Boxing results, July 22 - 27: Koki Kameda, Yuri Foreman, Lucas Browne, Odlanier Solis, Marco Antonio Rubio, Cristian Mijares & much more

Made up for a lack of watching boxing last week by watching WAY too much this week. This also contributed to why this column was posted late...deal with it. As always I only list the results on bouts that I've seen and have access to, so feel free to ask questions.

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2013-07-22 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Camcorder

Naoko Yamaguchi TKO1 Chuthaporn Pradissan

WBA female super flyweight title

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2013-07-23 Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan

TBS Japan

Koki Kameda UD12 John Mark Apolinario (117-109, 118-108, 119-107)

Finally, a Koki Kameda fight where he DOESN'T go life and death with a subpar opponent. Kameda scored knockdowns in round 10 and 12 and easily retained his WBA regular bantamweight title. It was a typical Kameda stinker but it wasn't even Koki's fault this time. Apolinario simply didn't fight like a man that wanted to win.

In other news, super champion Anselmo Moreno is also scheduled to defend his crown shortly. It's about time these 2 (Koki and Chemito) fought each other already. However, Kameda seems to be targeting a move down to super flyweight to pick up a 4th world title in as many weight classes. He already holds Japan's record for being world champion in the most divisions. But even if he does break his own record, by no means will that make him one of Japan's 10 greatest fighters of all time. I suppose he could break the top 20 though, maybe. Maybe I'll write an article on Japan's finest if he pulls it off...

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2013-07-24 Roseland Ballroom, New York, New York, USA

GFL.TV

Yuri Foreman UD8 Jamaal Davis (80-72, 80-72, 80-72)

Foreman used his footwork and speed to keep Davis on the outside for the vast majority of the fight, a range where he could connect and Davis could not. Davis was unable to apply the consistent pressure necessary to trap Foreman. And whenever Davis did get inside Foreman would clinch and await a break from the referee.

This was the biggest test for Foreman since making his post-Wolak comeback and he passed with flying colors. He appears to be near prime form and should be ready for 10+ round bouts soon. As for Davis, who came off a bruising loss to Patrick Majewski earlier this year, I'm not sure where he goes from here. I hope he can rebound but I wonder if the wars have caught up to him...

Heather Hardy TKO4 Cassie Trost

Emmanuel De Jesus UD4 Khalik Memminger (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)

Travis Peterkin UD6 Hector Hernandez (60-54, 60-54, 60-54)

Bryant Cruz UD4 Nuwan Jayakody (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)

Louis Cruz UD4 Justin Robbins (40-35, 40-35, 40-35)

Louis Rose UD6 Akil Auguste (59-55, 59-55, 59-55)

Ytalo Perea TKO1 John Orr

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2013-07-25 The Melbourne Pavilion, Flemington, Victoria, Australia

Fox Sports (Australia) / Sky Sport (New Zealand)

Lucas Browne RTD7 Travis Walker

Walker got his typical early knockdown and fell apart from the 3rd round onward. Browne was down in round 1 while Walker went down in rounds 3, 5, and 6. Walker went for the knockout in round 7 and after he couldn't get it, quit on his stool. Thus Browne improved to 17-0, 15 by way of knockout. Although he's yet to fight Mark de Mori or Alex Leapai, it's safe to say he's the best heavyweight in Australia now.

Jake Carr UD10 Serge Yannick (97-94, 96-95, 96-94)

Australian super middleweight title

Blake Caparello MD12 Daniel MacKinnon (114-114, 118-111, 116-112)

PABA light heavyweight title

Daniel Smith UD4 Henry Torres (40-36, 40-36, 39-37)

This was a damn good 4 rounder. Problem is I don't think the right guy won. Yet 2 judges saw it a shutout for Smith...

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2013-07-25 Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Camcorder

Kyotaro Fujimoto TKO6 Okello Peter

Vacant Japanese heavyweight title

Masayoshi Nakatani KO3 Shuhei Tsuchiya

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2013-07-25 Club Sportlife, Kiev, Ukraine

Elite Boxing Promotion

Oleg Malynovskyy UD8? Khavazhy Khatsyhau

Featherweight prospect Malynovskyy improved to 9-0.

