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By Nate Anderson: Undefeated light welterweight prospect Michael Grant (11-0-1, 1 KOs) won an impressive eight-round decision over journeyman Gary Reid (13-22-2, 8 KOs) on the undercard of David Haye vs. Monte Barrett heavyweight bout on Saturday night at the O2 Arena (Millenium Dome), Greenwich, in London. The referee’s score was 58-55 in favor of the 25 year-old Grant. The only real excitement in the fight, which was largely controlled by the bigger 5’7” Grant, was a knockdown by Reid in the 4th round when he tagged Grant with a leaping right hand to the head to put him down.

By Eric Thomas: Heavyweight David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) showed brief glimpses of good power against Monte Barrett on Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, knocking him down all total five times before the one-sided mismatch was stopped in the 5th round.

By Nate Anderson: Making his first defense of his Commonwealth (British Empire) super featherweight title, champion Ricky Burns (25-2, 6 KOs) took out challenger Yakubu Amidu (16-2-1, 16 KOs) in the 7th round of a scheduled 12-round bout on Friday night at the Kelvin Hall, in Glasgow, Scotland.

By Nate Anderson: undefeated super middleweight Kenny Anderson (9-0, 7 KOs) stopped journeyman Hastings Rasani (20-38-2, 16 KOs) in the 3rd round of a scheduled six-round bout tonight at Kelvin Hall, in Glasgow, Scotland.

Anderson, 25 from Scotland, struggled in the first two rounds, taking heavy shots in order to get his much lighter punches in on Rasani.

By Dan Ambrose: Light middleweight contender Cornelius Bundrage (28-4, 16 KOs) was defeated in a 10-round bout by a split decision by Grady Brewer (24-11, 13 KOs) at the Dunkin Donuts Center, in Providence, Rhode Island. The final judges’ scores were 93-92, 90-95 and 94-91.

The fight, however, was marred by point deductions made against both fighters for hitting on the break (Bundrage) and holding (Brewer). Bundrage, 35, was knocked down in the 3rd round after getting hit by a right hand from Brewer.

By Dan Ambrose: Exciting super middleweight power puncher Jaidon Codrington (19-2, 15 KOs) stopped journeyman William Gill (8-21, 7 KOs) with three seconds remaining in the 8th round on Thursday night at the Dunkin Donuts Center, in Providence, Rhode Island. Codrington, 24, a former star from reality television program The Contender, staggered Gill late in the 8th round with a monstrous left hand.

Codrington then followed up with a horde of combinations, driving Gill across the ring where he collapsed against the ropes causing referee Ricky Gonzalez to step in and halt the fight at 2:57 of the 8th.

By Manuel Perez: In a truly terrible decision, light welterweight contender Francisco Figueroa (20-2, 13 KOs) defeated journeyman Emanuel Augustus (38-30-6, 20 KOs) by a controversial eight-round split decision on Saturday night on the undercard of Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr. at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, New York.

The final judges’ scores were 77-75 and 77-75 for Figueroa, whereas Augustus received the nod by the third judge 77-75. I personally had Augustus winning by six rounds to two, as Figueroa did very little in the fight and was out-worked, out-punched in virtually every round save for two.

Ranked an incredible #4 in the IBF and WBC, Figueroa, 30, looked poor in the early going against Augustus, more like a good C-class fighter than anything close to a top tier fighter from what I could see of him.

By Aaron Klein: Unbeaten light middleweight prospect David Lemieux (12-0, 12 KOs) continued his perfect knockout streak with a 2nd round TKO over Patrick Tessier (3-8, 2 KOs) on Saturday night to win the vacant Quebec Boxing Council (CQB) light middleweight title at the Montreal Casino, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Lemieux, only 19, dropped Tessier four times in the fight, twice in the 1st round and another two times in the 2nd round. After the 4th knockdown, a devastating left-right combination, referee Marlon Wright stopped the fight at 2:50 of the 2nd round.

Lemieux, a Canadian, is still work in progress and probably a little undersized at only 5’9″ for the light middleweight division, yet his power is very much real. He hits as hard as any of the top light middleweights in the division, possibly even harder than James Kirkland or Alfredo Angulo, two of the hardest punchers in the light middleweight division. However, his defense is virtually nonexistent, making him susceptible to getting hit a lot. Indeed, Tessier, 29, had little trouble landing powerful right hands to the head of Lemieux in the short two rounds of the fight.

By Erik Schmidt: Undefeated light welterweight prospect Sergey Fedchenko (22-0, 10 KOs) destroyed Juan Alberto Godoy (22-12-1, 8 KOs) in a 4th round TKO on Saturday night at the Budivelnik, in Cherkasy, Ukraine. Fedchenko, 28, also known as “The Professor,” knocked Godoy down three times in the fight, twice in the 3rd and a final time in the 4th round. After the third knockdown, referee Yuri Koptsev stopped the one-sided bout. Fedchenko, a Ukrainian, jabbed Godoy frequently in the first round, and hammed him with power lefts and rights to the head. Fedchenko rarely threw combinations in the round and instead appeared to be loading up for quick, powerful shots that would often catch Godoy unaware.

For his part, Godoy found it difficult to land his own punches in the opening round, as when he would attempt to land a shot, Fedchenko would quickly move away to the outside leaving nothing but air in between the two fighters. In the second round, Fedchenko hurt Godoy with a hard left to the body in the early portion of the round, making Godoy grab to his side and wince in pain.