Japan's Hozumi Hasegawa scored a unanimous decision over Mexico's Genaro Garcia on Monday to retain his WBC bantamweight title.
Hasegawa, who improved to 21-2-0 with seven knockouts, sent Garcia to the canvas in the fourth and eighth rounds with a left uppercut and right hook.
Garcia, who dropped to 35-5-0, opened a cut above Hasegawa's right eye when he accidentally head-butted him in the eighth round, but the Japanese champion ...
Diego Corrales couldn't beat Joel Casamayor or
the scales.
Casamayor won the WBC lightweight title Saturday night with a
split decision win over Corrales, who was forced to give up the belt
a day earlier when he failed to make the 135-pound weight limit.
In a fight that almost didn't happen because Corrales couldn't
make the weight, Casamayor scored the cleaner punches and more of
them to win both the vacated title and the rubber match between ...
Undefeated Tomasz Adamek outpointed No. 1
contender Paul Briggs in another bloody fight to retain the WBC
light-heavyweight title Saturday night.
Adamek (31-0) survived a first-round knockdown, a bloody nose and
left eye, and his own mishap, when he landed two low blows in the
ninth and lost a point.
Judges Ken Morita and Ray Hawkins scored it 114-112 and 115-111
for Adamek, while Mauro DiFiore had it even at 113.
``I'm very happy,'' said Adamek, who had ...
