The Brit has been carrying out a number of promotional duties for his new book and Christmas single with Robbie Williams, while he’s also been making appearances in the WWE. Pedro Guevara’s 108lbs career is tough to appraise. Not only did he perform well, but Inoue also got in some quality rounds in which he was able to get more and more comfortable inside that ring. The other champions at these weights are officially on notice, if they hadn’t been already. It was disappointing to see Prograis miss weight by 1.5 pounds, which he blamed on the yearlong layoff. England’s Savannah Marshall slowly and deliberately dissected Scotland’s Hannah Rankin to win the vacant WBO middleweight world title by stoppage on Saturday. "I am proud to have a designation for those who are really the driving forces of boxing," Sulaiman said. It proved successful for most of the fight. “I definitely want to unify this division. Certainly Estrada would rocket to the top of the sport behind his superb effort against Roman, who he stretched to his seeming limit in taking a decision. But Timlin, who was the large betting favorite, convinced one of the judges she was successful enough to win the fight and received a draw from another. Kenshiro Teraji boxes under the best moniker of any active fighter so far as I am concerned – “The Amazing Boy” comes from a fighting lineage and the temptation is to say that it shows. The unbeaten boxing legend last stepped into the ring on the final day of last year after being offered $9million for a nine-minute contest against Japanese kick-boxer Tenshin Nasukawa. I have the WBO belt now, so let’s make that fight happen. Mikey Williams/Top Rank Steve Kim: Saturday night's performance was a … But the rising Mexican star wins fights, and he does so in a fan-friendly style that should only help build him a larger and larger fan base for years to come. So, Guevara has good wins against good opponents but being workmanlike he perhaps did not inspire. Garcia and Davis have traded insults via social media for months, and assuming that Garcia beats Luke Campbell in December, it's a fight that will sell. In between his fights with Ganigan (key in charting his rise and rise), Teraji was not idle. For the first three rounds Rankin was able to fend off attacks with head movement and sharp counters. WBA-IBF champ Taylor demolishes Khongsong. The WBA has "super" versions of its belt, one of which is held by Davis (23-0, 22 KOs) heading into his fight against Santa Cruz (37-1, 19 KOs). Naoya Inoue is one of the world's best pound-for-pound fighters, and on Saturday in Las Vegas, he'll make his promotional debut with Top Rank inside the bubble at the MGM Grand conference center. Mikey Williams/Top Rank News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. He moved across Ganigan, opening himself up to the Mexican’s jab, allowing his opponent to bag the first round with his right alone. His first big win came over Mario Rodriguez, a fine fighter but one who was unranked at light-flyweight but was ranked, rather at strawweight. Chief among the reasons for this was his brutal 2011 breakdown of Gilberto Keb Baas, the unlikely world’s #1 at that time. Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News. “You have got to know when to hang it up. Alvarez beat Sergey Kovalev in Las Vegas last year to take home the WBO light-heavyweight title. “Her holding and her movement was a little tricky for me to catch on to. None of Calderon’s punches were beyond him through the first four rounds while he consistently and forcefully laid down his own work. Teraji was involved in a desperate, knife-edge scrap which he won by the narrowest of margins on the scorecards. She did have success in the fourth and fifth rounds when she was able to use her footwork and combinations at long range. That allowed Mayer to unleash her typical combinations assaults on the Polish fighter who had held the WBO world title for five defenses since winning it in April 2018. It was an absurdly busy weekend in boxing, so let’s get right to all the action. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Boxing is one of the best sports in the world, but as the television networks and streaming platforms continue to proliferate faster than the alphabet gang can come up with names of titles, there might be a point where boxing is just punching itself in the face. Meanwhile, SunSport has also had their say on the P4P rankings - with Crawford and Alvarez coming in at No1 and No2 respectively. Boxing debate: Who's next for Tyson Fury, if not Deontay Wilder? The undercards of both fight nights also had world title fights, as well as former title contenders putting on strong performances throughout. In a nutshell, his epic performance shows two very important things about “Tank”. Skelly, a southpaw, charged in under the blows of Timlin and quickly found a home for repeated left hands. In the three remaining fights for him that decade, he shut out the underqualified, granite-jawed Saul Juarez and outright slaughtered Jonathan Taconing and Randy Petalcorin, neither of whom belonged in a ring with him, in four. Will Lopez beat Lomachenko? Lopez, who won via unanimous decision, was billed as the undisputed champion because the WBC's franchise belt was at stake. "Ain't no such thing as super champion," Mayweather said. 3. Steve Kim: Saturday night's performance was a solid outing against a legitimate contender in Moloney. Facing a tall opponent such as Robert Helenius would also be good preparation for Fury and Wilder. Those tasks are typically left up to the state athletic commissions and organizations such as the WBC. The referee gave her a count and then waved the fight over at 1:59 of the seventh round. Forced into overt aggression by a quick, teasing Nietes he was walked onto persistent counters until one hurt him at which point an undisciplined Nietes – docked a point for landing