexican in first and keeps up pressure, but Mexican gives him plenty of trouble. A hard left hook sees Silvestre spit out mouthpiece in tenth and refuse to replace it leading to stoppage. Filipino champ Pagara starts slowly, has tough scrap with Indonesian and just edges it on majority decision with two scores of 96-94 and a 95-95.
Southpaw left hook and right uppercut from rusty Jaca finish Weriu in fifth.
Too easy for Turkish-born Saglam as he stops Russian southpaw. Oral starts fast and then fades under pressure from tough Italian. However cleaner punching gives him the edge as he takes majority verdict on scores of 78-77 twice and 76-76.
Airich and Mazkin draw again. But Mazkin, badly cut and losing two points for low blows, looks unlucky. Scores 77-75 for Airich and two scores of 76-76. Airich stopped by Danny Williams in 2008.Pala, who beat Henry Akinwande back in 2008, unimpressive in plodding unanimous points win over veteran Hawkins.
Dominican southpaw Diaz, a gold medal winner in
A rough night for Diaz as Perez loses points for a head butt and low punches. Diaz wins WBC CABOFE title on scores of 119-109, 118-110 and 115-112. Switch-hitter Macias uses body attack to take unanimous decision.
Cavaria on Premezzo,
Too easy for Lauri over soft-chinned Hungarian. Szabo has losses to Paul Hyland, Harry Ramogoadi and Paul Appleby.
Former top amateur Chaves, now twelve inside the distance, wins WBO Latino title as he floors Brazilian in third and again in fourth to force stoppage. “El Mosquito” Lazarte, now 38, retains WBC Mundo Hispano title.
Poor fight sees southpaw “Chucky” Lazcano easily on top and Lopez pull out at the bell for the fifth with a hand injury. Former double national champ Lucero, now 37, floors
Favourites all win in poor matches. Douglas Otieno kayoed in four rounds by Nathan Cleverly for the Commonwealth light-heavyweight title in December 2008 and Kiilu a loser here to Nick Cook, Rendall Munroe and Choi Tseveenpurev.
Fijian No 1 Farzan kayos Ratu in six. Farzan retain Fijian title with his third win in seven months over Ratu.
January 25
Easy for Usui who overwhelms poor opponent scoring two-punch knockdown at start of second and forcing finish.
