Jermain Taylor and Andre Dirrell made triumphant returns to the ring Friday, both winning by knockout during a special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation on SHOWTIME®.
Ward's arduous journey through the Super Six tournament included dominant victories over former champion Mikkel Kessler (TD11), Allan Green (UD12), Arthur Abraham (UD12) and Froch (UD12).
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WBA TITLE, WINS SUPER SIX CUP, RING MAGAZINE BELTS IN LOPSIDED VICTORY OVER THE “THE COBRA” CARL FROCH
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TORONTO, January 18th, 2012 – Score Media Inc. (TSX: SCR) today announces that The Score Fighting Series (SFS) will be returning to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for another night of incredible MMA action on Friday, March 16th at the Hamilton Place Theatre. A marquee match-up between John Alessio (33-14) and “Diamond” Ryan Healy (19-9-1) has been confirmed for the card.
Score Fighting Series veterans Rich Clementi, Josh Hill, Alex Ricci, Shane Campbell and Lyndon Whitlock are all slated to be in action. Opponents for all of them are awaiting approval by the Ontario Athletic Commission and will be announced shortly.
Alessio is a Vancouver native and trains out of Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. Nicknamed “The Natural”, he has competed in the WEC, UFC and PRIDE with 10 of his 33 career victories coming by KO and 15 via submission. He recently dropped to the lightweight division where he scored a win over Luiz Firmino in November.
Healy is a WEC veteran and a member of Team Quest where he trains with MMA legend Matt Lindland and UFC star Chael Sonnen. Like his twin brother and fellow scrapper Pat, Healy has a dominant ground game but prefers to use utilize his wrestling to keep the fight standing.
The match-up was originally supposed to take place in December but was postponed when Healy suffered an injury during training. Alessio has been vocal in praising his opponent and looks forward to fighting again in Canada. "Ryan is a tough guy with good boxing skills and he’s well conditioned with no quit,” says Alessio. “This is a great fight for me to showcase all my skills, I feel like I’m better everywhere and I’m coming to finish!"
Tickets, priced from $30, go on sale on Tuesday, January 24th at the Copps Coliseum box office and online at www.ticketmaster.ca.
Said Ramos: “He got me with a few head butts, but the blood didn’t really bother me.”
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 20, 2012) – In a night of knockdowns and stoppages on ShoBox: The New Generation, Guillermo Rigondeaux won a world title in only his ninth professional fight by knocking out the defending World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight champion Rico Ramos at 1:29 of the sixth round. The co-feature resulted in a multiple knockdown thriller live on SHOWTIME® before Joel Diaz Jr. ended the contest by scoring a TKO over Guy Robb at 2:20 of round seven. In the opening bout of the night, super flyweight Matthew Villanueva TKOed Mike Ruiz Jr. at 1:04 in the seventh round from Pearl Theatre at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nev.
In his first title defense, Ramos never found his rhythm.
“Rico Ramos is a very good fighter,” Rigondeaux said after his world championship-capturing fight. “But I train very hard and when I train, no one can beat me.”
The quick and slick Rigondeaux scored a knockdown in the first session and threw a slew of rapid-fire power shots to end the affair but Ramos pulled through the early adversity. From there, Rigondeaux methodically controlled the pace, although both fighters seemed a bit tentative and unwilling to engage from the second through the fifth rounds. In the sixth, Rigondeaux (9-0, 7 KOs) bothered Ramos by holding and hitting. Joe Cortez warned Rigondeaux as Ramos (20-1, 11 KOs) recovered but Rigondeaux smelled blood in the water. The Cuban burst from his corner and belted Ramos with power shots to the head and a solid left hook to the midsection that sent Ramos to the canvas for a count of ten.
“He hit me in the back of the head and I got dizzy,” said Ramos. “The referee told us to fight and I wanted to take my time. That’s when he caught me with the body shot and I fell. I’m going to bounce back harder. I’ll be up in that gym next week.”
