Tokyo Japan: Light Middle: Charlie Ota (18-1-1) W KO 6 Akio Shibata (16-7-1). Makoto Fuchigami (17-6) W TKO 6 Takayuki Hosokawa (18-9-3). Ota (real name Bellamy) retains Japanese and OPBF title for fifth time with kayo of former victim Shibata. Competitive fight for four rounds. Ota, 29, takes first round but Shibata, also 29, finds gaps in the American’s defence in the second. Ota tightens up and shakes Shibata with right at the end of the fourth. Shibata hold his own in fifth, but is overwhelmed in the sixth, with Ota scoring two knockdowns and fight is stopped. Former US Marine Ota (Bellamy) had won the OPBF and Japanese titles by stopping Shibata in eight rounds in March 2010. Southpaw Fuchigami retains national title for third time with stoppage of Hosokawa. Champion took a few rounds to figure out the style of Hosokawa but floors him with long left in sixth and follow-up barrage sees fight stopped.
Tokyo, Japan: Straw: Kazuto Ioka (8-0) W PTS 12 Juan Hernandez (18-2). Light: Shuhei Tsuchiya (11-0) W TKO 9 Hirohito Fukuhara (13-5-8). “Wonder Kid” Ioka, 22, retains WBC title in first defence with clear unanimous verdict over tough Mexican. Switch-hitting from the first round, Hernandez, 24, has early success as he shakes Ioka with a left hook in the opening round. Ioka takes over from the second scoring well with jabs and fast combinations. In the fourth he has Hernandez bleeding heavily from the nose giving Hernandez breathing problems throughout the fight. Hernandez stages a big attack in the fifth, but Ioka comes back to take rounds 6, 7, 8 and 9. Hernandez goes all out for the win in the tenth, inflicts cut over right eyebrow of the champion, but Ioka weathers the storm. Ioka’s turn in the eleventh as he has Hernandez retreating and eating combinations for three minutes. Ioka sweeps the last to win on scores of 118-111, 117-111 and 116-112. Ioka, an outstanding amateur, and the nephew of former WBC straw and WBA light fly champion Hiroyuki Ioka, won the Japanese title in his sixth fight and beat Thai Oleydong in his seventh to take the WBC title. Mandatory challenger “Juanito” Hernandez had won his last eleven fights. Former kick-boxer Tsuchiya, 24, looked to be on the way to an early win as he floored the more experienced Fukuhara in the first. However, Fukuhara stayed in there, and was having some success in the late rounds, until Tsuchiya scored another knockdown in the ninth, and forced the stoppage. All of Tsuchiya’s wins have come by KO/TKO. Fukuhara, 26, had been unbeaten in his last nine fights.
Panama City, Panama: Fly: Luis Concepcion (23-2) W KO 1 Manuel Vargas (30-9-1). Welter: Azael Cosio (11-1-2,1ND) W KO 5 Pablo Vazquez (20-3). All over in 76 seconds as 25-year-old former WBA champion “El Nica” Concepcion flattens useful Mexican Vargas. Concepcion shakes Vargas early with right then scores heavily with fast left hook to body and straight right. Vargas goes forward throwing punches but out of range. Copncepcion comes back again with left hook straight right. As Vargas backs-up Concepcion is short with a jab but a straight right puts Vargas down. He falls so heavily that his head snaps the bottom rope from its holder. Lying propped up against the ropes, Vargas is obviously finished, and the referee does not complete the count, but calls for attention for Vargas who is down for 2-3 minutes. Impressive display of speed and power from Concepcion who now has 18 wins by KO/TKO. Concepcion lost his title in a war with Mexican Hernan Marquez in April. “Chango” Vargas, 30, a former inter WBO straw champion, has won only two of his last four, but his other conquerors were Ramon Garcia, Giovanni Segura and Roman Gonzalez-so no disgrace there. “Turbo” Cosio punches too hard for noted banger Vazquez. Panamanian Cosio, 29, takes first two rounds with body shots, but Venezuelan Vazquez evens things up over next two, scoring well with head punches. Cosio goes to the body again in the fifth and then puts Vazquez away with a right to the jaw. Eight wins by KO/TKO for Cosio. Vazquez hard puncher, but limited skills and questionable chin. He won his first 16 fight by KO/TKO but has lost 3 of his last 4 inside the distance.
