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By Jim Dower: Unbeaten light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne (21-0, 16 KOs) made easy work of super middleweight Francy Ntetu (17-2, 4 KOs) in stopping him in the 1st round knockout on Saturday night in a scheduled 10 round fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
By Shane Newsome: Welcome readers to my weekly column which takes an informative, un-bias, retrospective look back on just what went on at the weekend, with reports on the biggest and best boxing action from across the globe.
This week we saw the good, bad and ugly sides of boxing. Including the rise of a new star in Lucas Matthysse, the re-emergence of some old ones in Shane Mosley and Guillermo Jones and perhaps the beginning of an end for some present ones in Lamont Peterson and Denis Lebedev.
So as usual we start our look back in the same place we begun our preview, on Friday at Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russia and the WBA ‘Regular’ World heavyweight title defense for unbeaten Russian Alexander Povetkin (26-0) against challenger and previously unbeaten Pole Andrzej Wawrzyk (27-1).
By Eric Thomas; Former lightweight contender Anthony Peterson (30-1, 20 KO’s) will finally be returning to the ring on December 10th on the undercard of the championship bout between IBF/WBA light welterweight title holder Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson at the Convention Center in Washinton, DC. Anthony still doesn’t have an opponent picked out yet, but it probably won’t be someone too good because he’s coming off a loss.
By Ryan Dunn: Last night’s Boxing After Dark on HBO was nothing if not unusual. Two betting favorites stepped into the ring and ultimately showed more weaknesses than strengths, throwing yet more controversy into the lower weights and the quest for dominance. The fights themselves were plagued with ebbing tides, peculiar fouls and equal turns of heroism and disappointment.
by Matt Stein: World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (19-0, 15 KO’s) struggled to some extent in beating Mexican Orlando Salido (34-11-2, 22 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Palms Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The final judges’ scores were 116-109, 114-109 and 115-109. Gamboa dominated pretty much the entire fight, and had Salido down twice on the canvas with a flurry of big shots in the 12th round.
By Jim Dower: WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (18-0, 15 KO’s) will be facing his best opponent thus far when he takes on WBC featherweight champion Elio Rojas (22-1, 13 KO’s) in a title unification bout on September 11th in a still to be determined location.
By Jim Dower: Former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (34-3, 27 KO’s) defeated contender Nagy Aguilera (15-3, 10 KO’s) in a 2nd round TKO tonight in a IBF heavyweight eliminator match at the Gaylord Hotel, in Grapevine, Texas. Peter, came into the fight at 237, his lowest weight for him since 2001, knocked Aguilera down with a crushing right hand in the 2nd round.