By Scott Gilfoid: A year out from winning a very controversial 12 unanimous decision last year in Monte Carlo, WBA World bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (29-2-1, 13 KOs) will be back inside the ring defending his title against #3 WBA Liborio Solis (25-5-1, 11 KO) in a rematch on Saturday at the Casino de Monte Carlo Salle Medecin, in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
By Scott Gilfoid: After sitting out of the ring for the last 10 months, WBA World bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (29-2-1, 13 KOs) will be defending his title in a rematch against #3 WBA Liborio Solis (25-5-1, 11 Kos) on November 4 on the Dmitry Bivol vs. Trent Broadhurst card at the Salle des Etoiles, in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
By Scott Gilfoid: Three months after WNA bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (29-2-1, 13 KOs) beat the talented Liborio Solis (25-5-1, 11 KOs) by a very controversial 12 round unanimous decision last November, the World Boxing Association has reportedly ordered a rematch between them, according to Fight News.
The negotiation period officially started yesterday on January 31, and they have one month to negotiate the fight before it goes to a purse bid.
By Scott Gilfoid: Liborio Solis (25-5-1, 11 KOs) has filed a protest to the World Boxing Association about his controversial 12 round unanimous decision loss to WBA World bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (29-2-1, 13 KOs) from earlier this month on November 12 at the Salle des Etoilles in Monte Carlo.
McDonnell appeared to lose the fight in the eyes of a lot of the fans, but the three judges working the fight gave it to McDonnell as follows: 116-112, 115-113 and 117-111. However, even the WBA orders a rematch between McDonnell and Solis, it doesn’t mean the fight will take place.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBA World bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (29-2-1, 13 KOs) retained his 118lb title with a highly controversial 12 round unanimous decision win over #2 WBA challenger Liborio Solis (25-5-1, 11 KOs) on Saturday night at the Salle des Étoiles, in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The judges scored the fight 116-112, 115-113 and 117-111 for McDonnell. Boxing News 24 scored the fight 9 rounds to 3 for Solis.
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten highly rated #1 WBA heavyweight contender Luis “King Kong” Ortiz weighed in at 239.5 pounds during Friday’s weigh-in for his fight against the serviceable Malik Scott for Saturday’s fight on HBO World Boxing in Monte Carlo.
Malik (38-2-1, 13 KOs) weighed in at a heavy looking 246.4lbs. What was interesting about the two straightaway was that the 6’4” Malik appeared to be at least one inch taller than Ortiz, and clearly the heavier looking of the two. This suggests that the listed 6’4” height that Ortiz has isn’t legit. He looks no more than 6’3”. That’s not an issue for this fight, of course, because Malik is obviously not in the same class as Ortiz in terms of talent, boxing skills, power and experience, but it might be a problem in the future for the Cuban when he starts facing the giants in the heavyweight division.
By Scott Gilfoid: A year after having his WBA ‘super’ bantamweight title taken from him by the World Boxing Association for failing to defend it on a frequent enough basis, the talented super bantamweight Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) has been given his title back.
The WBA decided to give it back to Rigondeaux after they stripped it from Carl Frampton, who won the belt last February in beating Scott Quigg in their unification fight. Frampton was subsequently ordered by the WBA to fight Rigondeaux, but he failed to step up to the plate for that fight, so the WBA had to take the strap from him.
(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Gilfoid: With his second consecutive controversial win over Tomoki Kameda (31-2, 19 KOs) taking place last Sunday, WBA “regular” bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (27-2-1, 12 KOs) is finding out that many fans saw the wrong guy get his hand raised in victory at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
Instead of acknowledging the boxing fans as being the true judges of who won the fight instead of the three guys that were assigned to the fight, McDonnell is lashing back at the fans, saying it’s “stupid” for them to see the 24-year-old Kameda as having won the fight, because he believes he didn’t win.
(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Gilfoid: #4 WBA Tomoki “El Mexicanito” Kameda (31-2, 19 KOs) is very unhappy with the scoring of his fight yesterday in losing a controversial 12 round unanimous decision to WBA World super bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (27-2, 12 KOs) in their rematch at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. The three judges – Glenn Feldman, Jesse Reyes and Steve Weisfeld – gave the 29-year-old McDonnell the win by the scores of 115-112, 116-111 and 117-111.
The Premier Boxing Champions analysts saw Kameda as the winner despite the fact that he was knocked down in the 12th round, when he slipped on the canvas as he was getting hit. It was a very questionable knockdown, because Kameda clearly slipped when he was getting hit.
(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Scott Bells: Anthony Dirrell (28-1-1, 22 KOs) bounced back from his loss to Badou Jack with an easy win against long faded former world title challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (59-8-1, 51 KOs) on Sunday afternoon in a fight televised by Premier Boxing Champions on CBS at the American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
Dirrell showed fast hands, but it really is worrying that he couldn’t put Rubio away – his lack of power really is worrying. Rubio was moving up in weight after being dominated by Gennday Golovkin so this fight was truly exceptional matchmaking from Dirrell’s promoters to make him look good.