February 16:
Neuquen, Argentina: Middle: Billi Godoy (20-0) W KO 5 Sergio Sanders (17-5-2). Prospect Godoy, 24, retains interim WBC Fecarbox title for fourth time with kayo of Sanders. Godoy trying to take out Sanders from the first bell and hands out punishment over first three rounds. Sanders has a better fourth, but volley in fifth puts him down and out. ?El Nino?, who holds the Austrian International title! has beaten Javier Mamani and Francisco Mora in recent fights so is making good progress. Sanders, 31, on the slide with one win in his last seven fights.
February 18:
Ljubljana, Slovenia: Welter: Jan Zaveck (31-1,1ND) W KO 5 Paul Delgado (25-10-1). Light Heavy: Denis Simcic (26-1) W PTS 10 Sandro Siproshvili (24-7). Predictably easy second defence of his IBF title for Zaveck. Thirty-four ?year-old Slovenian floors poor Delgado twice in second round, and floors and finishes the cut and battered Delgado in the fifth.
The Cape Verde-born Delgado, also 34, is known as ?The Truth? and the truth, obvious before the fight, is that he had no right challenging for the title. Simcic, 29, wins wide unanimous verdict over Georgian. Now seven wins for Simcic since losing to WBA title challenger Viacheslav Uzelkov in three rounds in June 2008. Simcic retains WBFederation International title. Siproshvili, 28, lost to Ola Afolabi in October and to Herbie Hide in 2009.
San Francisco, USA: Super Feather: Eloy Perez (20-0-2,1ND) W PTS 8 Roger Gonzalez (27-4). Light: Mercito Gesta (21-0-1) W TKO 3 Genaro Trazancos (22-14). Useful scalp for ?The Prince? as 23-year-old Perez proves too fast and sharp for (the no longer) ?Speedy Gonzalez. Not a puncher, Perez, rated No 2 by the WBO, wins every round to take the eight rounder on 80-72 from all three judges. That betters the results from his last two fights, each of which he won on a majority verdict.
Third loss in a row for Gonzalez. Filipino prospect Gesta goes over old ground as he batters game Mexican Trazancos to defeat. Southpaw Gesta,23, had kayoed 36-year-old Trazancos in seven rounds in August, but this time the Mexican only managed to stand up to the flashing fist of ?No Mercy? for three rounds. In the third he was shaken to his boots by a left uppercut and the Doctor called it off at the end of the round. Only two wins in his last 13 for Trazancos, and nine of those loses by KO/TKO.
Salisbury, USA: Middle: Fernando Guerrero (21-0) W PTS 10 Derrick Findley (17-5). Welter: Shawn Porter (18-0) W PTS 10 Anges Adjho (25-5). Dominican-born southpaw ?Superman? Guerrero pleases the fans in his adopted home town, as his speed and superior technique allow him to control the bout from start to finish. Findley just could not get untracked, and whilst never hurt, was never in the fight. Scores 99-91 twice and 99-90 as Guerrero, 24, somehow rated No 2 by the WBO, retains NABO title for the first time. Findley has been in tough losing previously to Andre Ward, Andre Dirrell and Matt Korobov. Also easy for Porter who wins on work rate as he lets his hands go fast and often. Benin-born Adjho looking for one big punch which never lands and loses a wide unanimous decision as a result. Scores 99-91 twice and 97-93. This was a good test for ?Showtime?, former National Golden Gloves champion and Olympic alternate, who retains his NABO title for the first time. Adjho has lost his last three, but the combined records of his conquerors add up to 71-3.
Flemington, Australia: Light Middle: Frank Lo Porto (14-4-2) W TKO 4 Harry Venka (8-4-1). Welter: Todd Kidd (4-0) W KO 1 Jason Kanofski (13-6-3). Super Middle: Jarrod Fletcher (7-0) W PTS 6 Kashif Mumtaz (7-22-1). Lo Porto retains PABA title for first time as he floors Indian-born New Zealander Venka in the third and twice in fourth to force stoppage.
Only one loss in his last ten fights for 33-year-old Lo Porto. Kidd, 25, one of the most successful of recent Australian amateurs, puts away Kanofski inside a round. Fletcher, 27, who beat Craig McEwan and James Degale on his way to a Commonwealth gold medal in 2006, goes the distance for the first time and wins every round. Mumtaz was born in Pakistan, but now lives in New Zealand.
