Neuigkeiten » ed for photographers.Bellew, 34, is taking on Hay

A roundup of the past weeks notable boxing results from around the world:Saturday at Las VegasTerence Crawford W12 Viktor Postol - Fight RecapUnifies two junior welterweight titles Scores: 118-107 (twice), 117-108 Records: Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs); Postol (28-1, 12 KOs)Rafaels remarks: For a fight that many viewed as one that would be quite competitive, Crawford, 28, of Omaha, Nebraska, shut down that notion pretty quickly in a dominant win against Postol, 32, of Ukraine, to unify 140-pound titles, stamp himself as the worlds best in the division without a doubt and drive home his worthiness as a top pound-for-pound talent. He also set himself up for a possible Nov. 5 showdown against unretiring Manny Pacquiao in what would be a very intriguing potential changing-of-the-guard fight.The 5-foot-11 Postol, who owned a three-inch height advantage, appeared to tower over Crawford and early on it looked like Crawford, who is typically a slow starter, might have a long night. After a shaky first three rounds, however, Crawford figured Postol out and romped to the win. Perhaps it was not the most scintillating performance, but Crawford did as he pleased, landed left hands almost at will and left Postol with no answers on how to deal with his speed, movement or punches from assorted angles. The CompuBox statistics illustrated that well as Crawford landed 141 of 388 punches (36 percent) to Postols 83 of 244 (34 percent). More notably, Postol averaged landing seven of 20 punches per round to Crawfords 12 of 32. Postol averaged landing 20 of 71 punches per round in his previous five fights. That tells you how good Crawfords defense is.Oscar Valdez KO2 Matias Adrian Rueda - Fight RecapWins a vacant featherweight title Records: Valdez (20-0, 18 KOs); Rueda (26-1, 23 KOs)Rafaels remarks: From the moment Valdez, 25, Mexicos only two-time Olympic boxer (2008 and 2012) turned pro he was viewed as a blue-chip prospect expected to win a world title. He did just that and in devastating fashion in this pure destruction of Rueda, 28, whose beautiful record had been build against a series of nobodies in his native Argentina. Valdez, who dreamed of winning a world title since he began boxing at age 8, won the belt vacated last month when Vasyl Lomachenko moved up to junior lightweight and won a world title. And Valdez did it impressively in a breakout performance as he displayed power with both hands. His left hook, especially to the body, was particularly devastating.With the 126-pound belt in hand, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has big plans for Valdez, beginning with a likely first title defense on Nov. 26 in Tucson, Arizona, where he grew up after his family came to the United States.Jose Benavidez Jr. W10 Francisco Chia SantanaWelterweight Scores: 100-90, 98-92, 96-94 Records: Benavidez (25-0, 16 KOs); Santana (24-5-1, 12 KOs)Rafaels remarks: The shutout score from judge Adalaide Byrd was absolutely outrageous and the 98-92 card from Glenn Feldman wasnt the best either. Although Benavidez, 24, of Phoenix, won the fight this was very close all the way as Santana, 30, of Santa Barbara, California, was super aggressive and came at Benavidez nonstop, forcing him to the ropes for long stretches. But Benavidez, a former interim junior welterweight titlist forced up in weight because of ongoing problems making 140 pounds, fought well off the ropes as he countered Santana effectively. Santana, who is usually in good fights, did not hurt his standing with the loss because of the tremendous effort and entertainment value he put out.Oleksandr Gvozdyk KO6 Tommy KarpencyLight heavyweight Records: Gvozdyk (11-0, 11 KOs); Karpency (26-6-1, 15 KOs).Rafaels remarks: Every prospect needs to overcome a moment of adversity at some point to make him a better fighter. Gvozdyk, a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist from Ukraine with the look of a future world champion, got his in the first round when Karpency, a former two-time world title challenger (who also owns an upset decision win against former light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson), shockingly dropped him with a right hand he never saw.Gvozdyk, 29, trained by star trainer Robert Garcia, was hurt but got himself together and then took over the fight as he busted up Karpency, a 