Rey Vargas vs. Azat Hovhannisyan – Results

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By Allan Fox: Rey Vargas (32-0, 22 KOs) retained his WBC super bantamweight title in beating the always tough Azat “Crazy A” Hovhannisyan (14-3, 11 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, New York.

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Sadam Ali vs. Jaime Munguia – Weigh-in results

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By Jim Dower: WBO junior middleweight champion Sadam ‘World Kid’ Ali (26-1, 14 KOs) weighed in at 153 pounds on Friday afternoon for his first defense of his WBO title against unbeaten #6 WBC Jaime Munguia (28-0, 24 KOs) in this Golden Boy promoted fight at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino, in Verona, New York.

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Rey Vargas vs. Oscar Negrete – Results

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By Jeff Aranow: The much taller 5’7 ½” WBC super flyweight champion Rey Vargas (31-0, 22 KOs) used his height and reach advantage to defeat voluntary challenger Oscar Negrete (17-1, 7 KOs) by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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Cotto ends career this Sat. against Sadam Ali

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto (41-5, 33 KOs) will supposedly be retiring after this Saturday’s fight against Sadam Ali (25-1, 14 KOs) on HBO Boxing at Madison Square Garden in New York. Saturday’s Cotto-Ali televised start time for the card on HBO is at 10:00 p.m. ET.

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Can Rey Vargas fill the void left by Marquez?

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By Gerardo Granados: This Saturday night on August 26 at the StubHub Center, Carson, California, the newly crowned WBC super-bantam belt holder Rey Vargas will make his first defense against Ronny Rios. Last February, Rey won his title against Gavin McDowell showing good skills and ring smarts to control the fight in which he even made remember Ricardo Finito Lopez.

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Rey Vargas vs. Gavin McDonnell – Results

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By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten #1 WBC Rey Vargas (29-0, 22 KOs) took #2 WBC Gavin McDonnell (16-1-2, 4 KOs) to school in beating him by a 12 round majority decision on Saturday night to win the vacant World Boxing Council super bantamweight title at the Ice Arena in Hull, UK. The judges scored the fight 114-114 117-111 and 116-112. Boxing News 24 scored the fight 12 rounds to 0 in favor of Vargas. He totally dominated the 30-year-old McDonnell.

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Rey Vargas vs Gavin McDonnell to fuel the Mexico vs UK rivalry

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By Gerardo Granados: This Saturday at the Ice Arena, Hull Yorkshire, two hungry fighters will fight for the vacant WBC super-bantamweight title in Gavin McDonnell, who has the support from the locals better show his hunger and determination to defeat a young lion Rey Vargas who will have legendary trainer Ignacio Beristain in his corner.

For Gavin this is the chance for him to join his brother Jamie McDonnell WBA bantam titlist as brother champions and also for the loud fervent UK fight fan base to add one more champion to their last years long list of champions which to me represent an UK Boxing Golden Era.

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