boxing

[short ornery norwegian]

boxing action on Saturday (Sept 21)

in London:
Daniel Dubois wins on 5th round KO over Anthony Joshua for the IBF Heavyweight title. (the IBF belt was vacated when Oleksandr Usyk chose to fight Tyson Fury instead of Dubois, who was the IBF mandatory challenger.)

other results on the card--
--Hamzah Sheeraz defeated Tyler Denny by TKO in 2nd round in a middleweight bout
--Joshua Buatsi defeated Willy Hutchinson by split decision; wins vacant WBO interim light heavyweight title
--Title fight: Anthony Cacace defeated Josh Warrington by unanimous decision and retains IBF junior lightweight title
--Josh Kelly defeated Ishmael Davis by majority decision in a middleweight bout
--Josh Padley defeated Mark Chamberlain by unanimous decision in a lightweight bout
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on a card in Arizona, in the main event, at Super Middleweight, Jaime Munguia won on KO in the 10th round over Erik Bazinyan.

on the undercard - among the results
--Richard Torrez Jr. defeated Joey Dawejko by fifth-round DQ in a heavyweight bout. (Dawejko disqualified for repeatedly spitting out his mouth guard...)
--Emiliano Vargas defeated Larry Fryers by TKO in the 5th round in a junior welterweight bout

 

[short ornery norwegian]

on Saturday, there was a unification fight in the Light Heavyweight division, with Artur Beterbiev (WBC, WBO & IBF Champ) vs Dmitry Bivol (WBA champ). Beterbiev becomes the undisputed champion on a majority decision. one judge had it a draw, the other two gave Beterbiev the decision - 115-113 and 116-112. (onlookers thought the 116-112 score was off-base. I would have given it to Bivol.)

Bivol seemed to control the early rounds with his jab and counter-punching. Beterbiev landed heavier shots and did come on late in the fight. for Bivol, the first loss of his career. for Beterbiev, his first fight that did not end in a KO.

in the undercard:
**Fabio Wardley won by 1st round KO over Frazer Clarke for the British Heavyweight title.
**Jai Opetaia wins 6th round TKO over Jack Massey for the IBF Cruiserweight title
**Chris Eubank Jr. wins 7th round TKO over Kamil Szeremeta at Middleweight.
**Skye Nicolson wins unanimous decision over Raven Chapman for WBC Women's Featherweight title.
**and this has to be seen to be believed - Light Heavyweights Ben Whittaker and Liam Cameron were in the 7th round when the two got tangled up and somehow flipped up and over the ropes and out of the ring. Whittaker left the arena in a wheelchair. the fight was ruled a draw.
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coming up - if you consider this a valid fight - Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul in November. and Oleksandr Usky vs Tyson Fury in their Heavyweight rematch in December.