30-year-old southpaw from Adah, Pennsylvania, and battered him to the end. By the time the fight was over Karpency was bleeding from gash on the bridge of his nose, had a messed up left eye and was being overwhelmed by Gvozdyks superb power. In the sixth round, Gvozdyk ended the fight when he landed a right hand to the body and Karpency went down to a knee, where he took the count from referee Kenny Bayless at 2 minutes, 21 seconds.Saturday at San AntonioFabian Maidana TKO6 Jorge MaysonetWelterweight Records: Maidana (10-0, 7 KOs); Maysonet (13-2, 11 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Maidana, 24, of Argentina, is the younger brother of former junior welterweight and welterweight titleholder Marcos Maidana, who was ringside to watch him take apart Maysonet, 26, of Puerto Rico, in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on NBC Sports Net. Maysonet bloodied Maidanas nose in the first round but Maidana shook it off and pressured him throughout the fight. He landed nearly triple the amount of punches (60-22, according to CompuBox) and steadily broke him down until Maysonets corner threw in the towel following the sixth round.Maidana was fighting in the same city where his older brother scored his biggest win in 2013, when he battered Adrien Broner to win a unanimous decision and a welterweight world title.Alan Castano W8 Aaron GarciaMiddleweight Scores: 78-74 (three times) Records: Castano (11-0, 7 KOs); Garcia (15-6-1, 10 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Powered by his right hand, Castano got off to a quick start and raised swelling over Garcias left eye almost immediately and then nailed him with repeated combinations in the second round. In the third round, an accidental head butt resulted in a bloody gash over Garcias right eye. There was good action in the bout, including in the fourth round. It was a competitive bout but Castano, fighting past the sixth round for the first time, got the better of the exchanges and landed the crisper punches.Also on the card, southpaw junior featherweight Brandon Figueroa (9-0, 7 KOs), 19, of Weslaco, Texas and the younger brother of former lightweight world titleholder Omar Figueroa, dropped Adalberto Zorrilla (7-2, 7 KOs), 24, of Puerto Rico, twice in the third round en route to a stoppage with 16 seconds left in the round.Friday at Mashantucket, Conn.Adam Lopez D10 Roman Ruben ReynosoJunior featherweight Scores: 96-94 Lopez, 97-93 Reynoso, 95-95 Records: Lopez (15-0-1, 7 KOs); Reynoso (18-1-2, 7 KOs)Rafaels remarks: In the main event of a 15th anniversary card of Showtimes popular prospect series, ShoBox: The New Generation, Lopez, 25, of San Antonio and Reynoso, 25, of Argentina battled to a draw in an entertaining action fight that defined what the series is about: competitive fights between prospects.Although Lopez was the favorite, Reynoso gave him a pitched battle. Lopez, however, had a big 10th round when he hurt Reynoso with a flurry of shots in the final seconds of the fight, forcing him spit out his mouthpiece, a move that bought him almost 30 seconds of rest and allowed him to recover enough to stay upright for the rest of the fight in what could have been a decisive round had he not spit the bit. All three judges gave Lopez the 10th round 10-9. Had Lopez knocked him down he would have taken the round 10-8 and won the fight.There was a lot on the line besides just being on national TV in a main event. Jonathan Guzman (22-0, 22 KOs), who won a junior featherweight world title a few days earlier, was at ringside having said he was hoping to make his first defense against the winner. Those plans have changed since it was a draw.Jerry Odom KO3 Julius JacksonSuper middleweight Records: Odom (14-2-1, 13 KOs); Jackson (19-2, 15 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Odom, 23, of Washington, D.C., took the fight on 10 days notice when Ronald Ellis dropped out with a hand injury and scored a tremendous one-punch knockout of Jackson, 28, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Odom obliterated Jackson, one of the fighting sons of former junior middleweight and middleweight titleholder Julian Jackson, with a huge right hand at 1 minute, 57 seconds of the third round. Referee Arthur Mercante Jr. immediately called off the fight.Jackson, like his father and brother John Jackson, has a poor chin and paid the price again, getting starched