Month: April 2015

American Terence Crawford (26-0, 18 KOs) stopped Thomas Dulorme (22-2, 12 KOs) in the sixth round to claim the vacant WBO light welterweight title on Saturday night at the University of Texas, Arlington, Texas.
Crawford dropped the Puerto Rican three times in the sixth round, before the referee waved off the bout.
Crawford took his time in the opening rounds, while Dulorme was the aggressor although he wasn’t able to land many punches. The unbeaten former WBO lightweight champion soon found…

Poland’s Andrzej Fonfara (27-3, 16 KOs) dropped and then stopped Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (48-2-1, 32 KOs) at the end of the ninth round on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Former WBC middleweight champion Chavez, who returned to the ring for the first time since March 2014 when he defeated Brian Vera by unanimous decision, was fighting at a catch weight of 172 pounds. But he never seemed to be able to deal with the size of Fonfara and was beaten to the punch…

Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) defeated Ruslan Provodnikov (27-4, 17 KOs) by majority decision in a hard-fought 12 round light welterweight contest on Saturday night at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, New York.
Matthysse claimed the points win by scores of 115-113 twice, while the third judge had it 114-114.
Argentina’s Matthysse made a strong start, getting off his punches as Provodnikov came right at him. Provodnikov was cut over his left eye after a head clash in the second…

Derry Mathews (38-9-2, 20 KOs) won the Interim WBA lightweight title after a hard-fought, unanimous points decision over late replacement David Luis  (19-3, 7 KOs) on Saturday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.
Mathews saw Cuba’s Richar Abril twice pull out of their world title fight due to illness and and just this week replacement Venezuelan Ismael Barroso was forced to pull out after failing to obtain a visa.
Mathews made the brighter start against his Canadian opponent and utilised…