Stanyslav Skorokhod TKO3 Valentyn Zbrozhek

Ilya Prymak RTD3 Valentyn Kuts

Roman Zhailauov TKO4 Artem Skornyakov

Yevgeniy Smetana UD4 Ivan Pritula

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2013-07-26 Club Social Alejandro Korn, Alejandro Korn, Buenos Aires, Argentina

TV Publica

Carolina Raquel Duer UD10 Mayra Alejandra Gomez (96-94, 96-94, 98-92)

Vacant WBO female bantamweight title

Mauricio Ezequiel Biedma UD6 Leonardo Ochenduzka (59-56, 59-54, 58.5-57)

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2013-07-26 Letnja pozornica, Cetinje, Montenegro

Camcorder

Dragan Roganovic UD10 Goran Milenkovic (99-93?, 98-92?, 98-93?)

WBC CISBB middleweight title

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2013-07-26 Bangkok, Thailand

Thai TV 3

Teerachai Kratingdaenggym TKO2 Ashley Sean Byrne

PABA welterweight title

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2013-07-26 Thunder Valley Casino Resort, Lincoln, California, USA

ESPN

Juan Carlos Burgos D12 Yakubu Amidu (116-112, 112-116, 114-114)

Scott Christ recapped the main event and co-feature here. Can't say I agree with Scott about the score though. Amidu won. Facebook had it the same as the judge with the 8-4 scorecard for Amidu. I thought it was more like 7-5. Overall Burgos was busier but Amidu was more accurate and a lot more durable. Amidu was also the aggressor throughout. At multiple points during the fight it looked like Burgos was on the verge of being knocked out. The last round was clear to Amidu in my eyes, even upon 2nd viewing. ESPN just did a terrible job of giving Amidu credit for all the hard punches he landed. Had Scott scored that round for Amidu, he would have had the same score as me (115-113 Amidu).

Miguel Gonzalez TKO8 Josenilson Dos Santos

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2013-07-26 Fox Theater, Redwood City, California, USA

The Boxing Network

Paul Mendez UD10 Dashon Johnson (98-92, 99-91, 98-92?)

IBA middleweight title

Bruno Escalante RTD1 Manuel Galaviz

Andy Vences TKO4 Noe Lucas

Juan Hernandez TKO1 Payton Boyea

Ricardo Pinell KO3 Stanley Harvey

Darwin Price TKO4 Luis Sanchez

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2013-07-27 Kugelbake-Halle, Cuxhaven, Niedersachsen, Germany

Eurosport / BOXFOTOGRAF.DE

Odlanier Solis KO7 Yakup Saglam

Solis looked pretty good for a fat guy. He's probably still the best fat heavyweight in boxing. He's hoping this IBF Inter-Continental heavyweight title defense against Saglam will get him the winner of Kubrat Pulev vs Tony Thompson, but he'll be lucky enough to get the loser. Odlanier's opposition has been pretty abysmal since his 1st round TKO loss to Vitali Klitschko over 2 years ago, where he did pretty well before the knockdown (and subsequent leg injury).

But let's get back to this Saglam fight. This was another horrible referee job. It's not that he stopped the fight. That was debatable enough. It's that he actually counted to 10 despite the fact that Saglam was completely up by 9. Referees, please, if you don't think a guy is fit to continue, stop the fight. But don't pretend they didn't beat the count when they clearly did. I've seen this happen 3 times in the last few weeks alone now.

That aside, Solis finished the fight with a beautiful overhand right.

Ignacio Mendoza UD12 Ramon de la Cruz Sena (117-111, 117-111, 114-111)

Sena was down in round 2 and out classed early but came back to drop Mendoza HARD in round 4. The average man would have been knocked out. Yet Mendoza got himself back into the fight, despite going down again in round 6, and stayed on his feet for the final 6 rounds to pick up the vacant IBF Inter-Continental light welterweight title. He's expected to be matched with Selcuk Aydin next (who was victorious on the undercard).

