Results from Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY
O’SHAQUIE FOSTER SD12 over ROBSON CONCEICAO
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O’Shaquie Foster earned a 12-round split decision over Robson Conceicao to win back the WBC super featherweight title on Friday night in Verona, NY. The fight was very close, as was their last one despite the narrative surrounding that one, but Foster did enough to earn the nod this time. Official scores were 115-113 Foster, 115-113 Conceicao, 115-113 Foster.
Light heavyweight Padraig McCrory improved to 19-1 with 9 KOs with a points win over Leonard Carrillo (17-6, 16 KOs) on Friday in Belfast, Northern Ireland. McCrory scored a knockdown in round one but ended up with a 10-round decision. This was the 36-year old McCrory’s first action since a stoppage loss to Edgar Berlanga in February.
Full story on BoxingScene.com by Tris Dixon here:
Padriag McCrory outscores Leonard Carrillo in ProBox TV’s Belfast debut – Boxing News
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PROBOXTV staged their wildly successful Wednesday night fights again this week and had another series of hotly contested bouts. The headliner saw Shurretta Metcalf win the IBF bantamweight title from Miyo Yoshida with a 10-round unanimous decision. Metcalf also beat Yoshida by decision last year before Yoshida had the title.
Lightweight Mykquan Williams was the star of the night as he showed a wide array of skills in stopping Lavisas Williams in eight rounds. Mykquan scored two knockdowns at the end of the first round and outboxed his foe consistently the rest of the way. Lavisas Williams battled valiantly throughout, but was outworked by his skillful opponent. A third knockdown in the eighth round ended the contest.
SHURRETTA METCALF UD10 over MIYO YOSHIDA
Shurretta Metcalf (14-4-1, 2 KOs) won the IBF bantamweight title from Miyo Yoshida (17-4, 0 KOs) via unanimous decision on Wednesday night in the main event of ProBox TV’s card. It was an evenly contested fight throughout with the scores coming in at 96-94, 97-93 and 99-91. The third card is ridiculous.
InTheCorner.net had it five rounds apiece.
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Tagged Miyo Yoshida, ProBox TV, Shurretta Metcalf
IBF junior middleweight champion Bakrahm Murtazaliev stopped Tim Tzyui in devastating fashion in the main event of Friday night’s PBC card on Amazon Prime. It was a spectacular showing for the 31-year old originally from Russia, as Tzyu’s come-forward style was perfectly made for him.
The Murtzaliev – Tzyu bout headlined the three televised fights on Amazon Prime, with one poor judging performance the only drawback of the event. All three fights featured plenty of action and the presentation was as good as we can expect from boxing telecasts these days. No major complaints.
BAKRAHM MURTAZALIEV KO3 TIM TZYU
Bakrahm Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) showed devastating power with both hands in stopping former champion Tim Tzyu (24-2, 17 KOs) in three rounds on Friday night in Orlando, FL. Tzyu was down three times in round two and once in round three. As Murtazaliev was pouring it on, Tzyu’s corner threw in the towel.
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There was plenty of boxing action overseas this weekend with the massive Beterbiev/Bivol matchup in Saudi Arabia while two separate championship cards were staged in Japan.
JUNTO NAKATANI KO6 OVER PETCH SOR CHITPATTANA
WBC bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani scored an explosive sixth-round KO over challenger Petch Sor Chitpattana in the second of two boxing cards from Japan this weekend. Nakatani (29-0, 22 KOs) outclassed his fellow southpaw and used his faster, heavier hands to decide the fight at the 2:59 mark with a second knockdown.
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Tagged Artur Beterbiev, Dimitry Bivol, Seyia Tsutsumi, Takuma Inoue
At the end of a long fight card that went way late into the night, Mikaela Mayer decisioned Sandy Ryan over 10 rounds in one of the best fights I’ve seen this year. Despite no knockdowns, this was an all-action contest with ebbs and flows throughout and nearly no slowdown from either fighter.
Mayer’s margins of victory were 97-93 and 96-94 with one judge seeing it at 95-95, making it a majority decision. I had it 96-94 Ryan and I feel that at worst for Ryan it was a draw, but 96-94 Mayer doesn’t bother me at all. 97-93 is getting off the trail a bit.
