By Jim Dower: Former IBF junior middleweight champion Ishe Smith (26-6, 12 KO’s) stopped replacement opponent Ryan Davis (24-14-3, 9 KO’s) in the 2nd round tonight at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Smith dropped Davis in the 2nd round. At that point the referee halted the fight at 2:59 of the round.

It wasn’t a competitive fight, because Davis didn’t have the game to give Smith any real competition. That wasn’t all that surprising given that he’s a journeyman and was just called in with a couple weeks notice to take the fight against Smith.

Smith was previously scheduled to be fighting WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara, but he pulled out of the fight when an opportunity to fight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez came up. Smith would have had problems had he been facing Lara tonight instead of the journeyman Ryan Davis.

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#7 WBA lightweight contender Mickey Bey (20-1-1, 10 KO’s) defeated Alan Herrera (32-6, 21 KO’s) by a 10 round unanimous decision. The judges scores were 97-92, 98-92, 99-92. Bey was knocked down in the 7th round. However, he was able to box his way to a decision by staying out of the way of Herrera’s big shots in the remaining three rounds of the fight.

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WBA interim featherweight champion Jesus Cuellar (24-1, 18 KO’s) defeated Rico Ramos (23-4, 12 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision. The final judges scores were 116-110, 117-109, 114-112.

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Bantamweight Rau’shee Warren (11-0, 3 KO’s) defeated Martin Alvarado (7-3, 6 KO’s) by a 10 round unanimous decision. The judges scores were 99-87, 99-87, 99-87.

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Raynell Williams (4-0, 3 KO’s) defeated Joshua Arocho (3-9-4, 2 KO’s) by a 4 round unanimous decision. The judges scored it 40-36, 40-36, 40-36.