Saturday round-up: Maidana stops Ortiz

Eurosport - Sun, 28 Jun 15:56:00 2009

Argentina's Marcos Maidana stopped American Victor Ortiz in the sixth round to claim the World Boxing Association interim light welterweight championship in Los Angeles.

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Maidana improved to 26-1 with his 25th victory inside the distance, flattening Ortiz three times in the first two rounds and finishing him off 46 seconds into the sixth round, dropping the US prospect to 24-2 with one drawn.

Ukraine's Andreas Kotelnik, who won a split-decision victory over Maidana last February in Germany, remains the WBA world champion in the division.

He is set to defend that crown against Britain's Amir Khan next month at Manchester.

Elsewhere, undefeated Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico retained his WBO super bantamweight title when challenger Oliver Lontchi quit after the ninth round of their scheduled 12-round contest in Atlantic City.

Lopez, who improved to 26-0, knocked the Canadian-based Lontchi down with right-hand shots in the second and ninth rounds.

Lontchi, 26, could not recover from a crunching body blow and his corner threw in the towel before the 10th.

"Lontchi was real awkward and hard to fight," Lopez, 25, said. "Once I got the body shots in, it was over."

Cameroon-born Lontchi was behind 89-80 on all three cards.

WBA super featherweight champion Jorge Linares retained his title in Mexico with an eighth round stoppage win over Josafat Perez.

Linares, won was making his first title defence, sealed the victory when the one sided bout was ended after 1:42 of the eighth round

And Arthur Abraham made a successful 10th defence of his IBF middleweight title with a 10th round stoppage win over Mahir Oral in Berlin.

Abraham knocked down Oral in the fourth, sixth and 10th rounds as the unbeaten German secured a 30th consecutive professional win.

Reuters / AFP

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  1. Murray lost his title by being a quarter of an ounce­ overweight! I agree, rules are rules and so he deserved­ to be stripped of his title. But he still went in and­ won impressively when the bout took place. Murray is­ pure granite and needs a stern test. If he KO's­ Thaxton, Khan should be next. Because I believe Thaxton­ could also KO Khan with his hammer fists. And­ that's why Warren made sure they (Thaxton against­ Khan) never met.

    From The Xentertainer, on Wed 1 Jul 5:01PM

  2. Ye good match-ups but i doubt the murray fight will­ ever happen. What has Muray done to deserve to fight­ Khan? He lost hi own british title cus he was so­ unprofesional. If Murray is t Khans level then why is­ he not going for a world title?

    From neilsenti55, on Wed 1 Jul 1:59PM

  3. With all this global warming and excessive heat,­ English cities will never be cancer free now the ozone­ layer has eroded. And what about people born in July?­ The are technically Cancerians. Get rid of them because­ of when they were born? Really, what nonsense!

    From The Xentertainer, on Wed 1 Jul 1:37PM

  4. Well done British Board of Boxing for banning Chisora­ for a while. Pity they didn't force him to fight­ Tyson Fury though because he would smash Chisora into­ next week! Can't wait for York Hall, July 16th.­ It's a great line up of top domestic fighters.­ Here's my dream list for a November Fight Night at­ the O2 Arena...

    Fury v Williams or Rogan (British or­ Commonwealth Title?)
    Murray v Khan (World Title­ maybe?)
    Froch v Kessler (Unification fight)
    Witter v­ Prescott (World title maybe?)
    Munroe v Dunne (European­ Title?)

    Any thoughts?

    From The Xentertainer, on Wed 1 Jul 9:25AM

  5. i dont think kessler can fight at the moment cus of his­ manager or summet.

    From neilsenti55, on Tue 30 Jun 3:18PM

  6. Froch would KO Pavlik and will do when they meet up.­ But it's Kessler v Froch we really want.

    From The Xentertainer, on Tue 30 Jun 8:18AM

  7. Froch would KO Pavlic and will do when they meet up.­ But it's Kessler v Froch we really want.

    From The Xentertainer, on Tue 30 Jun 8:18AM

  8. Froch v Pavlick? Pavlick was found out at lightheavy,­ but there's only a few pounds difference at­ supermiddle. Not sure of the winner, Froch has a big­ heart but he's easy to hit. Pavlick hits hard and I­ think he has better boxing skills, but it's a 50/50­ fight if it happens. I'd say Carl being the bigger­ man to prevail in a war.

    From Lance, on Mon 29 Jun 3:56PM

  9. yes thats what we need. I doubt it will happen though.­ not for at least for 4 fights. I want to see froch­ fight hopkins. i think its quite funny how so many of­ these 'great' fighters are scared of him. same­ thing with old mosley. Why is mayweather fighting a­ lightweight next when he could of took cotto, mosley,­ williams, etc?

    From neilsenti55, on Mon 29 Jun 3:09PM

  10. Come on, let's get Abraham v Froch in a­ catchweight!

    From The Xentertainer, on Mon 29 Jun 2:28PM

  11. When will Abraham fight someone decent.

    From neilsenti55, on Sun 28 Jun 8:08PM
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    Go Off sit there relegated untill 2018

    From Abba Mai Adda, on Sat 27 Jun 6:04PM

  13. pie!

    From Oliver, on Sat 27 Jun 2:50PM
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