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Tagged Bruce Carrington, Damian Sosa, Mikaela Mayer, Sandy Ryan, Sulaiman Segawa, Xander Zayas
Former 154-lb champions Jarrett Hurd and Jeison Rosario fought to a 10-round draw on ProBox TV’s Wednesday night fights. Campaigning at middleweight, both fighters looked to get into the title mix with a good performance over a fellow former champ, but it didn’t work out that way for either.
Official scores were 96-94 Hurd, 96-94 Rosario, 95-95 even.
Hurd had the better jab but didn’t use it all that often and failed to follow up throughout the fight. Rosario put together the better combinations and sustained attacks, but not nearly as well as he did in his championship days.
Both fighters showed far less energy than they had in their glory days and even a big finish by Rosario in the 10th looked more like it was due to Hurd being out of gas.
Jarrett Hurd won his first belt at 154 with a 9th-round stoppage of Tony Harrison in 2017. After three successful defenses, Hurd lost multiple belts to Julian “J-Rock” Williams in 2019.
J-Rock promptly lost the belts to Rosario in 2020, then later that year Rosario gave them up to Jemell Charlo. Rosario was stopped in three of his next six fights.
After losing to Williams in 2019, Hurd went 2-2 with one of the losses by knockout.
Those setbacks made this a logical fight where the winner, if he could look impressive, would be able to vault back into title contention. Neither fighter looked impressive and there was no winner.
ProBox TV, on the other hand, was pretty impressive. Fights on YouTube for no subscription fee is a welcome sight in this era of streaming services and pay-per-views. The undercard fights were unknowns, but there was a lot of action. Over 10,000 people watched this event. This was my first time and I’ll be back in the future.
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Former two-belt champion Jose Ramirez returned from his first professional loss with a unanimous decision victory over Jose Pedraza in Fresno, CA on Friday night. The WBC super lightweight eliminator was a contest of Pedraza’s tactical sharp-shooting vs. Ramirez’ aggression and superior power with the judges ruling in favor of Ramirez by identical scores of 116-112.
InTheCorner.Net had it 115-113 for Ramirez.
In his first time back in the ring since losing his WBC and WBO 140-lb titles to Josh Taylor in May of 2021, Ramirez (27-1, 17 KOs) came out sharp and clearly had the strength advantage. Pedraza (29-4, 14 KOs), a former champion at super featherweight and lightweight, fought from a southpaw stance and used excellent head movement and counter shots to negate Ramirez’ aggression. Through six rounds the fight was very close and Pedraza had near-perfect timing with his left hand as Ramirez rushed in or backed away from an attack.
The exchanges tended to favor Ramirez’ heavier hands and his pressing attack often looked like he was controlling the action. But Pedraza was tactically brilliant with his timing and slick movement and many of the rounds were hard to score.
Jose Ramirez rose to the stiff challenge and earned a clear victory with the official scores being very reasonable. It was clear that a slick lefty still gives him trouble and is able to land solid shots consistently. It was Pedraza’s fifth fight at 140 but if he had packed more power into his shots he could very well have done the kind of damage that Josh Taylor did last year in scoring two knockdowns.
UNDERCARD
While Ramirez was the headliner and hometown hero, another local fighter made his professional debut on the undercard. Olympic silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. stopped Allen Melson (6-4, 3 KOs) in two wild rounds. Torrez decked Melson in the first round, one of two times that Melson went down awkwardly. The second time, both corners thought referee Marcos Rosales waved off the fight but he was just signaling “no-knockdown.” The ring had to be cleared to finish the final seconds of round one. A headbutt left a cut near Torrez’ right eye and his first trip back to the stool as a pro required work from his cutman. Melson again came at Torrez with a sloppy attack in round two and got decked twice. Rosales called it off at 1:23.