Roamer Alexis Angulo TKO2 Dario German Balmaceda

Vacant IBF Latino super middleweight title

Selcuk Aydin KO8 Aaron Herrera

Uensal Arik TKO3 Omar Siala

Agit Kabayel TKO2 Ergin Solmaz

Enad Licina UD6 Marko Rupcic

Vincent Feigenbutz PTS6 Tiran Mkrtschjan

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2013-07-27 Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China

HBO & UniMas (USA) / Azteca 7 (Mexico)

Zou Shiming UD6 Jesus Ortega (59-55, 59-55, 59-55)

Scott Christ recapped the main events here. Shiming won his 2nd pro fight.

Juan Francisco Estrada UD12 Milan Melindo (118-109, 117-109, 118-109)

Estrada defended his WBO and super WBA flyweight titles.

Evgeny Gradovich UD12 Mauricio Javier Munoz (119-109, 119-109, 120-108)

Scott also recapped this bout here. Gradovich retained his IBF featherweight title.

Andy Ruiz Jr TKO4 Joe Hanks

...and this one here. Ruiz picked up the vacant WBO Inter-Continental heavyweight title.

Rex Tso MD6 Rusalee Samor (57-57, 58-56, 59-55)

...and the rest of the undercard here.

Genesis Servania TSD9 Konosuke Tomiyama (87-82, 84-85, 86-83)

WBO Asia Pacific super bantamweight title

Dave Penalosa TKO3 Ngaotawa Sithsaithong

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2013-07-27 Palenque de la Fería, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico

Televisa

Marco Antonio Rubio TKO2 Dionisio Miranda

Rubio got an easy victory and will march on to a mandatory shot at the interim WBC title. His opponent could be Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (again) if Chavez decides to continue to campaign at middleweight.

Marcos Reyes UD10 Amilcar Edgardo Funes Melian (98-90?, 98-91?, 98-91?) [No scores announced]

Jessica Chavez UD10 Tenkai Tsunami (99-91?, 99-91?, 97-93?) [No scores announced]

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2013-07-27 Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico

Azteca 7 (Mexico) / Azteca America (USA)

Cristian Mijares TKO6 Carlos Jacobo

Mijares rebounded nicely from his questionable split decision loss to Victor Terrazas 3 months earlier. Jacobo was a late replacement for Cristobal Cruz. This bout was contested at a catchweight of 128lbs.

Emanuel Lopez KO7 Deivis Perez

Luis Solis UD6 Joaquin Cruz [No scores announced]

Jose Cifuentes UD6 Albert Pacheco [No scores announced]

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2013-07-27 Trade And Entertainment Centre "Moskva", Kaspiysk, Russia

Boytsovskiy Klub

Movsur Yusupov RTD5 Mada Maugo

Maugo was dropped in the 5th and quit after the round ended. Yusupov remains an unbeaten light heavyweight prospect. Highlight of the fight came when the referee shoved Maugo for hitting Yusupov after the bell.

Natalia Smirnova TKO3 Veronika Hornyak

Vacant WIBA International, vacant GBU Female, and WBC Silver International Female lightweight titles

Apti Ustarkhanov KO7 Benson Mwakyembe

Mwakyembe complained about being hit behind the head and got on all fours. The referee then counted him out. For whatever reason I can only remember African fighters doing this...but for what it's worth Mwakyembe clearly took multiple, overt power shots to the back of the head. Mwakyembe quit regardless, but Ustarkhanov could have been disqualified by an impartial referee.

Apti Davtaev TKO1 Semen Pakhomov

Gasan Gasanov UD6 Gor Akopyan

Aliklych Kanbolatov UD6 Andriy Danichkin

Vadim Kashin UD6 Roman Ivanov

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2013-07-27 Pretoria North Town Hall, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Camcorder

Danie Venter UD6 Elvis Moyo (59-55, 58-56, 59-55)

Heavyweights

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2013-07-27 Newport Centre, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