Ceccano, Italy: Light Welter: Samuele Esposito (7-1) W TKO 4 Marino Bucciarelli (7-4). Welter: Sven Paris (28-5) W PTS 6 Lajos Orsos (1-25-1). Two relative novices contest Italian national title. The chunky little Esposito going forward from the beginning and shakes and hurts Bucciarelli in opening two rounds.
Swings too wildly looking for finish in third, but floors Bucciarelli at start of fourth. Challenger slips to the floor a couple more times to avoid Esposito?s attacks, and the referee stops the fight. First defence for Esposito, 25, second shot at title for Bucciarelli. Former undefeated Italian welter and light middle champ ?White Warrior? Paris, 30, in his first fight since July 2009 eases back with a comfortable points win over 37-year-old Hungarian.
Navojoa, Mexico: Super Fly: Juan Francisco Estrada (18-0) W TKO 2 Jorge Cardenas (16-12-4). Middle: Luis Ramon Campas (96-15-1) W PTS 10 Matt Vanda (43-13). Light Welter: Mahroni Montes(20-0-1) W PTS 8 Ivan Alvarez (8-2). Estrada, 20, overwhelms Cardenas.
Scores two knockdowns in the first and then finished the fight with a body punch in the second. Now 15 by KO/TKO for Estrada. Former IBF light middle champion Campas, 39, closes in on 100 wins, and gains revenge for a 2005 defeat, as he wins comfortably on a unanimous decision over 33-year-old Matt Vanda. Montes struggled in the early rounds against Alvarez, but stages a strong finish to win a clear unanimous decision.
Ponce, Puerto Rico: Light Middle: Carlos Quintana (28-3) W TKO 9 Yoryi Estrella (10-5-2). Welter: Jonathan Gonzalez (12-0) W KO 1 Chad Greenleaf (13-18-1).Feather: Luis Orlando Del Valle (12-0) W KO 6 Irvin Hernandez (3-5-1). ?El Indio? returns with a win after ten months of inactivity since losing to Andre Berto for the WBC welter title. Shows rust and is unimpressive, but is just too good for game Dominican Estrella.
Southpaw Quintana,34, sprang a big surprise when he took a unanimous decision over Paul Williams for the WBO welter title in 2008. That peak did not last long as Williams stopped Quintana in 135 seconds just two months later. Quintana also lost to Miguel Cotto for the vacant WBA title in 2006. Twenty-one-year-old Gonzalez fed an easy one in his first scheduled ten round fight, and kayos poor Greenleaf late in the first round.
All twelve wins for ?Mantequilla? Gonzalez by KO/TKO, five in the first round, including a stoppage in three rounds of Quintana victim Estrella. As a former Pan American silver medalist and Olympian, he needs better opposition. ?Orlandito?, another former top amateur, makes it ten by KO/TKO. Del Valle, who fought for the USA as an amateur is a former National Golden Gloves champion.
Goya, Argentina: Light Welter: Martin Coggi (25-4-1) W PTS 7 Ricardo Chamorro (19-36-3). A strange one this for Coggi?s return to the ring after six months of inactivity. ?The Prince? on his way to a comfortable points win in the eight rounder. However, due to problems with the ring canvas warping, both fighters kept falling over, so it was halted at the end of the seventh and the points went to Coggi on scores of 69-66, 68-65 and 68-66.
February 19:
Las Vegas, USA: Bantam: Nonito Donaire (26-1) W TKO 2 Fernand Montiel (44-3-2). Welter: Mike Jones (24-0) W PTS 12 Jesus Soto Karass (24-6-3,1ND). Welter: Mark Melligan (21-2) W PTS 12 Gabriel Martinez (27-2-1,1ND). Welter: Mike Alvarado (29-0) W TKO 4 Dean Harrison (16-5). Feather: Alejandro Lopez ( ) W . Light Welter: Mickey Bey (16-0-1) DREW 8 Jose Hernandez (10-4-1).
