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EPISODE: Episode 11
Results from the weekend bouts, including via New York the Joe Smith Jr fight, and Abraham Nova who defeated William Encarnacion, and upcoming news from Scotland, MTK Global, Probellum, the World Cup Boxing Series and Leigh Wood from Nottingham, UK, who goes up against Michael Conlan soon, all hit the headlines today.
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[ Music ] hello, boxing fans around the world thanks for joining me once again on talk and fight for another episode of boxing news today, where we go through the headlines, courtesy of our friends over at boxing247.
com.
Let’S start off with a couple of results from the weekend, joe smith jr, defeating stephen gifford, who stepped in at the last minute and joe smith jr retains her for his wbo light heavyweight title and for those who might have been watching on the weekend.
I believe that was the knockout of the week as well uh anyway, that’s a quick read of the story here out of turning stone, resort and casino in verona, new york, the steve geffford story was something out of a hollywood script.
The south florida native accepted a shot at that title on eight days notice, but he didn’t offer the shocking upset.
Wbo light heavyweight world champion.
Joe smith jr made the first successful defense of his crown, knocking out gefford in the ninth round saturday, at turning stone resort casino smith.
Who’S 28-3 with 22 knockouts was never threatened as his activity 665 punches thrown forrest geffford who’s 18-3-12 knockouts on the back foot gupford had minor pockets of success in the opening round, but it soon turned into a one-sided exhibition for the long island native he stunned gupford.
With right hands in the fifth and turned up the heat in the ninth, when uh, with geffford pinned against his corner, steve smith, unloaded with a combination and gafford went to a knee before mark nielsen could finish.
The 10 10 count trainer kevin cunningham, threw in the towel to end the one-way traffic on the undercard by the way, junior welterweight puerto rican prospecto mayor rosario, six of those two knockouts learned another lesson in his young career as he nearly finished off: brooklyn’s rayquan butler Who’S formed two two knockouts in the opening round before being forced to six round distance and winning a unanimous decision.
59-54.
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weltsweight jahi tucker who’s 6-0, with four knockouts, is fighting beyond his years.
The eighteen-year-old knocked down, nakeem black, with six and five or two knockouts, with an uppercut in the opening round and then finish things off with a flurry in the second tucker became the only second man to knock out black and landed 47 out of 98 punches thrown Middleweight u.
s olympian, troy transformer.
Obviously he was 4-0 now with two knockouts through everything, including the kitchen sink, but harry keane and cruz cubano who’s.
Six and three were two knockouts which did a hellacious beating to survive the six round distance isley tagged cruz cabana with uppercuts.
In the early round and cruised to a decision by scores of 5953 and 59.
54, two times cruiserweight, the bomier pinchov who’s 14-2-1, with eight knockouts lumbered to an eight-round unanimous decision over jose monreal flores who’s, eight and three and two with four knockouts by scores of eight.
Seventy two: seventy nine seventy three two times there you go the results from that particular card elsewhere.
We also saw abraham nova against uh, william and encarnacion.
Here’S a result: undefeated featherweight, abraham l supernova, walked to the ring with a mascot and cheerleaders, but he soon found himself in a fight short notice, opponent, william elgago and conor mcion nova with a chopping rate in the first round, but nova 21-0 50 knockouts.
By the way settled in and prevailed by eight round tko nova was world ranked at junior lightweight before moving down to featherweight.
Last year he survived the early rough patch and plastered incarceration.
It was 1902 by the way 15 knockouts with body shots and carcions corner, saw enough and threw in a towel much to the shock of those in attendance elsewhere across the pond, stuart burton’s, going up against corey mcculloch in trump turnberry in scotland, on the feb on February 19th.
2022.
: there are less than five weeks to go until kainak boxing event that features the headlining about stuart, bert versus cory.
Mcculloch for the scottish welterweight title finally happens.
This is a fight which is generating a lot of interest and also dividing opinion in scottish boxing circles.
Burt is the more seasoned campaigner, while mcculloch will be having his first title fight with a fair short of boxing careers mcculloch the fresher man, and will this tell over 10 rounds or will bert’s experience, be the decisive factor over the championship? Distance fight fans will find out on saturday, as i said february 19th at the undercard at the trump turnbree features: aaron mcgarvey, darren, johnson, alec, o’donnell and hayden hill elsewhere.
We see that jack catterall assigned a new management deal.
