Month: April 2017

Mexico’s Oscar Valdez (22-0, 19 KOs) battled to a unanimous decision victory over Miguel Marriaga (25-2, 21 KOs) and retained his WBO featherweight title on Saturday night at StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Valdez won by scores of 119-108, 116-111 and 118-109.
Valdez nailed the Colombian with power shots in the early rounds, but Marriaga took them well and began to fire back.
After he failed to score a KO in the first three rounds, Valdez was forced to box but the taller Marriaga used…

Former IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter (27-2-1, 17 KOs) stopped former IBF/WBC champion Andre Berto (31-5, 24 KOs) in the 9th round in a world title eliminator on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Porter’s harder shots dominated the action on the way to the TKO victory, which earns him a rematch with WBA/WBC 147lb champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs).
Porter was cut over his left eye from an accidental head clash in the second, but later in the round he…

Avtandil Khurtsidze (33-2-2, 22 KOs) knocked out previously unbeaten Tommy Langford (18-1, 6 KOs) in the fifth round on Saturday night at the Leicester Arena.
Khurtsidze captured the vacant WBO interim middleweight belt and will now challenge world titleholder Billy Joe Saunders next.
After Khurtsidze landed some hard blows in the opening round, Langford utilised his height and reach advantage by scoring with jabs from distance in the second.
Langford was doing a good job of avoiding the…