It wasn’t pretty but WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. (31-1, 18 KOs) did enough to defeat 2012 Olympic silver medalist Tugstsogt Nyambayar (11-1, 9 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night on Showtime Boxing at the PPL Center, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Heavyweight contenders Dillian ‘The Body Snatcher’ Whyte (27-1, 18 KOs) and Alexander Povetkin (35-2-1, 24 KOs) are still in negotiations for a fight in April or May on DAZN.
Jaime Munguia (35-0, 28 KOs) had his coming out party on Saturday night in defeating a very tough Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan (30-4, 21 KOs) by an 11th round TKO in an exciting WAR at The Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
British promoter Eddie Hearn wants to use the services of WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo to help turn his Matchroom fighter WBO champion Demetrius Andrade into a bigger name.
Anthony Joshua thinks that lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (29-0-1, 20 KOs) can possibly beat WBC champ Deontay Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs) in their rematch on February 22 IF he sticks to the game plan for 12 rounds.
Trainer Manny Robles says he hasn’t heard from Andy Ruiz Jr. since just after his loss to Anthony Joshua on December 7, and he’s hoping that he’ll get in the gym and start training.
Former WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez beat Adam Lopez (13-2, 6 KOs) by a 7th premature stoppage in the main event, whereas Carl Frampton defeated Tyler McCreary (16-1-1, 7 KOs) by a 10 round unanimous decision in the co-feature on Saturday night at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
WBO bantamweight champion Zolani Tete (28-4, 21 KOs) was powerless to fend off the devastating attack from the Filipino hurricane John Riel Casimero (29-4, 20 KOs), who made quick work of him knocking him down 3 times in the process of scoring a 3rd round knockout on Saturday night in front of a crowd of shocked boxing fans at the Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, England.
It took Deontay Wilder until round seven to get his offense cranked up, but once he got it started, he smashed Luis Ortiz in knocking him out with a perfectly thrown right hand.
Luis ‘King Kong’ Ortiz came in at 236.5 lbs and looked in best shape in years for his title challenge against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.