Pasay City, Philippines: Welter: Dennis Laurente (38-3-5) W TKO 1 Cris Alag (8-21). In first defence of his national title veteran Laurente stuns Alag early and follow-up barrage sees the referee stop the mismatch after just 33 seconds. WBC No 15, southpaw Laurente has won his last 15 and has 20 wins by KO/TKO. Poor Alag, 31, has now lost his last eight; seven of those by KO/TKO, so had no right fighting for any title, but has in fact fought for both the national lightweight and light welterweight titles.
Patumthanee, Thailand: Straw: Paipharob (17-0) W KO 3 Sammy Hagler (15-5-2).Too easy for WBA No 4 Paipharob as he kayos Indonesian. Fifth defence of PABA title for former Muay Thai exponent Paipharob, 28, who has won his last twelve by KO/TKO, but all against very poor opposition. Hagler, 21, without a win in his last six fights.
Salta, Argentina: Welter: Luis Abregu (30-1) W TKO 2 Walter Diaz (26-9-1).Body punches do it for home town fighter Abregu against the badly fading Diaz. One in the first round has Diaz hurt and another in the second round puts him down and sees the towel come flying in. Now 24 wins by KO/TKO for Abregu, whose only loss was to Tim Bradley in July last year. First fight since October 2009 for Diaz.
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Castlebar Ireland: Light Middle: Henry Coyle (16-2) W TKO 5 Elio Cotena (18-6-5). Super Feather: Mick Coveney (12-13) W PTS 10 Finnbar Eade (6-1). Feather: Patrick Hyland (24-0) W TKO 4 Fabrizio Trotta (13-6-2). The “Western Warrior” Coyle, 30, wins vacant WBFoundation title with cut victory over 30-year-old Italian Cotena. Coyle scoring well and controlling the bout with his jab and heavy rights. What looked like a clash of heads in the third saw Cotena badly cut on the eyebrow, but the referee decides it was caused by a punch. Cut worsens and Cotena pulled-out at the end of the fifth. The US-based Coyle is a former World Military Games gold medal winner. Cotena had lost only one of his last eight going in. Journeyman southpaw Coveney, 29, just edges out previously unbeaten Eade, 36, to win vacant Irish title. Score 96-95. Only three wins in his last twelve fights for Coveney. Hyland makes work for himself by mixing-it with tough Italian instead of using his skills. Slowly wears Trotta down. Floors him twice with a body punches in fourth and fight is stopped. “The Punisher” a WBFederation champion has eleven wins by KO/TKO. Trotta’s last fight was a loss in five rounds in a challenge to Rendall Munroe for the EBU title in December 2008.
Kobe, Japan: Super Bantam: Kohei Oba (29-1-1) W TKO 8 Yoshihiro Sasaki (7-7-2). Oba, 26, continues his rebuilding with a stoppage of modest Sasaki. First fight for Oba in nine months and second win since losing unbeaten tag against Malcolm Tunacao in July 2010.
Indio, USA: Light Middle: Antonio Diaz (47-6-1) W TKO 8 Ernesto Zepeda (39-15-4). All-out aggression of veteran Diaz too much for Zepeda. From the first round Diaz has fellow Mexican Zepeda on the defensive and fighting off the ropes. Diaz, 35, scores heavily throughout with Zepeda having some success with left hooks in the middle rounds. Diaz goes for broke in the eighth, and with Zepeda not fighting back and taking heavy punishment the fight should have been stopped. Thankfully Zepeda’s corner pulled him out of the fight. Diaz lost to Shane Mosley for the WBC welter title in 2000 and to Antonio Margarito for the vacant WBO title in 2002. In his last fight in December 2009 he took a beating from Victor Ortiz and was stopped in seven rounds. “Baby Face” Zepeda, 34, has won only two of his last eight, and was outpointed by Matthew Hatton in May 2009.
