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LOS ANGELES – Hip-hop icon Eminem warmed up the crowd at BMO Stadium on Saturday night with a brief concert to mark Riyadh Season's debut boxing event in the United States. Terence Crawford, the best fighter in the world, and Israil Madrimov, the WBA…

Cruz was only able to land 23% of his total punches and 27% of his power punches while Valenzuela landed 33% and 41% respectively. In addition to being more accurate, Valenzuela landed 53 more punches than Cruz and 26 more power punches than Cruz. Valenzuela…

LOS ANGELES – Tour de force Isaac Cruz saw his meteorotic rise come to a sudden crash Saturday night in Los Angeles courtesy of Jose Valenzuela, as the swarming brawler met his match against a precise marksman. Cruz (26-3-1, 18 KOs) may have had…

LOS ANGELES – Andy Ruiz Jr.’s quest to become a heavyweight champion once again will need some more work. Ruiz battled it out with Jarrell Miller at BMO Stadium on Saturday to a majority draw. The fight started strong but slowed down considerably in…

Ruiz started fast, out-landing Miller 47-40 over the first 4 rounds. From the fifth round on, Miller out-landed an increasingly exhausted Ruiz, 143-66. Miller achieved double digits in landed punches in 10 of the 12 rounds, while Ruiz reached double digits in 6 of the…

Bakole knocked Anderson down with an uppercut at the end of the first round in a round that Anderson seemed to be winning. Though Anderson landed 35 body punches, he could not deal with Bakole’s power, and Bakole knew it, throwing 195 power punches to…

Morrell out-landed Kalajdzic 134-102, but the fighters were separated by 3 or fewer landed punches in 7 of the 12 rounds. Kalajdzic out-landed Morrell 31-28 over rounds 10 through 12. The judges scored the fight 118-110 and 117-111 twice for Morrell, who landed 36 more…

LOS ANGELES – Martin Bakole put the next face of American heavyweight boxing to sleep Saturday at BMO Stadium, dropping “Big Baby” Jared Anderson three times to score a sensational technical knockout win.  The end of the fight came at the 2:07 mark of…

Cruz landed 40% of his total punches and 45% of his power punches. Moran seemed to hurt Cruz with a left hook with 25 seconds left in the fourth round, but Cruz held a 49-28 power punches landed advantage through five rounds. Cruz seemed to…