This highly anticipated match was decided by one thunderous left hook from Donaire which spun Montiel round and dumped him on the canvas. By some miracle Montiel managed to drag himself off the floor and incredibly the referee allowed it to continue, but as soon as Donaire jumped on the helpless Mexican the referee stopped the fight. Donaire, 28, looking bigger and stronger, was going for the big punch in the first round and landed a good right.
Montiel spent most of the round on the retreat only opening up in the last few seconds. The Mexican changed his tactics in the second and began going forward and scoring well with quick accurate jabs. As Montiel moved forward he threw an overhand right and Donaire came inside it with a devastating left which landed just under Montiel?s right cheek and effectively ended the fight.
Donaire wins the WBC and WBO titles. It was the first time that Montiel, a three division champion, had been beaten inside the distance, and he suffered a fractured jaw. Philadelphian Jones, 27, impresses. Pacing himself better than he did in his majority verdict over Soto Karass in November, he takes a unanimous verdict on scores of 117-111, 116-112 and 115-113.
Soto Karass, 28, was hampered by cuts over both eyes from the third round, but hung in there and played his part in a tough scrap. Jones, rated No 2 by the WBA and WBO, used his superior speed, body punches and technique to retain his NABA, NABO and WBC Continental Americas titles. Filipino southpaw Melligan, 24, takes two attempts to make the weight but, dominates against fellow-prospect Martinez.
Melligan takes the early rounds and finishes strongly. Has Mexican Martinez, 23, cut and hurts him in the seventh. Can?t apply the finish and settles for unanimous points victory. Scores 99-91 twice and 98-92. Only one loss, a split decision to Michel Rosales, in his last 16 fights for Melligan. Only other loss for Martinez was to WBC No 1 Saul Alvarez. Alvarado, 30, beats Brit Harrison , 27, who retires in his corner after the fourth round.
After giving Alvarado some early problems, Harrison takes punishment and is cut over both eyes. With his eyesight impaired by the cuts, retires. Now 21 wins by KO/TKO for Alvarado, including eight of his last nine, and four defeats in his last five for Harrison. Bey, 27, just can?t seem to get his career going. The former 2004 US Olympic trials winner struggles to majority draw with tall, tough Hernandez. Scores 78-74 for Bey and 76-76 twice, but Bey looked to have lost this one, and was lucky. This was the first fight for Bey since December 2009. Texan Hernandez had lost his last three.
Stuttgart, Germany: Felix Sturm (35-2-1) W TKO 7 Ronnie Hearns (26-2). Heavy: Manuel Charr (17-0) W TKO 5 Jon Pasi (9-19-2). Predictable result, but Hearns gives it a try. Sturm sweeps first two rounds. Hearns gets into the fight in third, but after that a matter of time as Sturm picks his punches and slowly grinds Hearns down. A big right in the seventh has Hearns helpless and the fight is stopped.
Due to contract problems this Sturm?s first fight since April 2009 and he retains real WBA title. Sturm, 32, upgraded, in cynical WBA maneuver, to super champ, even though he does not hold any other title. Hearns had done nothing of note since stoppage loss to Harry Joe Yorgey, but rated and allowed the title fight on the strength of his father?s name. Lebanese-born Charr has it easy as he floors poor German Pasi twice in the fifth and forces stoppage.
London, England: Welter: Craig Watson (20-3) W PTS 12 John O?Donnell (24-2). Light Welter: Ashley Theopane (29-4-1) W PTS 12 Lenny Daws (21-2-2). Heavy: Tyson Fury (14-0) W KO 5 Marcelo Nascimento (13-1).All southpaw fight sees current Commonwealth light middle champion, and former welterweight champion, Watson, 28, win vacant British welter title, and gain revenge for an earlier defeat, as he takes unanimous verdict over former undefeated Commonwealth champion O?Donnell. Watson makes better start with fast combinations which take O?Donnell out of his stride.
O?Donnell gets into it in the middle rounds, but Watson takes over again and has enough rounds in the bag to hold off finish from O?Donnell in the last round. Scores 117-112 twice and 116-113. O?Donnell had taken Watson?s Commonwealth welterweight title on a split decision in 2009. Watson was the last guy to register a win over WBC light middle title challenger Matthew Hatton, winning a unanimous verdict in the defence of his Commonwealth welterweight title in 2008.