Hollywood, USA: Light: Richard Abril (16-2-1) W TKO 5 Sergio Rivera (25-8-2). Straw: Carlos Buitrago (19-0-0,1ND) W PTS 10 Felipe Rivas (9-8-1,1ND). Heavy: Luis Ortiz (13-0) W TKO 7 Arron Lyons (12-11-1,1ND). Welter: Ed Paredes (27-3-1) W TKO 8 Juliano Ramos (16-5,1ND). Feather: Yoandris Salinas (12-0) W KO 3 Felipe Almanza (18-27-4). Second fight in two weeks for WBA No 5 Abril. Rivera gives him a good argument until a wicked body hook puts him down and Rivera was unable to rise for a couple of minutes as he claimed a low blow. Cuban Abril, 29, and 5’11” tall, lost a split verdict to Breidis Prescott in July 2010. Mexican Rivera is now 2-5 in his last seven, but all against good opposition. Nicaraguan “Wunder Kid” Buitrago, 19, wins US debut. Rivas gets off to the better start, but Buitrago gets into his stride from the third and runs out a clear points winner on scores of 97-93 from all three judges. Rivas had been in with some good opposition and had won 3 of his last 4 fights. Early shock for Cuban Ortiz as he hits the floor from a right in the first. Lyons cut in clash of heads in the second and from then on Ortiz in control and working game Lyons over. Doctor examines the cut at the end of the seventh and rules it too bad for Lyons to continue. The 6’4” Ortiz made heavy work of a fight with a late sub who has now on only one of his last five fights. Good, solid display by Ed “The Lion” Paredes. Ramos comes to fight, but Paredes, 26, wears him down and dominates with better boxing, hand speed and strength. Forces stoppage with barrage in seventh. Paredes now unbeaten in seven since loss to Carlos Molina in April 2009. Brazilian Ramos has lost four of his last five. Cuban “El Nino” Salinas, 25, again looks the goods. He puts late sub Almanza down with two left hooks and the 35-year-old Colombian was down for 2-3 minutes. Colombian Almanza, 35, who started out as a flyweight, has now lost his last eight.
St Charles, USA: Light Middle: Kermit Cintron (33-4-1) W PTS 10 Antwone Smith (20-3-1). Light: Dannie Williams (19-1) W KO 4 Antonio Cervantes (16-6-5). Puerto Rican “The Truth” Cintron, 31, gets back onto the winning trail. The former IBF welter champion builds and early lead scoring well with his jab, and keeping the aggressive Smith on the outside. From the fourth Smith, 24, by far the busier boxer, gets to work inside, and looks to be leveling the score. Cintron manages to open some space again over the late rounds and wins unanimous verdict. Scores 98-92, 97-93 and 96-94. Smith had a much higher punch ratio, but Cintron blocked most of the punches and scored the cleaner shots. Cintron trying to rebuild after losses to Paul Williams and Carlos Molina. Smith had won his last two after shock stoppage loss to Lanardo Tyner in July 2010. Former National Golden Gloves winner Williams made it seven wins in a row as he floored Mexican Cervantes in the first with a left hook and finished him with a thunderous right hand counter in the fourth. The 26-year-old from St Louis has 15 wins by KO/TKO with his only defeat being a points loss to WBO No 4 Eloy Perez in September 2009. Cervantes, 33, was unbeaten in his last five.