for the second consecutive fight inside three rounds.There were also two other fights on the telecast. Lightweight Rolando Chinea (13-1-1, 6 KOs), 25, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, won a split decision against OShaquie Foster (10-2, 7 KOs), 22, of Orange, Texas, in a tough fight to score -- 79-73 and 78-74 for Chinea and 77-75 for Foster.Also, junior middleweight Ian Green (10-1, 8 KOs), 22, of Paterson, New Jersey (and with former junior welterweight titleholder Kendall Holt, also of Paterson, working in his corner), knocked out Khiary Gray-Pitts (13-1, 10 KOs), 23, of Worcester, Massachusetts, at 2 minutes, 50 seconds of the second round. After being staggered in the first round, Green, a late substitute, dropped Gray-Pitts twice in the second round.Thursday at Mashantucket, Conn.Sergiy Derevyanchenko KO2 Sam SolimanMiddleweight - Title eliminator Records: Derevyanchenko (9-0, 7 KOs); Soliman (44-14, 18 KOs)Rafaels remarks: The Premier Boxing Champions main event on ESPN was poor on paper and in the ring. Although Derevyanchenko, 30, of Ukraine and living in Brooklyn, New York, is one of the top up-and-comers in boxing, he is not your average 9-0 fighter. He was a 2008 Olympian, went 390-20 as an amateur and was also 23-1 in World Series of Boxing competition. Former world titleholder Soliman, 42, of Australia, has always made terrible television fights and now is significantly past his prime as well. He came into the fight having boxed 516 rounds, most of any notable active fighter, was coming off a 13-month layoff, multiple knee injuries and now has lost three fights in a row.No way should he have been in a televised main event, not to mention a title eliminator, which this fight was. It was an eliminator for No. 2 in a sanctioning body with the winner to move a step closer to a mandatory fight with unified titleholder Gennady Golovkin.Derevyanchenko, known as The Technician, crushed Soliman with ease. In the opening round, he bounced him off ropes with a sweeping right hand and then tagged him with a right hand on the chin to drop him to a knee. In the second round he put him away. First he knocked him down with a left hand to the head and then he was all over him when the fight resumed, eventually blasting him with a left hand to the chin to drop him in a heap. Soliman attempted to rise but fell over and referee Johnny Callas waved off the brutal mismatch at 2 minutes, 41 seconds.Ievgen Khytrov TKO9 Paul MendezMiddleweight Records: Khytrov (14-0, 12 KOs); Mendez (19-3-2, 9 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Blue-chip prospect Khytrov, 27, a native of Ukraine fighting out of Brooklyn, New York, and a 2011 world amateur champion, looked very good in an exiting performance in which he dismantled Mendez, 27, of Delano, California, with an avalanche of power shots. Mendez took an enormous amount of punishment but showed a big heart to stay on his feet until the end. They battled toe to toe for stretches but Khytrov got the better of virtually every exchange.Khytrov pounded him throughout the fight and seemed to land almost at will in the later rounds. When Khytrov cornered Mendez, who had not lost since 2011, and belted him with a series of unanswered blows in the ninth round, referee Joe Lupino called a halt to the fight upon the recommendation of the ringside doctor at 1 minute, 20 seconds.How brutal of a beating did Khytrov dish out? According to CompuBox punch statistics, he landed 53.6 punches per round, more than three times the middleweight average. He landed 40.4 power shots per round, also more than three times the division average. His 71 punches landed in the second round are second all time for middleweights. His 482 total punches landed (in only nine rounds!) is also No. 2 all time for middleweights. The record is held by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who landed a middleweight record 506 punches in a 12-round win against John Duddy.Thursday at Christchurch, New ZealandJoseph Parker KO4 Solomon HaumonoHeavyweight Records: Parker (20-0, 17 KOs); Haumono (24-3-2, 21 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Parker, 24, of New Zealand, is already the mandatory challenger for world titleholder Anthony Joshua, but he stayed busy by scoring yet another knockout, this one against Haumono, 40, a New Zealand native fighting out of Australia.Parker, fighting in the hometown