By “Big” Nate Anderson: Undefeated super middleweight Dimitri Sartison (22-0, 14 KOs) stopped Argentinian Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas (19-3-1, 13 KOs) in the 8th round on Saturday night at the Brandberge Arena, Halle an der Saale, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Referee Manfred Kuechler halted the fight at 1:46 of the 8th round shortly after Nievas had been staggered by a right hand from Sartison. Nievas, however, looked to be okay at the time of the stoppage, but the referee had perhaps seen enough as Nievas had been hurt by big shots in the previous round but had somehow stayed up right taking abuse.
In the first round, Sartison, 28, originally from Rudny, Kazakstan and now living in Hamburg, Germany, threw mostly jabs. Nievas applied a lot of pressure, throwing punches to the body and head and clearly out-working Sartison. It was a close round and difficult to score but due to Nievas throwing the harder shots, I gave the round to him.
Sartison was busier in the 2nd round, throwing hooks to the body and excellent left-right combinations. His shots weren’t what I would call particularly powerful, but were hard enough to keep Nievas on the outside where he was less effective with his own shots.
By Tim Williams: In what was supposed to have been an easy set up fight for a potential shot at WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, undefeated Irish middleweight John Duddy (24-0, 17 KOs) won an ugly 10-round majority decision over Tunisian Walid Smichet (17-4-3, 13 KOs) on Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The final judges’ scores were 95-95, 98-92 and 98-92. However, if it weren’t for Smichet tiring out after the 3rd round, Duddy would have very likely have been stopped either on cuts or knocked out. 
By Eric Schmidt: IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs) won a listless safety first 12-round unanimous decision over WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov (22-1-1, 17 KOs) tonight at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The bout was important in that Klitschko, 31, unified one of the titles, the WBO, which he took from Ibragimov in getting the victory. Rarely did Klitschko attempt a right hand, mostly using his jab to keep the much smaller Ibragimov on the outside. Though he tried to make a fight of it, Ibragimov was simply too short, too weak and too slow to do much with Wladimir. 
By Jim Dower: Light middleweight contender Zaurbek Baysangurov (17-0m 12 KOs) had a much harder than expected victory tonight over Romanian Gheorghe Danut (7-9-5), beating him by tough 10-round unanimous decision to win the vacant EBU (European) light middleweight title at the Sport Palace, in Kiev, Ukraine. The final judges’ scores were 114-113, 114-113 and 115-113, all for Baysangurov. However, I had the 22 year-old Baysangurov winning every round of the fight except for the first, as he landed the cleaner and harder blows throughout the fight, and none of the rounds were particularly close. Danut, however, made it tough by continuously coming at Baysangurov, countering him and landing shots to the body. 
By Jim Dower: Undefeated light heavyweight Vyacheslav Uzelkov (18-0, 11 KOs) made easy work of Julio Cesar Dominguez (18-4-1, 12 KOs), stopping him in the 3rd round tonight at the Sport Palace, in Kiev, Ukraine to defend his
By David Lahr: World Boxing Council super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez (42-4, 31 KOs) will defend his title in the rubber match between him and challenger Rafael Marquez (37-4, 33 KOs) on March 1st at the Home Depot Center, in Carson, California. This is a bout that reminiscent of the ancient gladiators as both fighters have laid their heart out in two previous fights, trading shot for shot and taking turns hurting each other with scorching shots to the head.