Las Vegas, USA: Bantam: Abner Mares (22-0-1) W PTS 12 Joseph Agbeko (28-3). Heavy: Eric Molina (18-1) W TKO 3 Warren Browning (14-2-1). Bantam: Eric Morel (45-2) W TKO 4 Daniel Quevedo (13-12-2). Light Welter: Angelo Santana (11-0) W TKO 2 Ramzan Adaev (8-1-1). Light Welter: Carlos Molina (14-0-1) DREW 8 Juan Montiel (5-4-3). Mares, 25, wins split decision, and IBF title, but is lucky as referee overlooks a whole passel of low blows from Mares, issues five warnings, without deducting a point, and compounds it all by counting over 31-year-old “King Kong” Agbeko when he was floored by yet another low blow in the eleventh. Unfortunately this performance by the referee spoiled the fight and left Mares with a tainted victory. The fight itself was a good battle between two tough fighters. Mares scored a knockdown in the first, although TV replays suggested it was a slip, and built an early lead, setting the tempo of the fight and going forward all the time. It was the hooks of Mares against the jab of Agbeko. The Ghanaian shook Mares with a right in the fourth, but at the end of the sixth Mares had built a good lead. Agbeko started to outwork Mares from the seventh, but his fight back was derailed by the controversial knockdown in the eleventh. Scores 115-111 twice and 113-113. Mares adds IBF title to the IBO and WBC Silver titles he won with a split decision over Vic Darchinyan in December. This fight had been scheduled for earlier in the year, but was postponed after Agbeko fainted in the dressing room before the fight. Don King, the promoter of Agbeko will officially protest the decision and the IBF are likely to order a rematch with the winner then fighting Nonito Donaire. Texan Molina has it easy against over-matched Browning. Scores heavily with rights throughout before referee stops the fight in third. Molina, 6’6” tall and with an 84” reach, wins vacant WBC USNBC title and makes it 14 by KO/TKO. Browning, 36, has a heavily padded record with wins over poor opposition. Poor match sees former WBA fly champ Morel, 35, makes it ten wins in a row as he scores a standing eight count in the first and a knockdown in the second against the normally durable Quevedo. Hands out a steady beating. Quevedo’s corner pull him out at the end of fourth. The Puerto Rican “Little Hands of Steel” is hoping to challenge WBA champion Anselmo Moreno in November. First loss inside the distance for Mexican super bantam champ Quevedo. Cuban Santana, 23, easily adjusts to late change in opponent and is too good for previously unbeaten Russian. Forces a standing count early in the second and after a knockdown in the same round the referee stops the fight. “La Cobra”, who made it to Florida in 2007 on a raft made up of tyres and wood, now has eight by KO/TKO. First fight in just over a year for 31-year-old Adaev. The Molina vs. Montiel fight was a close hard fought battle. Molina was the harder puncher, but had trouble getting his punches off against the busier Montiel. It was quality against quantity and the judges were split. Scores 78-74 Molina, 77-74 Montiel and 76-76.
Broadbeach, Australia: Mike Katsidis (28-4) W KO 3 Mike Lozada (38-9-1) .Light Welter: Jack Asis (24-18-4) W TKO 2 Nestor Rocha (23-3). Middle: Jarrod Fletcher (9-0) W PTS 8 Arnel Tinampay (14-14-1). Predictable return to the winning column for former WBO interim champion Katsidis. The Aussie hits too hard for experienced Mexican and volley of body shots in third leaves Lozada on his knees for the count. Katsidis has come through a bad time, not only losing to Juan Manuel Marquez and Robert Guerrero, but also losing his brother Stathi. Next he wants Joel Casamayor. Lozada always loses the big fights inside the distance. Asis continues to turn his form around. The 30-year-old Filipino makes it three wins in a row as he batters away at Rocha until the Californian’s corner throw in the towel. Currently the Australian champion, before this little winning run Asis had lost five in a row. Rocha, 28, lost in one round to Hozumi Hasegawa for the WBC bantam title in July 2009. Outstanding prospect Fletcher given good workout by Filipino in bout that sees both boxers suffer cuts in head clashes. “Left Jab” Fletcher, 27, was a gold medal winner at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, where he beat future Olympic gold medalist James DeGale, and also represented Australia at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympics.