Warrior Promotions

Frankie Borg RTD6 Gary Cooper

Vacant BBBofC Welsh Area middleweight title

Craig Woodruff KO6 Dai Davies

Vacant British Masters super featherweight title

Jerome Samuels TKO1 Tom Price

Craig Kennedy PTS6 Will Burkin

Peter Ashton PTS4 Matt Seawright

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2013-07-27 Finish Line Sports Grill, Pomona, California, USA

Pandemonium Fights (pandemoniumfightclub.com)

Hector Serrano UD6 Luis Alfredo Lugo (59-55, 58-56, 60-54)

Light welterweights

Heather Clark D4 Maia Stevenson (37-39, 39-37, 38-38)

Anthony Johnson TKO6 Danny Garcia

Luis Hernandez D6 Osman Rivera (56-58, 58-56, 57-57)

Alejandro Galarza TKO3 John Hyde

Carlos Medina UD4 Santos Vasquez (40-34, 40-34, 39-35)

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2013-07-27 Twin River Event Center, Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA

Fight-Stream.com

Richard Gingras D8 Vladine Biosse (76-76, 76-76 [changed from 77-76], 77-75)

Here's a press release detailing the full card, because, well, I don't feel like doing it myself... Ultimately Biosse barely retained his USA New England super middleweight title after initially being announced the loser. Light welterweight contender Hank Lundy was in the ring to put the title around Richard's waist. Poor Richard. He had a career best moment snatched from away from him because someone failed at math.

Chris Chatman UD8 Thomas Falowo (77-75, 77-75, 77-75)

Russell Lamour TKO6 Joe Gardner

Marcia Agripino UD4 Vanessa Greco (39-36, 40-35, 40-35)

KJ Harrison-Lombardi UD4 Maceo Crowder (39-37, 40-36, 40-36)

Joe Wilson Jr UD4 Saul Almeida (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)

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2013-07-27 AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Showtime (USA) / BoxNation (UK)

Jesus Soto Karass TKO12 Andre Berto

Scott Christ recapped this bout here. Karass picked up the vacant NABF welterweight title.

Omar Figueroa UD12 Nihito Arakawa (118-108, 118-108, 119-107)

...and this one here. Figueroa won the interim WBC lightweight title.

Keith Thurman TKO10 Diego Gabriel Chaves

...and this one here. Thurman lifted the interim WBA World welterweight title.

Anthony Dirrell TKO3 Anthony Hanshaw

...and the rest of the televised undercard here.

Joseph Rodriguez UD4 Jesse Anguiano (39-37, 40-36, 40-36)

Armando Cardenas TKO1 Stephen Salazar

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#QuitCounter2013 is back this week with a whopping 10 new additions, highlighted in bold. The total is now at 122.