Mtk global mtk global is thrilled to announce a new management deal with undefeated super lightweight star jack catterall cadderall who’s 26-0, with 13 knockouts returns to action next month when he faces josh taylor, who’s also, 18-0 undefeated with 13 knockouts for the wbc wba idf and wbo Super lightweight titles: in all british undisputed showdown at the ssc hydro in glasgow, live on sky sports ahead of the boat.
The trolley fighters extended his deal with mtk global committing his future to the company after successful period.
So far, capital said i’m delighted to re-sign with mtk global they’ve, always provided a great service and have got me into position to fight for the undisputed super lightweight titles.
Congratulations to jack elsewhere.
We see that ukrainian heavyweight sony ragava has signed for pro bellum.
Pro bellum is delighted to announce that promotional signing of the ukrainian fighter apologies for mispronouncing his first name, the 28 year old heavyweight made his professional debut in april 2021, when he secured a knockout victory over peter mcvology.
Previously ragava enjoyed an impressive amateur career before going on to compete professionally as a mutai kickboxer, where he became the 2018 acb kb heavyweight champion.
This is a big moment in my career and i’m delighted to sign for pro-bellum, said ragava.
After making the transition from mutai kickboxing to professional boxing, i’m very excited about where the future holds, and i firmly believe that, under the guise of pro-bellum, i can go on to achieve a lot of success.
Let’S wait see elsewhere, as i’ve reported earlier, the world cup boxing series, that’s at wcbs plans have been finalized.
The wbc is this action, the event it’s a four-man lightweight tournament it’ll take place in the spring of 2012 at the palenque de la expo in cuidad abrigan sonora mexico.
On the 24th of february, wcbs has finalized plans for its inaugural four-man, lightweight tournament, presented by roy jones jr, boxing promotions with the semifinals on february 24th in sonora mexico, at its 59th annual world boxing council convention in mexico city this past november.
The wbc committee approved to sanction the wcbs four-man lightweight tournament, created by ceo, terry holland and matchmaker guy taylor.
We are extremely grateful for the wbc uh to support our upcoming four-man lightweight tournament.
Taylor said the semi-finals will be held february 24th.
The championships uh june 2nd the world boxing council, will crown the winner of the format tournament at its new wbc latino lightweight champion the wc, the wbc, if their part hopes to be able to sanction more world cup boxing series tournaments and create great regional champions to Enter our world rankings and achieve their goals for the wbc alberto guerrero of the db of the wbc commented finally uh.
Today’S episode, lee leewood out of nottingham and going up against michael conlan and tickets, are going on sale this week, so we should see uh how those two fighters and their promoters affair.
That’S a matchroom event and i can see that the uh vip ticket is 300 pounds of pop, whereas if you’re sitting up in the uh upper atmosphere, it’s 40 pounds all right.
This is taking place at the motor point arena in nottingham on the 12th of march, and lee leewood will make his first defense of his wba featherweight world title against irish star michael conlon at the motorsport motor point.
Arena nottingham, as i said, march 12th, live on, the zone and tickets are now going on sale.
Wood is 25 and 2 15 knockouts stopped china’s shukan in the 12th and final round to claim the wba world title and a huge upset at the top of the bill in the first week of the match and fight camp in brentwood essex.
Last july, lee thai created history by becoming only the second ever boxer from nottingham to become a world champion.
Following in the footsteps of former ibf super middleweight, carl frook, who was watching on from ringside belfast colin ferris part of 16-0, with eight knockouts earned the interim wba featherweight crown by defeating former world champion tj dorney on points over 12 rounds in an all-irish clash.
As part of the phaley onpoorboy festival at falls park last august, one of ireland’s most successful ever amateurs 30 year old conlon, has been remained undefeated since joining the pro ranks in march 2017, following his controversial exit from the rio 2016 olympic games, picking up the wba And wbo intercontinental titles along the way said wood.
I visualized getting him out there.
Mick is a good fighter, but i’ll be too much for him when things aren’t going right.
I’Ve got to quit in me and i’m ex what oh i haven’t got to quit in me and i’m extremely confident getting the win and looking good doing it.
I’M a lot bigger and more seasoned fighter, i’d like to show a lot of grit and resilience.
I’Ve taken a hard route to get around today.
I don’t want to get to this level and then climb back up again, no kidding all right sports fans, that’s it for today.
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