Acapulco, Mexico: Straw: Juan Palacios (29-3,1ND) W TKO 9 Armando Torres (16-9). Super Feather: Miguel Roman (35-8) W TKO 7 Abraham Rodriguez (23-11-4). Super Middle: Shawn Estrada (13-0) W TKO 3 Alvaro Enriquez (11-9-2). Rogers Mtagwa (27-14-2,1ND) W TKO 8 Pedro Navarette (26-13-3). Palacios surrendered his interim WBA title when he failed to make the weight. The 30-year-old Nicaraguan had his jab working well in the first, and they traded equally in the second. Torres was on the attack throughout the third. A clash of heads saw the Mexican go down, but he was given time to recover. The fourth was again shared, but Palacios took the fifth with his strong jab keeping Torres off balance. Palacios lost a point in the sixth for use of the head, but was starting to get on top. The eighth was all Palacios as Torres tired. The end came in the ninth as Palacios floored the Mexican three times to force the stoppage. Palacios has 22 wins by KO/TKO, and has won 18 of his last 19 fights. Before winning the interim WBA title by beating Sammy Gutierrez last May he had previously lost a split decision to Jose Antonio Aguirre for the WBC title in 2002 and a majority verdict to Thai Oleydong for the same title in November 2009. Now he has thrown the title away. Torres, 30, was not even rated by the WBA, but still got a title shot. “Mickey” Roman beats Mexican champion “Marvin” Rodriguez in toe-to-toe brawl. Neither fighter giving an inch in this battle. Roman seems to score a knockdown at the end of the third but the referee does not count. Both fighters badly cut on their eye brow and the Doctor examines Rodriguez’s injury but lets the fight continue. As Rodriguez tires Roman battering home punches from all angles and the referee stops the fight. Roman retains WBC Fecombox and wins Mexican title. One loss in his last eight for Roman, and that was to Jonathan Barros for the WBA secondary title in March. Rodriguez, also 25, had lost only one of his last eight going into the fight. Down the bill American Shawn Estrada and Tanzanian Rogers Mtagwa scored wins. Estrada, who lost to James DeGale at the 2008 Olympics, made it twelve by KO/TKO with a stoppage of poor Mexican Enriquez (4-8-1 in his last twelve) and “Tanzanian Tiger” Mtagwa returned to action, and to the winning column, with a stoppage of tough Mexican Navarette in the last round of their eight round contest. Mtagwa, 32, lost on points to Juan Manuel Lopez for the WBO super bantam title in October 2009 and in his last fight lost in two rounds to Yuriorkis Gamboa for the WBA secondary title in January 2010. Only three wins in his last twelve fights for Navarette, but only the second time in 42 fights that he has failed to last the distance.
Manukau City, New Zealand: Heavy: Monte Barrett (35-9-2) W PTS 12 David Tua (52-4-2). Barrett, 40 may have brought the curtain down on the career of Tua as he wins tight, unanimous verdict. Barrett builds lead through first three rounds using strong jab, and also inflicts a cut over Tua’s right eye. Tua doing better over following rounds but not doing enough and Barrett continuing to pick up points with the jab. Tua finally gets through and has Barrett hurt at end of tenth. Again in the eleventh Tua scores heavily having Barrett in trouble at the end of the round. Barrett exhausted and holding in last, but Tua puts him down with a combination. Barrett gets up and makes it to the bell. Scores 115-112 twice and 114-113. Barrett wins WBO Asia Pacific and WBO Orient titles. Barrett had failed to win any of his last five fights. Tua, who lost on points to Lennox Lewis for the WBC title in 2000, was unbeaten in 17 going in, including a draw with Barrett in July 2010.
