Month: May 2015

Former WBA/WBC light middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) knocked out American James Kirkland (32-2, 28 KOs) in the third round on Saturday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
The Mexican star dropped Kirkland three times in a thrilling slugfest before the referee stopped the bout.
In the opening round, Kirkland came out firing, backing Canelo in a corner and landing blows. But Canelo withstood the onslaught and was soon landed his heavy shots, dropping…

Russia’s Fedor Chudinov (13-0, 10 KOs) defeated former world middleweight champion Felix Sturm (39-5-3, 18 KOs) by a split decision for the vacant WBA super middleweight title on Saturday night at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany.
The scores were 118-110, 116-112 for Chudinov, and 116-112 for Sturm.
It was a really close fight until Chudinov dominated the last four rounds over the tiring Sturm.
Sturm was sent sprawling back against the ropes with a left-right combo at the end of the ninth…

Undefeated American Omar Figueroa (25-0-1, 18 KOs) outpointed Scotland’s Ricky Burns (37-5-1, 11 KOs) on Saturday in a light welterweight bout on Saturday afternoon at the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas.
The former world champions battled hard but it was Figueroa’s all-action style that earned him scores of 116-110 from two judges and 117-109 from the third.
Burns was deducted points for holding in rounds eight and eleven by referee Laurence Cole.
Also on the card, Britain’s Jamie McDonnell…