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Shawn Porter v. Russell Jordan (ESPN2)

Feb 19, 2010 9:00 PM EST
Wolstein Center - Cleveland, OH
Porter UD-10

Miscellaneous Friday Results: William Gonzalez and Edel Ruiz win on Telemundo

Matthew Hatton got back in the win column last night in Stoke. (Photo by John Gichigi / Getty Images)

Last Night on Telemundo:

  • Bantamweights: William Gonzalez (24-3, 20 KO) UD-12 Jesus Vazquez (19-4-1, 17 KO). Gonzalez is probably best known for his competitive 2008 loss to Joseph Agbeko, a somewhat forgotten fight as it was positioned as the co-feature to Adamek-Cunningham on Versus, and it was certainly overshadowed that night. Official scores were 119-108, 119-108 and 117-110.
  • Featherweights: Edel Ruiz (34-22-4, 25 KO) TKO-4 Clarence Adams (44-7-4, 20 KO). Adams, 35, fought Kevin Kelley way back in 1995 and went to a draw, and that's probably his career highlight. Mostly he's feasted on weak competition and lost against decent fighters. Ruiz has losses on his record to -- take a breath -- Israel Vazquez, Joan Guzman, Paulie Ayala, Ricardo Castillo, Juan Manuel Lopez, Fernando Beltran Jr., Jason Litzau, Mario Santiago, Jhonny Gonzalez, and Robert Guerrero, among other, lesser-regarded fighters.

From the Friday Night Fights card in Cleveland:

  • Featherweights: Gary Russell Jr. (8-0, 5 KO) KO-1 Jairo Delgado (3-5, 3 KO). First time Delgado's been stopped. Russell hasn't picked up much attention as an American featherweight prospect, but he does have talent.

We reported most of the results from Sky's card yesterday, but here are the other off-TV winners and losers:

  • Welterweights: Matthew Hatton (38-4-2, 15 KO) TKO-5 Mikheil Khutsishvili (13-10-2, 4 KO). Not much of a win for Hatton, but he stays in shape and keeps busy. There's a lot of talk that Golden Boy is going to bring "Magic" Matty over to Las Vegas for the May 1 PPV, pitting him against their young new contender, 19-year-old Saul Alvarez. That fight would be on the Mosley-Mayweather PPV broadcast, exposing Alvarez to a big crowd, enticing the Mexican audience to buy the show, and probably serving as the opener. Or at least I hope if Matthew Hatton makes it onto a major PPV, it's in the opener.
  • Welterweights: Craig Watson (16-3, 6 KO) TKO-4 Barrie Jones (16-5, 7 KO). You might remember Jones from the junior welterweight Prizefighter in December, losing a decent scrap to Young Mutley in the opening round. This was one of two fights (along with Gary Buckland-Sam Rukundo) that would have been much more welcome on the Sky broadcast than the Edwards-Shindjuu fight that did get shown in its slap-fighting entirety.
  • Lightweights: Sergey Gulyakevich (28-2, 13 KO) RTD-2 Nikoloz Berkatashvili (15-5, 6 KO). Gulyakevich sparred with Lawton recently, hoping to prepare him for Kirakosyan, who Gulyakevich beat in 2007. Sergey gave up the European 130-pound belt to go after the interim WBC title last year, and dropped a majority decision to Humberto Gutierrez in Mexico. His two fights back have been at lightweight, and not against much by way of competition. The loss was Berkatashvili's fourth in his last five fights, and fifth in his last seven.
  • Lightweights: Stephen Foster (26-2-1, 16 KO) PTS-6 Youssef Al Hamidi (6-25-2, 1 KO). Foster is still listed at 130 on BoxRec, despite the fact he hasn't fought at that weight in nearly three years, since losing to Alex Arthur. "You know. Frederic f***ing Chopin?"
  • Featherweights: Scott Quigg (17-0, 11 KO) KO-1 Nikita Lukin (10-18-2, 3 KO). Took all of 57 seconds.

