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115-113. 116-112. 116-112. All for the winner and NEW WBO welterweight champion: Carlos Quintana!

I said it wouldn't shock me if Quintana won. But it turns out that it did.

Williams was an 8-to-1 favorite. All the talk of Williams was that he was the most avoided man in boxing, the guy no one wanted to fight. But who was rushing to fight Quintana? Everyone knows Quintana can box his ass off, at least everyone that matters.

Yet, still, boxing scribes globally were looking past this one. Who would Williams fight next? Williams himself was calling out Shane Mosley.

Quintana showed early it wasn't going to be an easy night for Williams. And I didn't think Williams ever established any real momentum. Quintana won this fight, clear and clean.

Quintana fought wonderfully. Just absolutely great. He dictated the pace, caught Williams with lefts and rights that the now ex-champ never saw coming, and even when he looked like he had tired himself out, he hung tough and even won some rounds when his legs looked bad.

As for Williams? First of all, a great loser. He did not make anything approaching an excuse, admitting he didn't execute.

But this one proves Quintana once and for all. He made mincemeat of Joel Julio. And tonight, he badly exposed an unbeaten world champion. Quintana gave Williams an utter boxing lesson.

Congratulations to Carlos Quintana on the big, big upset. Who knows where he'll go from here, but we all have to start considering this guy among the top five welters in the world now, don't we? His only loss is to Cotto. He just beat the No. 3/No. 4 guy and did it convincingly. The man can box with the best in the division. And I still think that if you run Cotto-Quintana again, it probably does not look like the first one did. That was arguably a career-best performance from Cotto. He was zoned in that night to an insane degree.

On the undercard, Andre Berto mauled Michel Trabant, forcing Trabant to quit after six rounds. It was never remotely close.

But the story of the night is Carlos Quintana, WBO welterweight champion. So ends the short story of Paul Williams, the world's most feared fighter.

MAIN EVENT
For the WBO Welterweight Title
PAUL WILLIAMS
(33-0, 24 KO, Augusta, GA)
versus
CARLOS QUINTANA
(24-1, 19 KO, Moca, Puerto Rico)

As tough as Quintana is, give me Williams by a rather wide unanimous decision. I always look forward to watching "The Punisher" fight, because he's just so damn unique.

Berto by KO in the middle rounds. Trabant will never trouble him.

Trabant is called "Phantom." It brings to mind the horrifying news that another "Phantom," Sven Ottke, is returning to the ring to fix his bank account after a costly divorce. I don't care why he's coming back. I wish Ottke no luck in his return to the squared circle. He's a complete joke. If you've never seen his alleged victory over Robin Reid, you've never seen a robbery. It made Casamayor-Santa Cruz make sense. At least Santa Cruz wasn't fighting the fatass referee, too.

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