Atlantic City, USA: Super Bantam: Alejandro Lopez (22-2) W PTS 12 Teon Kennedy (17-1). Light: Karl Dargan (10-0) W TKO 6 Juan Suazo (8-5-3). Welter: Yordenis Ugas (9-0) W PTS 6 Fernando Rodriguez (6-5). Big win for Mexican Lopez as he takes unanimous verdict over IBF No 3 Kennedy and wins USBA title. The light punching Mexican set, and maintained, a fast pace using clever lateral movement to off set the attacks of aggressor 25-year-old Kennedy. “Alex” Lopez, 24, starts to dominate the fight from the sixth scoring well with counters and busting up the face of Kennedy who just could not close the distance. Scores 117-111 twice and 115-113. Kennedy was said to have been hampered by a shoulder injury which he suffered when training for the bout. During the fight he also suffered a big gash on his left eyelid and his right eye, which started to swell in the sixth, was nearly closed by the end. Despite his impressive statistics, Lopez had lost a four round bout to Aaron Garcia in February, so this was quiet an upset. Former amateur star Dargan, 26, much too good for Suazo. Floors him in first with a left hook, and cuts him badly over the right eye in the second. Dargan continues to score heavily until the sixth when another volley of punches from Dargan brings the referee’s intervention. Dargan, a two-time US Amateur champion, and Pan American Games gold medal winner, could be a fighter with a great future but ten fights in four years is no way to build a career. Cuban Ugas, another former top amateur, boxed his way to a unanimous decision over Rodriguez, who gave him a good test. Scores 59-55 twice and 58-56. Ugas, 25 is a former World Cadet and Pan American Games champion and won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics.
Las Heras, Argentina: Light: Daniel Brizuela (22-1-2) W PTS 12 Julio Ruiz (13-4). Light Welter: Gumersindo Carrasco (15-0,1ND) W KO 2 Daniel Santos (13-6). Brizuela wins and collects vacant IBF Latino title but is not impressive. “Tatu” Brizuela, 25, has the skill and dominates when he keeps the fight at a distance, but too often he lets “Little Wolf” Ruiz inside where he scores well to the body and head with combinations. Brizuela doing the cleaner work but Ruiz strong at the end and always in the fight. Brizuela floored by a punch to the chest in the last, but the referee rules it a slip. Scores 118-111, 116-112 and 115-113. Brizuela still rebuilding after being blow away inside a round by Daniel Dorrego in 2009. Puncher Carrasco, 24, shaken in the first by a combination from the Brazilian, and twice turns away after clash of heads, and given time to recover. Carrasco fires back to even the round. Carrasco going forward throwing crude swings from both hands. With nine seconds left finally lands a heavy right to the chin. Santos slumps into sitting position on the bottom rope and Carrasco lands two more punches. Santos then goes down with both knees on the canvas and Carrasco lands two more punches when the Brazilian was clearly down. No disqualification. Santos watches the count on one knee and starts to get up at nine only to have the referee count ten when he is on his feet. Carrasco wins vacant IBF Latino and now has 13 wins by KO/TKO but is very crude and was lucky to have a “home” referee for this one.
Tlalnepantla, Mexico: Feather: Salvador Sanchez (25-4-3) W TKO 3 Adan Garcia (15-5-1). Light: Carlos Zarate Jr (14-0) W TKO 2 Jose Avila (7-6). Garcia had a good first round as he was going forward scoring with hooks to the body whilst Sanchez settled for fighting on the back foot and using his long jab. Different story in the second as Sanchez came forward from the bell forcing Garcia back with three/four punch combinations always finished off with wicked left hooks to the body. That punch put Garcia down at the end of the round and he was up at seven as the bell rung. Sanchez continued the assault in the third and another combination had Garcia reeling and the fight was stopped. Lanky lightweight Zarate, 23, makes it nine wins by KO/TKO with stoppage of Avila.