Others:

  • Junior Middleweights: Lanardo Tyner (22-3, 13 KO) UD-8 Taronze Washington (13-12, 7 KO). Tyner probably won't ever be a major contender, but the guy can fight a little. He lost wide to Saul Alvarez in December, but lasted all 12 rounds and gave the kid some really good work. His other two losses came to Lamont Peterson (UD-10) and Mike Arnaoutis (UD-12). He was closest to beating Arnaoutis, but not all that close.
  • Lightweights: Edner Cherry (26-6-2, 14 KO) TKO-1 Hevinson Herrera (14-5-1, 9 KO). Back to stomping mediocrities for Cherry, who was blown out last time most of us saw him, against Tim Bradley in 2008. Cherry has faced a lot of good and decent fighters, notably losing big to Bradley and Paulie Malignaggi, but he was competitive with Jose Armando Santa Cruz and Ricky Quiles in losses, and he's got wins over a very faded Stevie Johnston, Monty Meza Clay and two over Wes Ferguson, one of which came on the Mayweather-Hatton undercard. He's one of those guys who will always be around, but a major fight will probably require him to come in on short notice as an injury sub.

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Friday Night Fights: Shawn Porter survives first pro test

Shawn Porter stayed unbeaten tonight with a win over Russell Jordan. (Photo via shawnporterboxing.com)

Unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Shawn Porter survived his first professional test from Russell Jordan, winning a 10-round unanimous decision in Cleveland.

Porter (13-0, 10 KO) struggled with the tall, awkward Jordan, a southpaw who frequently out-fought the shorter Porter inside, making for a fight that sort of looked like Porter against an imitation Paul Williams. Porter, at 5'7", had the 6'2" Jordan towering over him all night, but did turn it on late to earn the decision victory.

Still, at least one of the scorecards was ridiculous. Two cards were 97-92 (Jordan questionably lost a point for spitting out his mouthpiece), but the third was 100-89 from judge Eugene Glenn, who also was the guy that gave Tito Mendoza a 117-111 card over Zsolt Erdei in a fight Erdei clearly won. We even managed to call the "surprising" sweep score for Porter in the live thread, because it just felt like that was going to happen.

Jordan falls to 15-7 (10 KO) with the loss.

For Porter, it was a learning experience. He definitely won the fight and I don't think anyone would argue with the decision that he won. The 100-89 card was certainly ridiculous, but he won the fight for sure. But the 22-year-old really did get his first test as a pro, and I'll say now that if it is indeed possible for Porter to make 147 pounds and still be strong, he and his team should definitely consider it. He's a very small junior middleweight in terms of height, though he is thick through the shoulders and upper body, which might make it hard for him to drop in weight. He's not in any way in bad shape, and I don't know that he can make welterweight. And if he'd lose what he has now, he shouldn't. But if he can, it's definitely something to consider for a while.

He did turn up the heat late, finally getting some good work done inside. And I'm also not discounting that Jordan is an awkward, tricky opponent, or that Porter is quite inexperienced and still a damn good prospect. He also did pass the test, for all intents and purposes. Maybe he'll be fine at 154 and will really benefit from the work he got from Jordan.

In the co-feature, Lanard Lane (11-0, 7 KO) stayed unbeaten in a very entertaining scrap with Martin Tucker (7-5, 3 KO). Tucker was outgunned and overpowered for the vast majority of the fight, and mostly just took a hell of a beating, but like Porter, Lane at least got some good work tonight and some rounds in. Lane was really never in danger, but Tucker did find some holes in his defense, especially early in the fight. Lane, 27, won on scores of 80-71, 78-74 and 77-75. I didn't do a round-by-round, but just scoring along I had it 78-74 for Lane.

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Friday Night Fights Open Thread: Shawn Porter v. Russell Jordan

Top prospect Shawn Porter headlines on Friday Night Fights. (Photo via www.prizefightpromoters.com)

Friday Night Fights is underway from the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, with top prospect Shawn Porter (12-0, 10 KO) in the main event against Russell Jordan (15-6, 10 KO). Expect a stoppage: Jordan has been stopped five times in his career.

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