Unbeaten Super middleweight Diego Pacheco (20-0, 17 KOs) scored a ninth round knockout against Marcelo Coceres (32-6-1, 18 KOs) on Saturday night at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. Coceres was game for a time until an uppercut perfectly placed by Pacheco put Coceres down for the full count. Time was 2:53.
Female super bantamweight Erika Cruz (17-2, 3 KOs) decisioned and dethroned WBA champion Mayerlin Rivas (17-5-3, 11 KOs) over ten rounds by majority decision. Scores were 95-95, 98-92, 97-93.
Bantamweight Jonathan Rodriguez (17-1-1, 7 KOs) sent former world champion Kal Yafai (27-3, 15 KOs) into retirement with a first round knockout to claim the vacant WBA Intercontinental title. Rodriguez put Yafai down twice before the inevitable stoppage from the referee. Time was 2:17.
Unbeaten lightweight Marc Castro (11-0, 8 KOs) annihilated Gonzalo Fuenzalida (12-3, 3 KOs) for seven rounds before the referee stoppages. Time was 2:31.
Junior lightweight Jalan Walker (12-0-1, 10 KOs) remained unbeaten in his defeat of Jorge Villegas (14-2, 13 KOs) via second round stoppage. 2:55.
Super lightweight Criztec Bazaldua (3-0, 1 KO) halted Pedro Angel Cruz (3-4, 2 KOs) in the fourth round. Time was :46.
Carlos Cuadras and Pedro Guevara put on a show for the watching public in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as they battled for the vacant WBC world title.
Cuadras pressured the action from the start whilst also getting himself a knockdown in the second. Guevara managed to fight his way back into the bout but again Cuadras scored a knockdown, this time in the sixth.
The rounds ran away from Guevara who needed that elusive knockout but failed to do so as the judges at ringside rendered scores of 116-110, 115-111 whilst the third judges somehow had Guevara winning by a score of 115-111.
Heavyweight Bakhodir “The Big Uzbek” Jalolov only needed a round to dissemble the challenge of South African Chris Thompson.
The left hand of Jalalov was a major advantage, rocking Thompson almost immediately before a few more put the fight to bed.
Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov pitched a shutout and won a decision over Runqi Zhou of China over eight rounds. All three judges scored the fight 80-72 for Mirzakhalilov, who improves to 3-0, 2 KOs. Zhou sees his record fall to 6-2-1, 2 KOs.
Mujibillo Tursunov was again impressive in his shutout of Yangcheng Jin. All three judges had the fight 80-72 for Tursunov.
In a WBC featherweight final eliminator, Nick “The Wrecking” Ball (19-0, 11 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over former world champion Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (24-4, 15 KOs) on Saturday night at the AO Arena in Manchester, England.
Ball out worked Dogboe and scored a knockdown in the fourth to win by scores of 118-109, 116-111, 119-108.
Middleweight Nathan Heaney (18-0, 6 KOs) dethroned British champion Denzel Bentley (18-3-1, 15 KOs) over twelve rounds via majority decision 114-114, 116-113, 117-111.
EBU European super bantamweight champion Liam Davies (15-0, 7 KOs) scored a fifth round stoppage over EU champ Vincenzo La Femina (13-1, 7 KOs).
Davies went toe to toe with La Femina, dropping him in the third round before being dropped himself. Davies got back on track in the fourth with another knockdown before the stoppage came in the fifth. Time was 2:50.
“Horrible” Harry Scarff (13-2, 3 KOs) dethroned previously unbeaten British welterweight champion Ekow Essuman (19-1, 7 KOs) over twelve rounds by scores of 116-113, 117-112, 115-113.





