Saturday Global Boxing Results: Marquez, Ward, Froch Big Winners On a Big Night

by Scott Christ on Nov 28, 2010 1:12 AM EST in Boxing Results and Post-Fight Analysis

It was a busy Saturday in boxing, so let's take a look around and see what went down.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Juan Manuel Marquez TKO-9 Michael Katsidis ... Andre Berto TKO-1 Freddy Hernandez ... Jason Litzau SD-10 Celestino Caballero ... Walter Estrada SD-8 Nate Campbell ... Erislandy Lara TKO-1 Tim Connors.
Quick Thoughts: Marquez and Katsidis put on a great fight as expected. Berto's fight was obscene. Litzau's upset was kind of inspirational. Nate Campbell is done.
Full recap here.

Oakland, California

Andre Ward UD-12 Sakio Bika.
Quick Thoughts: Brick says that the fight was far closer than the scores (including one 120-108 shutout for Ward), but feels the right man won. That seems to be the consensus.
Full recap here.

Helsinki, Finland

Carl Froch UD-12 Arthur Abraham: Not even a remotely close fight. Abraham was awful, Froch brilliant. Full recap here.
Robert Helenius TKO-2 Attila Levin: Helenius (14-0, 9 KO) floored Levin (34-4, 27 KO) in the second round, but then Levin, a big old fellow himself against the 6'6" Helenius, roared back with all he had. It didn't last much longer before the referee stopped it in Helenius' favor, but it was fun while it lasted. Helenius really isn't a contender yet, but the way things are going down in the heavyweight division, he might wind up in a fight he doesn't belong in next.

Tijuana, Mexico

Giovani Segura RTD-7 Manuel Vargas: Segura (26-1-1, 22 KO) retains the junior flyweight championship of the world and presumably heads back into talks for a rematch with ex-champ Ivan Calderon. That fight has been rumored for April 23 in Puerto Rico.
Miguel Vazquez UD-12 Ricardo Dominguez: I sincerely hope this is the last time that Dominguez gets put in with a top lightweight for a while. This wide loss (120-108, 118-110, 119-109) follows a wide loss to Humberto Soto in May, with a win over crummy Adailton de Jesus in between. Vazquez (27-3, 12 KO) retains the IBF lightweight title he won in August over Ji Hoon Kim. Vazquez's three losses are to Saul Alvarez (twice, including Vazquez's pro debut in 2006) and Timothy Bradley. Not bad. He's one to watch in 2011.

Civitavecchia, Italy

Silvio Branco UD-12 Vincenzo Rossitto: At age 44 and a year removed from his most recent title shot, Branco took on Rossitto, a European level cruiserweight, and was able to come out victorious. He's looking for yet another title shot, and is hoping to win at least a fringe title in his fourth weight class.

Cebu City, Philippines

Milan Melindo UD-10 Carlos Tamara: Since flyweight is fairly deep, Melindo (23-0, 7 KO) isn't quite in serious contention just yet, but this is a good win, coming on scores of 98-92, 98-92 and 97-93.
Rocky Fuentes TKO-2 Inthanon Sithchamuang: Fuentes (28-6-2, 18 KO) is better than his record, and retains the OPBF flyweight belt. At 24, he learned on the job early in his career and hasn't lost since 2007.
Florante Condes TKO-7 Kenichi Horikawa: Condes (25-5-1, 21 KO) gets his second win of 2010 after a 2009 loss to Nkosinathi Joyi.
Randy Suico MD-8 Arnel Tinampay: Yes, Suico's still banging along, and now he's scoring tight decisions against guys with .500 records.

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heres my opinion on the pacquiao sweepstakes..

berto needs to fight cotto if he wants a shot at pacquiao. he hasn’t fought any elite fighters for him to even be considered in the pacquiao sweepstakes. i like the humbleness that he has in that he knows he doesn’t truly deserve a pacquiao fight just yet. he says he wants to go in order from mosley to cotto to pacquiao in 2011.

as for marquez, a rubber match would be nice between the two. marquez moving up to 147 to fight pacquiao would be a really bad idea, though, so id rather see that fight at 140. anything above 140 would make this fight irrelevent.

mosley is getting there in age. he hasn’t proved anything in his last two fights that would make anyone say he can hang with the elite anymore, so this fight would be useless as well.

sergio martinez would be an interesting fight, but pacquiao would probably lose due to the weight disparity.. yet i’d love to see him try (anyone who says pacquiao is ducking martinez.. shut up. you don’t know boxing.)

only plausible fight out there is mayweather, but i don’t think it’ll ever happen. hopefully cotto-berto takes place and if berto beats cotto he can fight pacquiao.. but then again that will be a while since cotto’s gonna fight margarito.

manny should just retire.

by D00M on Nov 28, 2010 5:26 AM EST reply actions

oh and..

carl froch amazed me by his performance against abraham. i seriously thought abraham would get him toward the middle of the fight, but froch stepped up his game tremendously.. i’d loove to see a kessler rematch

as for S.O.G., he’s a superb fighter, but i hate his style. his fights get boring, fast..

and if lucian bute were in this tournament i think it would be a lot more interesting.

by D00M on Nov 28, 2010 5:32 AM EST reply actions

Froch

has always had pretty good boxing ability.He has just tended to get drawn into brawls and against Andre Dirrell,even though he was out-slicked,Dirrell was running like a ‘fraidy cat all night so Carl was pushing his shots and trying to load up,which made him look amateurish.
I have followed him since the world amateur championships(where he won bronze) and he can box when he wants to,has a good jab and keeps his defence tighter when he stays disciplined.
His trainer Robert McCracken is always telling him to do this in the corner,and last night he listened and concentrated.
Great win for Froch but i have to say,Abraham was absolutley dreadful.
I have read reports before from his trainer Uli Wegner saying that AA likes the party lifestyle and fast cars and doesn’t commit to training like he should.At the end of the fight Wegner looked very angry to me.
Froch’s range,movement and boxing skills won him the fight but Abraham looked like he was getting gassed in the second half (though that could have been to do with the quality body shots Froch landed) and just didn’t try,a la Joshua Clottey.
What is it with these turtle shell fighters?? :)

by Matt Mosley on Nov 28, 2010 6:43 AM EST reply actions

Turtle Shell Fighters?

Maybe they’re just not very good. As for AA being gassed – why? How? He did less than I do walking the dog for ten minutes.

Don't tell me I play bum notes - I KNOW!

by Randy Loathsome on Nov 30, 2010 4:33 PM EST up reply actions

Just moving around for 12 rounds

while getting punched regularly can take it’s toll,especially if a fighter is not fit as a fiddle,however i take your point.
I was just referring to when i saw Abraham with his mouth open a few times in the fight,which is a sign of being gassed/tired,but like i said that could well have been (and most likely was) because of the body shots which we know AA doesn’t like. :)

by Matt Mosley on Nov 30, 2010 6:04 PM EST reply actions