Diaz Jr. (7-0, 6 KOs) and Robb (7-1, 3 KOs) produced a shootout with its share of knockdowns and blood in a fight that both young boxers took on short notice. From the opening bell, power punches flew – and landed. As Diaz Jr., of Los Angeles, began to come on strong in the second, Sacramento-based Robb dropped him with a big right hand. Diaz Jr. retaliated with two knockdowns of his own in the third round. Refusing to back down, the fight enjoyed several swings of momentum. The fighters loaded up on the majority of their shots with Diaz Jr. landing 148 power shots to Robb’s 120. In the seventh, Diaz Jr. rocked Robb and began a barrage of punches that caused referee Vic Drakulich to call the fight. “It was much harder than I thought,” said Diaz Jr. of the scheduled eight-round super featherweight attraction. “I was expecting it to be more like my previous fights, but not everybody’s the same. I can’t hit everybody with one punch and knock them down.”
Headlining the main event was a battle between native Hawaiian and Ultimate Fighter (TUF) season three winner Kendall Grove and Japanese underdog Ikuhisa Minowa, better known as "Minowaman," who was competing in the United States for the first time.
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Orange, CA (January 25) - With the New Year comes the return of Thompson Boxing Promotions "New Blood" as it re-emerges with the best prospects in the Inland Empire area including welterweight contender Artemio "King" Reyes who makes his way back to Ontario after a spectacular win on national television. The "King" along with a court of pugilists like Aron Martinez, Richard Contreras and Sindy Amador are ready to perform in 2012.
The exciting night will take place on Friday, February 24, at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario as Thompson Boxing returns with its first blockbuster fight card of the year.
Artemio Reyes (14-1, 11 KOs), from Colton, CA, returns to the squared circle after tumbling 2008 U.S. Olympian Javier Molina from the ranks of the undefeated with a unanimous decision in Atlantic City last October. The lanky welterweight, Reyes, will face Mexico City's Victor Hugo Correa (12-4, 8 KOs) on his way to retaining the WBC Latino title and sliding toward the upper tier of the division. It's a hurdle that Reyes needs to jump before meeting the top contenders in the world.
Correa is coming off a four-fight winning streak and is hungry for a victory to once again be included in the talented and bountiful 147-pound division. The 10-round main event will showcase an all out power versus power welterweight war
As the co-main event of the evening East L.A.'s Aron "Asesino" Martinez (15-1-1,
3 KOs) will rage against Escondido's Dashon "Fly Boy" Johnson (13-4-3, 4 KOs) in
an eight-round welterweight bout. Martinez is enjoying a 3-year, 7-fight winning
streak and he recently out-pointed Joseph Elegele on a nationally televised event
last summer. Johnson has a two-fight winning streak and targets a victory over the
talented Martinez to prove he has plenty of staying power.
In undercard action...
In a six-round super bantamweight match Riverside's undefeated Richard "El Terminador"
Contreras (9-0, 8 KOs) faces Mexico's Daniel "El Cuate" Quevedo (13-12-1, 8 KOs).
In his last bout, the 21-year-old Contreras, stopped the extremely tough Juan Sandoval
by technical knockout in a true slugfest. Quevedo, who hails out of Sinaloa, Mexico,
recently fought former flyweight world champion Eric Morel. Although not a veteran,
he has got plenty of experience to make it a rough night for the Riverside youngster.
In
the preceding bout, female junior flyweights Sindy Amador (6-0, 1 KO) of Riverside
and Gloria Salas (3-6-1, 1 KO) of Palm Springs battle in a four-round affair. Amador
has a fast-paced pressure style and Salas seldom takes a step backward. Both women
have shown to be above average fighters in their division. It is sure to be an exciting,
action packed event
Also fighting on the same fight card: Rigoberto Flores (2-1, 2 KOs) meeting Alonso Loeza (1-3-1) in a four round junior welterweight bout; San Bernardino's Joshua Conley (1-0, 1 KO) faces Eduardo Herrera (0-4) in another four round welterweight bout; and San Bernardino's Louis Rose (1-0) greets Erick Prado of Oxnard in a four round middleweight clash. Prado will make his professional debut
