Saturday, June 5, 2010
COTTO IN CONTROL OF FOREMAN
Bronx, NY– Miguel Cotto,153.5 lbs, Caguas, Puerto Rico (34-2, 27 KOs) TKO 9 Yuri Foreman,154, Brooklyn, NY (28-0, 8 KOs) (WBA 154 lb. title)
Cotto, (35-2, 28 KOs) is world champion once again after simply overpowering a game Yuri (28-1, 8 KOs). Foreman fell on his own twice in the seventh round. Still a clearly impaired Foreman chose to continue. After a delay in the eighth round because an idiot in the Foreman corner threw a white towel “of surrender” in the ring, referee Arthur Mercante Jr. ordered the fight to continue until a left to Foreman’s body dropped him and prompting a stoppage at 0:42 of the ninth.
VANES NOT MUCH & GREEN AIN’T MEAN!
Vanes Martirosyan,153.75, Glendale, CA UD 10 Joe Greene,151.5, Queens, NY. Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KOs) outworks the no longer unbeaten Greene (22-1, 14 KOs) over ten mostly uneventful rounds. Martirosyan sealed the win with a knockdown of Greene in the final seconds of the fight. Scoring was 96-93 twice and 98-91.
Friday, June 4, 2010
ESPN HAS FRIDAY FARE
Miami, FL– Yudel Jhonson, 151.25, Miami, FL TKO 8 Juliano Ramos, 151.25, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jhonson, (7-0, 5 KOs) dishes out punishment for eight dominating rounds to Ramos, (16-4, 13 KOs). The one-sided fight was stopped by referee Telis Assimenios at 2:39 of round eight.
Edwin Ayala