2013-01-05 Reyes Sanchez RTD5/TKO6 Ramiro Alcaraz
2013-01-11 Brandon Holmes TKO4 Javier Esparza
2013-01-11 Kwanpichit OnesongchaiGym TKO4 Noli Morales
2013-01-12 Hector Alfredo Avila RTD6/TKO7 Emilio Ezequiel Zarate
2013-01-12 Matias Carlos Adrian Rueda RTD3/TKO4 Sergio Alejandro Blanco
2013-01-18 Brandon Riddell TKO1 Eric McNorris
2013-01-19 Khalid Yafai RTD4 Gonzalo Garcia
2013-01-19 Roberto Feliciano Bolonti RTD7/TKO8 Franco Raul Sanchez
2013-01-23 Delen Parsley RTD2 Tyrone Selders
2013-01-23 Eugene Russell KO1 Granson Clark
2013-01-25 Brian Vera TKO10 Serhiy Dzinziruk
2013-01-25 Edgar Santana TKO3 Eddie Soto
2013-01-25 Franklin Lawrence RTD2 Mark Brown
2013-01-25 Omar Douglas RTD2 David Warren Huffman
2013-01-30 Erick Martinez TKO2 Miguel Angel Garcia Nava
2013-02-01 Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo RTD4 Arief Blader
2013-02-08 Kevin Bizier RTD8 Nate Campbell
2013-02-09 Carlos Gabriel Ozan KO1 Modesto Rodriguez
2013-02-09 Javier Francisco Maciel TKO5 Emilio Julio Julio
2013-02-09 Micki Nielsen KO1 Josef Krivka
2013-02-09 Saul Juarez KO10 Armando Torres
2013-02-16 Brandon Cook RTD3 Raul Saiz
2013-02-16 Demetrius Hopkins RTD6 Charles Whittaker
2013-02-16 Jamel Herring RTD3 Carlos Lopez
2013-02-16 Joel Tambwe Djeko TKO6 Bassam Belkhir
2013-02-21 Czar Amonsot RTD6 Addisu Tebebu
2013-02-21 Patrick Day RTD1 Dominique Foster
2013-02-22 Ariel Vega TKO4 Jose Rodriquez
2013-02-22 Christian Hammer RTD6 Oleksiy Mazikin
2013-02-22 Manuel Charr RTD2 Yakup Saglam
2013-02-22 Simona Galassi RTD2 Gabriella Vicze
2013-02-22 Yunier Dorticos RTD3 Willie Herring
2013-02-23 Chris Avalos RTD4 Jose Luis Araiza
2013-02-26 Petch Kokietgym RTD8 Albert Alcoy
2013-03-01 Michal Syrowatka KO2 Laszlo Robert Balogh
2013-03-02 Genesis Servania TKO7 Angky Angkotta
2013-03-08 Renato De Donato TKO6 Antonio Santoro
2013-03-09 Darren Barker RTD4 Simone Rotolo
2013-03-09 Giovanni De Carolis RTD4 Artem Solomko
2013-03-09 Jon Hill RTD1 Greg Maynard
2013-03-10 Michael McLaughlin RTD1 Jimmy LeBlanc
2013-03-15 Armando Cruz RTD2 / TKO3 Carlos Martin
2013-03-15 Gary Cornish TKO5 Humberto Evora
2013-03-15 Levan Ghvamichava RTD3 Angel Rios
2013-03-15 Sultahn Staton RTD2 Kenneth Brown
2013-03-16 Gustavo David Vittori TKO2 Diego Fernando Neira
2013-03-16 Marco Antonio Periban KO2 Samuel Miller
2013-03-16 Yesica Yolanda Bopp RTD5 Carolina Alvarez
2013-03-22 Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo TKO5 Nathan Bolcio
2013-03-22 Luciano Leonel Cuello RTD7/TKO8 Joaquim Carneiro
2013-03-22 Marc Pagcaliwangan RTD1 Jose Adan Fernandez
2013-03-22 Michael Walsh vs Krisztian Laufer
2013-03-22 Pedro Campa RTD4/TKO5 Ivan Gutierrez
2013-03-23 Robert Stieglitz TKO4 Arthur Abraham
2013-03-25 Petch Kokietgym KO8 Dondon Jimenea
2013-03-29 Josh Wale RTD9 Ashley Lane
2013-03-29 Oleydong Sithsamerchai TKO7 Richard Garcia
2013-03-29 Tony Ingelrest RTD3 Ivica Cukusic
2013-03-30 Apti Davtaev RTD2 Ivan Bogdanov
2013-03-30 Callum Smith RTD1 Iain Jackson
2013-04-06 Azea Augustama RTD2 David McNemar
2013-04-06 Mark de Mori RTD4 Jonathan Pasi
2013-04-06 Roman Skerlo TKO1 Tarik Ipek
2013-04-06 Travis Clark TKO1 Martez Williamson
2013-04-08 Shinsuke Yamanaka TKO12 Malcolm Tunacao
2013-04-09 Saiyok Poompanmuang KO2 Muhammad Sapata
