By Anthony Montero: A great night of fights at the Forum in Inglewood California that did not disappoint for those in attendance. The triple header started off with an interesting light heavyweight bout between the hard hitting ‘everyman’ Joe Smith Jr of New York and the well experienced tactician Sullivan Barrera of Miami. Most were expecting this to be a brawl filled with fireworks and knock downs, and the first round was just that.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC super featherweight champion Miguel “El Alacran” Berchelt (32-1, 28 KOs) won an easy 12 round unanimous decision victory over #1 WBC challenger and former WBC world champion Takashi Miura (31-4-2, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
By Dan Ambrose: Showing off his huge punching power, former WBC super featherweight champion Takashi Miura, (31-3-2, 24 KOs) blasted out #2 WBC Miguel “Mickey” Roman (56-12, 43 KOs) in a 12th round knockout on Friday night in a World Boxing Council 130lb eliminator bout at the Fantasy Springs Resort in Indio, California.
By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) will be facing former WBC super featherweight champion Takashi Miura (30-3-2, 23 KOs) on December 17 on HBO at The Forum in Inglewood, California. This is good news. It means there could be three excellent fights coming up with the Salido-Miura fight on December 17, Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Nicholas Walters fight on November 26, and potentially Gennady “GGG” Golovkin vs. Daniel Jacobs on December 10. Those are all fights on HBO Boxing. It’s great stuff.
Salido hasn’t won a fight in two years since his 11th round stoppage win over Terdsak Kokietgym in September 2014.
By Nate Estrada: Among the great boxers American audiences get to see on national networks, we have yet to see the arrival of several international boxers who deserve their American debut. Whether it’s on HBO, Showtime or the growing PBC, fans are still missing out on great fighters to watch.
Let alone the champions overseas who definitely deserve the spotlight. One boxer in particular is Japan’s very own WBA super featherweight champion, Takashi Uchiyama aka ‘KO Dynamite’ (24-0-1 20 KOs).
Uchiyama won the super featherweight title against Juan Carlos Salgado on January 11, 2010 with a TKO in the twelfth round. Ever since then, he has defended it 11 times. Most recently, he defended the belt against little known Oliver Flores and won with a vicious liver shot in the third round to get the TKO victory.
Las vegas (Oct. 20, 2015) – Already destined to be one of the best fight nights of 2015, a stellar televised undercard for the Saturday, Nov. 21 showdown between Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez will provide even more punch to an already highly anticipated event from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas which will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.