Top Rank Card Features Quality Mid-Level Bouts on ESPN+
This Saturday night, Top Rank staged a card that is topped by two interesting mid-level bouts in Joet Gonzalez vs. Isaac Dogboe and Giovanni Cabrera vs.
This Saturday night, Top Rank staged a card that is topped by two interesting mid-level bouts in Joet Gonzalez vs. Isaac Dogboe and Giovanni Cabrera vs.
The pound-for-pound king notched his career-defining victory. Terence “Bud” Crawford knocked out “Showtime” Shawn Porter in the 10th round to retain his WBO welterweight world title in front of a sold-out crowd of 11,568 at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) stayed unbeaten on Saturday night with a 10th round knockout win over Shawn Porter (31-4-1, 17 KOs) at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
Unbeaten IBF/WBA bantamweight champion Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue (21-0, 18 KOs) made it look easy in destroying a badly overmatched #1 IBF challenger Michael Dasmarinas (30-3-1, 20 KOs) in the third round on Saturday night at the Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
IBF/WBA bantamweight champion Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue (20-0, 17 KOs) came in at the limit at 118 lbs for his title defense against #1 IBF Michael Dasmarinas (30-2-1, 20 KOs) on Friday at their weigh-in for Saturday’s headliner on ESPN at the Virgil Hotels Las Vegas.
Oscar Valdez sealed his victory with a 10th round knockout win over Jayson Velez, and Isaac Dogboe and Edgar Berlanga also won on the undercard on Tuesday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Oops, he did it again. Super middleweight destroyer Edgar Berlanga (14-0, 14 KOs) scored his 14th consecutive first-round knockout, obliterating the usually durable Eric Moon (11-3, 6 KOs) in 62 seconds.
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It was pure savagery in the desert. Miguel Berchelt defended his WBC super featherweight world title over Francisco Vargas after Vargas retired on his stool following the sixth round of a brawl in front of 4,424 fans at Tucson Arena.
WBO super bantamweight champion Emanuel Navarrete (27-1, 23 KOs) beat Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (20-2, 14 KOs) by a 12th round stoppage in their rematch at the Tucson Arena in Tucson, Arizona.