Daws starts well and his work rate looks to have him in front. It all changes in the ninth as Theophane, 30, floors Daws with a right hook. Daws, 32, beats the count, but goes down again. Big round for Theophane and he goes on to win unanimous verdict to lift British title. Scores 115-111 twice and 115-112. Only defeat in his last nine for ?Treasure? was on a split decision to Danny Garcia. Fury, 22, has it easy as he floors overrated Brazilian for nine in first. Showing growing maturity, Fury then boxes for three rounds, using his height, 6?9?, and reach, to dominate and then flattens Nascimento with a right in the fifth.
London, England: Heavy: John McDermott (26-7) W TKO 1 Larry Olubamiwo (10-2). Light Welter: Frankie Gavin (9-0) W TKO 7 Michael Lomax (17-4-1). Huge win for McDermott. After four straight losses McDermott, 30, badly needing a win gets it in style as he floors favoured Olubamiwo, 32, twice and halts him in just 75 seconds. Olubamiwo comes out looking for a quick finish, but is shaken and then floored by a right.
Gets up, but is floored again, and although he makes it back to his feet is in no condition to continue. Very impressive win for former World amateur champion Gavin, 25, as he halts fellow southpaw Lomax, who comes as a late substitute for James Cook. Gavin?s speed, accurate jab and hurtful body shots put him in control from the first round. Lomax has some success in fifth and sixth but all-out attack by Gavin in seventh brings the referees intervention.
Rosarito, Mexico: Super Feather: Alejandro Sanabria (27-1-1) W PTS 12 Rocky Juarez (28-8-1). Light: Pablo Cano (21-0) W KO 4 Jorge Romero (17-6). Upset as Mexican Sanabria floors and outpoints world rated Juarez. Sanabria had looked ordinary in drawing with Abraham Rodriguez and losing to Robin Castellanos, but this one puts him high in the ratings. Scores 117-111, 116-111 and 114-113.
Once rated as a great prospect, this could be the end for 30-year-old Texan. Olympic silver medalist Juarez won his first 23 fights, but the nearest he has come to winning a world title was a draw with Chris John for the WBA feather title. Cano hits too hard for Romero, 20, and finishes him in fourth. Now 16 by KO/TKO for 21-year-old Cano. Very few of ?Koky? Romero?s fights go the distance. He has won 15 by KO/TKO and lost six the same way.
Iztacalco, Mexico: Fly: Oscar Blanquet (26-3-1) W TKO 1 Josue Vega (16-6). WBA No 7 Blanquet overwhelms substitute Vega scoring three knockdowns. Blanquet makes it ten by KO/TKO in a row and the fifth defence of his WBC Continental Americas title.
Villa del Dique, Argentina: Super Middle: Pablo Farias (17-0) W TKO 3 Cleber Alves (8-4). Light: Daniel Brizuela (21-1-2) DREW 6 Gustavo Bermudez (10-6). No contest really as ?Pokemon? outclasses poor Brazilian. A left to the chin puts Alves down for a short in the first. Overhand right hands put the crude and limitedAlves down twice in the second.
Another right floors him in the third and the referee stops the fight. Rated No 1 in Argentina, the 23-year-old has ten wins by KO/TKO, and retained the WBC and WBO Latino titles.Farias is a stocky short-armed puncher but he seems one-paced and slow. Tough night for prospect Brizuela against ordinary Bermudez.
Dramatic first round sees the left eye of Bermudez closed and Olympian Brizuela knocked down and almost out by a left cross. Fight goes back and forth with neither really dominating and draw seemed a fair result. 57 ? – 57 ? , 58-57 ? , 57 ? -58 ? . Brizuela, ranked No 5 in Argentina should have been able to get past Bermudez with ease. Bermudez was kayoed in one round by Jonathan Barros in his last fight.
Newark, USA: Heavy: Mariusz Wach (24-0) W KO 3 Jon Haggler (23-4). No problems for 6?7 ?? tall Pole. He softens up Haggler for two rounds then cuts loose in and a heavy right floors Haggler and referee tills the full count. At 31, Wach will need to move up to better opposition soon. Ignore Hagglers impressive looking record, as it was built on the North Carolina circuit.