Also…
Joet Gonzalez (25-2, 15 KOs) won by TKO9 over Jeo Santisima (21-4, 18 KOs)
Gabe Flores Jr. (21-1, 7 KOs) a MD10 over Abraham Montoya (20-3-1, 14 KOs)
Hector Tanajara Jr. (19-1-1, 5 KOs) and Miguel Contreras (11-1-1, 6 KOs) fought to a draw
Karlos Balderas (12-1, 11 KOs) stopped Aeilo Mesquita (20-7-1, 18 KOs) in two rounds
Javier Martinez (6-0, 2 KOs) UD6 over Donte Stubbs (6-4, 2 KOs)
Charlie Sheehy (2-0, 2 KOs) stopped Johnny Bernal (2-1, 2 KOs) with a TKO1
Antonio Mireles (3-0, 3 KOs) stopped Brandon Hughes (2-1, 2 KOs) in 2
The lightweight title action continued on Saturday night as Devin Haney successfully defended his WBC championship with a hard-fought unanimous decision over JoJo Diaz. Haney used superior boxing skills to counter the former 130-lb champion and retain his belt by scores of 117-111, 117-111 and 116-112. InTheCorner.net had it 117-111 for Haney (27-0, 15 KOs).
The plan for Diaz (32-2-1, 15 KOs) appeared to be to pressure the champion but Haney’s sharp-shooting skills made that difficult to sustain. When Diaz was able to get in on the chest of Haney and throw multiple shots, he was able to do damage, mostly with the left hand. But Haney controlled the action from the outside for long stretches of the fight and landed solid shots around the guard of Diaz. He also worked the body faithfully throughout the fight.
Diaz, needing something dramatic, wobbled Haney early in the 12th but was unable to follow it up. The deficit was too big at that point, as Haney had piled up a big points lead.
Haney’s win was the middle piece of back-to-back-to-back lightweight title action. George Kambosos Jr. dethroned Teofimo Lopez the prior weekend and Gervonta Davis won a grueling match against Isaac Cruz on Sunday night. Still to come, Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. Richard Commey on Saturday, December 11th.
George Kambosos Jr. and Teofimo Lopez finally got into the ring on Saturday night and after many delays leading up to the contest, Kambosos earned a split decision victory to take Lopez’ lightweight titles. Kambosos (20-0, 10 KOs) dropped Lopez (16-1, 12 KOs) in the first round, then survived a 10th round knockdown in earning the victory.
Official scores were 115-111, 115-112 and 113-114 in favor of the new champion from Australia.
The wait was worth it for boxing fans as the action was fierce from the opening bell. Lopez came out, as promised, going for a first-round knockout. It didn’t work as Kambosos was too disciplined to get caught with the wild shots Lopez was throwing, but the now-former champion got tagged himself in the waning seconds with a right hand that put him on the canvas. Lopez got up with a smile on his face but Kambosos landed flush again just before the bell.
Good morning pic.twitter.com/Y4ScD4MbVQ
— Sᴡᴀɪɴ (@TheLiverPunch) November 28, 2021
Lopez’ corner showed after that tumultuous first round that they weren’t prepared for such a battle. Told to go out there and finish him in one breath, and to relax in the next, Teofimo went out in a more measured fashion, but Kambosos held his own in the exchanges, which must have been a surprise to Lopez. The challenger was able to take Lopez’ power shots and return fire, scoring repeatedly with a counter right hand.
The pattern continued for the next several rounds, with Lopez throwing the harder shots but doing little or no damage to Kambosos. All the while, Kambosos was getting a lot done with counter shots and his own attack, which featured a triple left hook at one point. It was clear that Kambosos was not intimidated in the least and was here to win.
Lopez got it going in round nine and continued in round 10, when he floored the challenger with a clubbing right as Kambosos ducked away. Lopez followed up but wasn’t able to finish or even score another knockdown.
The back-to-back rounds for Lopez made up a lot of ground on the scorecards as he had a three-point edge over rounds nine and 10, but he apparently took round 11 off, for whatever reason. Kambosos finished strong, taking the 11th and 12th, to earn the victory. Both men were marked, with Lopez having a serious cut above his left eye.
The crowd at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater that had cheered Lopez enthusiastically at the beginning of the fight booed loudly when he refused to accept defeat in the in-ring interview afterwards. Having coming out on the bad end of a decision after a battle like that, disappointment is understandable, but it sounded horrible. Kambosos made it even worse for Lopez by showing all the class and graciousness in the world while both were being interviewed.
"I won this fight" – Teófimo López 😮#LópezKambososJr pic.twitter.com/OTOfKkVl1N
— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) November 28, 2021
No rematch clause for this one, and Lopez is likely moving up in weight anyway. One possible matchup for Kambosos would be WBC belt-holder Devin Haney.
