Cruz extends to 5-0 with a one-sided drubbing of Salcido. Cruz landed 20 of 61 punches per round (10 of 34 jabs) and 39% of his power punches, nearly getting the stoppage in 10th vs. Salcido, who's never been stopped & landed just 13% of his…
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Lightweight contender Andy Cruz (5-0, 2 KOs) put on a masterclass performance, defeating Omar Salcido (20-2, 14 KOs) by a lopsided 10-round unanimous decision in their co-feature bout on Saturday night at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Chelsea Ballroom, in…
LAS VEGAS – The gold medal is already in Andy Cruz’s boxing cabinet. A world title moved a significant step closer Saturday night in the willing exchanges that paced him to a convincing lightweight victory over rugged Omar Salcido at The Cosmopolitan. It…
LAS VEGAS – Ernesto “Tito” Mercado wanted to announce his presence while WBC lightweight titleholder Shakur Stevenson sat ringside, and Mercado’s highlight-reel fourth-round TKO of former two-division champion Jose Pedraza did just that. “I want that punk right there,” Mercado said in the ring…
Light welterweight contender Ernesto Mercado (17-0, 16 KOs) made a statement tonight, stopping former world champion Jose ‘Sniper’ Pedraza (29-7-1, 14 KOs) by a fourth-round knockout in a scheduled 10-round fight on Saturday night at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Chelsea Ballroom, Las Vegas.
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COMMERCE, California – Undisputed flyweight champion Gabriela Fundora has told BoxingScene that she anticipates an April return to the ring. Fundora claimed all four belts in November as she stopped unified 28-year-old Argentinian titleholder Gabriela Celeste Alaniz in the seventh round. Fundora, 22,…
Tonight in Nottingham, unbeaten 140-pound star in the making Dalton Smith won the European title in hugely impressive fashion, with the Sheffield man wiping out Frenchman Walid Ouizza in the very first round. Smith, a big betting favorite to win tonight, never looked like failing…
Promoter Eddie Hearn has confirmed that there have been talks between Turki Al-Sheikh and light welterweight champions Richardson Hitchins and Teofimo Lopez for a unification fight next at 140. Hearn is confident that his fighter, IBF champion Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs) will defeat WBO belt-holder…
Dalton Smith, Conah Walker and Ellie Scotney each recorded victory at the Nottingham Arena in Nottingham, England, on Saturday evening. Each, also, made statements of varying degrees. CompuBox has attempted to tell each story. – Dalton Smith-Walid Ouizza Smith steamrolled Ouizza, landing 60 per cent…