Liege, Belgium: Bantam: Stephen Jamoye (20-2) W TKO 8 Anthony Mathias (28-18-2). Young Jamoye bounces back from loss to Jamie McDonnell with stoppage of travelling 32-year-old Tanzanian. Jamoye, 21, has been in tough fights with Tomoki Kameda and European champion McDonnell, but has shown he can hold his own in this company.
Mississauga, Canada: Welter: Victor Puiu (19-1-2) W PTS 10 Junior Witter (37-4-2). Light Logan McGuinness (14-0-1) W TKO 4 Hector Avila (47-6,2ND). At his best Witter can be a flashing talent, at his worst a frustrating enigma. This was one of the latter. Puiu kept the pressure on, and after a good start former WBC light welter champion Witter, 36, with some flashes of his old skills, began to tire quickly.
He resorted to holding and wrestling and was finally deducted a point in the ninth for holding. Puiu (who boxes as Lupo) won a majority verdict on scores of 97-92, 96-94, 95-95. This was Witter?s first fight since losing in nine rounds to Devon Alexander for the vacant WBC title in 2009 and he blew whatever miniscule chance there was of him challenging Amir Khan for the WBA title.
Romanian Lupo, 32, who also had some rust to shed, as this was his first fight in ten months, wins the ridiculous WBC International Silver belt. McGuinness impressive as he drops Dominican veteran with a body shot and the fight is stopped. First defence of his NABA title for McGuinness and a big improvement on his lucky draw with Walter Estrada in May. Avila, now 38, was considered a hot prospect when he won a silver medal at the World Junior championships in 19990 and went on to win his first 19 fights, 17 by KO/TKO, but then lost his way.
Puerto Vallarata, Mexico: Bantam: Tomoki Kameda (18-0) W PTS 12 German Meraz (29-18-1). Kameda has little trouble with modest Meraz. Punches too hard, is too busy and walks away with a wide unanimous verdict on scores of 119-109 twice and 119-110. ?Mexicanito?, the brother of the two world title winners, wins vacant NABF title.
Tuscaloosa, USA: Heavy: Deontay Wilder (15-0) W TKO 2 DeAndrey Abron (15-7). Yet another quick win for former Olympic bronze medalist Wilder. Too big for little Abron, and batters away until the referee stops it in second. Wilder, 25, and 6?7? tall, still has 100% record of wins by KO/TKO, but sixth loss in a row for former WBO light heavyweight challenger Abron.
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Light: Matias Gomez (22-0) W DIS 3 Fabiano Ayala da Costa (9-2). ?Tsunami? Gomez loses 100% record of wins by KO/TKO as Ayala da Costa thrown out in the third round for various infractions of the rules. Gomez on his way to No 22 after forcing the 37-year-old Brazilian to take a standing count in second. A reflection on the standard of the opposition is that despite his 22 wins Gomez is not rated in the Argentinian top ten at his weight.
Merida, Mexico: Light Welter: Silverio Ortiz (23-13) W KO 2 Efren Hinojosa (30-9-1,1ND). Bantam: Jose Silveira (12-3) W PTS 12 Juan Jose Beltran (24-20-3). Super Feather: Jorge Perez (14-7-1) W PTS 12 Alejandro Mendez. ?Chamaco? retains his IBA title for the second time with a crushing win over experienced 39-year-old Hinojosa. After an even first round, a left from 28-year-old Ortiz sent Hinojosa to the canvas and may also have broken his jaw.
Hinojosa beat the count, but was flattened by another left hook and needed medical attention. Silveira looked on his way to an early night as he floored Beltran twice in the first round. Beltran survived and Silverio badly cut in the second and then boxed his way to a unanimous decision to win the vacant IBA title. Scores 118-108 twice and 115-111. In bouts in Canada Silveira lost to Martin Lindsay and beat Andrew Singh Kooner. Perez floors Mendez in second and ninth and overcomes a cut on his right eyelid, to outscore Mendez and win the vacant IBA title.
February 20:
Beryozovo, Russia: Light Welter: Ruslan Provodnikov (18-1) W TKO 3 Vyacheslav Yakovenko (7-14-1). Russian hope Provodnikov, 27, gets back into winning ways as he floors Yakovenko twice and halts him in three. In his last fight in January, Provodnikov lost his unbeaten tag as he was outpointed by Mauricio Herrera.