against a downed opponent at the first knockdown – scored a sensational knockout win, half moving across himself as though to throw a left before booming out a disguised right. This inevitably led to an underwhelming legacy at the poundage but I feel the unblemished record is good enough for the number five spot. Can Kell Brook upset Terence Crawford? In an echo of his match with Gonzalez, Yaegashi moved, rather well, before parking and foraging for punches. Tyson Fury takes the third spot in our list, followed by Naoya Inoue, Vasyl Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk. FLOYD MAYWEATHER has named Terence Crawford as the best pound-for-pound star in the world - while reserving special praise for Canelo Alvarez. Marshall increased the tempo in the fourth round and began circling to the right and left while punching and creating angles for Rankin’s counters. Quite where Yaegashi produced the performance that followed is anyone’s guess. Mendoza, who had expected this, followed, and in the second and third did really good work but it is interesting to note that Yaegashi pulls out both rounds with straight right hands to the head, right hands that hurt Mendoza, and later in the fight begin to wither his desperate offence. Two good wins, and throwing in a victory over a green Ganigan Lopez, rounds out a very decent decadal resume. What lies ahead for Gervonta Davis and Naoya Inoue after highlight-reel KOs? The top three are split by a hair’s breadth. Usyk, 33, from Ukraine, hopes to follow in the footsteps of Evander Holyfield, the first undisputed cruiserweight champion in history and the only one to accomplish the same thing as a heavyweight. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Download the talkSPORT app NOW – the best way to listen live, beat Nonito Donaire by unanimous decision. Down went Moloney who beat the count. A third saw it 95-95 thus making it a split draw. Check out more boxing news on video at the Boxing Channel, To comment on this story in the Fight Forum CLICK HERE, Savannah Marshall Captures a World Title on the Usyk-Chisora Card, Gervonta Davis Disposes of Leo Santa Cruz With a Brutal One-Punch Knockout, HITS and MISSES: Halloween Weekend Edition. There is a case, then, for Melindo to sit above Taguchi, but in the end, I prefer Taguchi’s direct head-to-head superiority over the triangular logic of Melindo beat Budler, Budler beat Taguchi. “—C’mon!” (from the pen of Springs Toledo), RIP Ricardo Jimenez: One of Boxing’s Most Beloved, The Official TSS Lomachenko-Lopez Prediction Page, A Fistful of Murder: The Fights and Crimes of Carlos Monzon, Will The Pandemic Hurt Boxing in the Long Term? Floyd Mayweather, Davis' promoter, says he plans for Davis to fight two or three times in 2021, and at least one of those fights should be against another of the young lions quartet at lightweight (Teofimo Lopez Jr., Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney). Second, Davis is already drawing tons of attention, and it’s the right kind of attention, the kind that shows what an amazing fighter he is and how he really might be the next Floyd Mayweather. Taguchi’s longevity at the poundage tips the scale further. Less than a year later, he met divisional number one Adrian Hernandez and I would suggest this was the fight in which he summited. Munguia, 24, from Mexico, is still a work in progress. It started on Friday night when ex-154-pound titleholder and new middleweight contender Jaime Munguia stopped a very game Tureano Johnson in the sixth round of a DAZN card at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. And I grabbed it with both hands.”. However, ESPN recognizes Devin Haney as the WBC's top 135-pounder. Given that his last bout with Nonito Donaire was a rather harrowing experience and given the injuries Inoue suffered, along with the protracted layoff, things could not have not gone better for the Japanese star. It seemed clear that Skelly dominated the last round. Taguchi’s iron jaw and technical excellence had yet to be fully recognised and realised but in truth, he was well on his way and that meant Naoya had marched straight into one of the best 108lb men of his generation. Although he never seemed entirely safe, his reliance upon his jab to out-basic Guevera led the way to a gorgeous beltline attack in the seventh and bagged enough rounds on my card to rescue him from what looked like a bad start. Theirs was a stiff contest, clearly won by Naoya but far from one-sided. Here was a learning fight and one that bore immediate fruit in the form of that knockout of Lopez. The key was finding a home for his right hand, which he achieved by moving slightly to his left with Melindo moving slightly on his right. At this weight, those two generational wins are more than enough for a top five placement. Cameron Wolfe: Next up is to enjoy the elevator ride up to boxing stardom -- and maybe more -- because that KO against a somehow underrated four-division champion earned him a new group of fans. “He’s having a well-earned bit of rest now, “I’m going over there because if I can see one thing, and pick up just one thing that I didn’t see and haven’t seen while watching hours upon hours upon hours of him, then it’s worth it.”. Hernandez, for all his guile, was rent. He has three key wins that need to be examined and each is marked by a question of one kind or another. You have reached ESPN's Australian edition. Emerging from the 105lb division, Nietes nevertheless continued to stalk his 108lb opposition and his sharpshooting and poise spooked Hirales early. Content creators see 168 hours in each week and aim to fill every bit of it. Maybe that’s just the way things are going. The middle of these three victories locks him onto this list though, and ahead of Akira Yaegashi, for in December of 2014, Guevara defeated him in his Japanese stronghold.

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