2013-04-12 Mikael Zewski KO2 Daniel Sostre
2013-04-18 Teerachai Kratingdaenggym KO3 Ronnel Esparas
2013-04-19 Andy Townend RTD8 Ben Wager
2013-04-19 Konstantin Airich TKO1 Claudiu George Dinu
2013-04-19 Konstantin Airich TKO1 Wieslaw Kwasniewski
2013-04-20 Artur Szpilka RTD1 Taras Bidenko
2013-04-20 Callum Smith KO1 Ruslans Pojonisevs
2013-04-20 Luis Alejandro Tejerina TKO3 Claudio Esteban Romero
2013-04-26 Mark de Mori TKO1 Iko Dzafic
2013-04-27 Terry Flannigan RTD4 Nate Campbell
2013-05-04 Badou Jack TKO3 Michael Gbenga
2013-05-11 Ricky Burns RTD9 Jose A Gonzalez
2013-05-11 Stephen Simmons RTD3 Michael Sweeney
2013-05-15 Dmitry Kirillov RTD4 Alexander Saltykov
2013-05-15 Tor Hamer TKO3 Maurenzo Smith
2013-05-17 Andrew Gardiner RTD5 Emiliano Cayetano
2013-05-17 Dmitry Chudinov RTD3 Grady Brewer
2013-05-17 James DeGale KO2 Sebastien Demers
2013-05-17 Patomsuk Pathompothong RTD6 Jonas Segu
2013-05-17 Zach Bunce RTD3 Donald Willis
2013-05-18 Betiana Patricia Vinas KO6 Cynthia Munoz
2013-05-18 Haroon Khan TKO1 Vincente Medellin
2013-05-18 Wadi Camacho KO2 Hari Miles
2013-05-24 Jose Cayetano RTD4 Charly Valenzuela
2013-05-25 Genesis Servania KO3 Isack Junior
2013-05-25 Marcos Antonio Ahumada TKO4 Alejandro Emilio Valori
2013-05-26 Aik Shakhnazaryan RTD4 Jahongir Mamadjanov
2013-05-26 Fedor Papazov RTD6 Artem Ayvazidi
2013-05-31 Ammeth Diaz KO7 Martin Gethin
2013-06-01 Denton Daley RTD4 Faisal Ibnel Arrami
2013-06-01 Jesus Quijada TKO1 Misael Marciel Juarez
2013-06-07 Marcin Najman TKO2 Martin Pacas
2013-06-08 Erislandy Lara TKO10 Alfredo Angulo
2013-06-21 Riccardo Pintaudi vs Giuseppe Rauseo
2013-06-22 Arely Mucino KO2 Olga Julio
2013-06-26 Murat Gassiev TKO2 Levan Jomardashvili
2013-06-28 Vicente Mosquera RTD7 Cosme Rivera
2013-06-29 Ibeth Zamora Silva RTD8 Maricela Quintero
2013-07-05 Bogdan Dinu TKO1 Vladimir Toktasynov
2013-07-06 Carlos Daniel Aquino TKO3 Jose Gustavo Iturria
2013-07-06 Felix Sturm TKO4 Predrag Radosevic
2013-07-06 Tony Thompson TKO5 David Price
2013-07-12 Hughie Fury RTD5 Ivica Perkovic
2013-07-12 Rika Matsumoto TKO1 Saengrung Kwanjaisrikord
2013-07-13 Linda Laura Lecca TKO3 Lina Palmera
2013-07-13 Saul Rodriguez RTD3 Dominic Coca
2013-07-20 Israel Hector Enrique Perez RTD7 Francisco Lorenzo
2013-07-25 Ilya Prymak RTD3 Valentyn Kuts
2013-07-25 Lucas Browne RTD7 Travis Walker
2013-07-26 Bruno Escalante RTD1 Manuel Galaviz
2013-07-26 Miguel Gonzalez TKO8 Josenilson Dos Santos
2013-07-27 Apti Ustarkhanov KO7 Benson Mwakyembe
2013-07-27 Frankie Borg RTD6 Gary Cooper
2013-07-27 Movsur Yusupov RTD5 Mada Maugo
2013-07-27 Selcuk Aydin KO8 Aaron Herrera
2013-07-27 Uensal Arik TKO3 Omar Siala

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If a bout is not mentioned which took place on one of the above cards it’s most likely because I haven’t got around to watching it yet. In the event that I do watch such a bout at a later time it’s still unlikely I will update this results column. My columns will be posted once a week, devoted to cards that most casual American boxing fans haven’t seen or heard of. For available footage of the previously reported bouts follow @sweetboxing on twitter. You may also email the author of this piece at rgbivins@gmail.com.