of his trainer, Kevin Barry, had no issues with Haumono, whose four-fight winning streak came to a crashing halt. Parker controlled the first three rounds and was doing so again in the fourth round when he landed a clean right uppercut that sent Haumono sprawling to the canvas. He beat the count but referee Bruce McTavish elected to call off the fight at 1 minute, 35 seconds.With Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs), 26, of England, free to make an optional defense until Nov. 8 and the mandatory fight not due until Jan. 9, Parker will fight again in September in New Zealand, likely against Alexander Dimitrenko (38-2, 24 KOs), 34, of Russia. George McGinnis Jersey . -- PGA TOUR Canada member Steve Saunders took a three-stroke lead Saturday in the Web. Al Harrington Jersey . Listen to the game live on TSN Radio 1050 at 7pm et. The Raptors traded Rudy Gay, Quincy Acy and Aaron Gray to the Sacramento Kings on Monday, in exchange for Greivis Vasquez, John Salmons, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes. https://www.cheapnuggets.com/157y-david-thompson-jersey-nuggets.html . -- Josh Sterk scored once and set up two more as the Oshawa Generals edged the visiting Belleville Bulls 3-2 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. Dan Issel Jersey .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. Fat Lever Jersey . And follow TSN.ca right through Deadline Day for all the updates. From Pierre LeBrun While Anaheim GM Bob Murray said earlier this season he was not going to trade Jonas Hiller despite the fact hes an unrestricted free agent on July 1, some sources have told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun that Murray might be willing to move another goalie. David Haye threw a punch at Tony Bellew and launched an astonishing verbal attack on promoter Eddie Hearn at a news conference to publicise the fighters March 4 clash.WBC world cruiserweight champion Bellew is stepping up to heavyweight to box his fellow Briton Haye at the O2 Arena in London, and the atmosphere on Wednesday was highly charged.Amid 20 minutes of bickering, former two-weight world champion Haye called Bellew a powder puff punching chump before the pair had to be separated.Bellew branded Haye a joke and said he was only fighting him because he has blown the lot.And Hearn, who will co-promote the clash, did not escape Hayes ire either.Ive been out of the big, big fights for a while and while Ive been away Ive noticed that its become the Eddie Hearn show, Haye said at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, London.This gives me a chance to shut his mouth. You [Bellew] say I had a lot of demands, the only demand Eddie Hearn had was that his name came first on the posters.I cant remember his dad [Barry] putting his head in the camera like he does. He should be promoting his fighters not himself.After I take out this guy [Bellew] out Im going to take out Joshua and shut down your business.I could go clubbing every night between now and the fight and get smashed every night and still knock you [Bellew] out.Its an easy nights work and I will end the fight when I want. If I want to punish you I will or if I want to end it in 30 seconds I will.ddddddddddddHaye, who also claimed Australian Lucas Browne turned down $2 million (￡1.6m) to fight him, and Bellew had to be separated amid a scuffle as they posed for photographers.Bellew, 34, is taking on Haye after one defence of his world title, a third round win against Hayes friend BJ Flores.Haye, 36, has had two comfortable stoppage wins this year after over three years in exile. The Londoner reigned as WBA world heavyweight champion from 2009 to 2011 and Bellew says his best days are behind him.Lets stop calling his last two fights fights, they were more exhibitions, said Bellew.One of them called himself The Cobra but should have been called a maggot and the other is the first boxer who learned to box on YouTube. Its only right those fights were on a comedy channel.His last real fight was five years ago and while he has been partying away Ive been in the gym. The difference between him and me is that I love fighting and he hates it. But he has to fight.All the demands and stipulations he put in the contract were ridiculous. Hes the biggest diva ever in boxing.He could have been fighting for the world heavyweight title but hes not, hes fighting me because hes skint. ' ' '