Puerto Rico's Jose Lopez is the new WBO Junior Bantamweight titleholder. Lopez defeated Thailand's Pramuansak Posuwan by unanimous decision. I did not see the fight. Reports indicate that it was an action-packed bout inspite of the age of both fighters. This is Lopez's fifth try for a major sanctioning body world title. He is the only 115-lb titleholder not named Vic Darchinyan. Boxing Scene; Fight News; 15 Rounds
Humberto Soto of Mexico successfully retained his WBC Super Featherweight title against Antonio Davis via TKO in the 4th. Soto kept his composure all throughout the short fight inspite of Davis swarming and head-first attacks. In my opinion, Davis seem to clinch a lot and used his head, literally, more than his fists. He was repeatedly warned for it. Davis went down in the 1st and twice in the 4th. Got up until the referee stopped it with Soto clearly in control. Soto, I believe, was quite impressive and a unification against any of the other 130-lb titleholders will be very interesting. Boxing Scene; Fight News; 15 Rounds
The confusion yesterday on the Fernando Montiel-Diego Oscar Silva fight because of Fightnews.com's report seem to have cleared now. Contrary to what Fightnews reported, it was still and always have been for the interim title. The claim that it was for the full title was made by Montiel himself and Fightnews.com bit on it. I checked on quite a lot of articles on the Tijuana card and they all indicated that it was for the interim. Only Fightnews.com even up to now reported it otherwise. Boxrec.com corrected its records as well by changing it back to interim. Fightnews.com seem to always beat everyone else to the punch when it comes to breaking news but breaking news seem to be inaccurate at times as this evidently proves. By the way, Montiel is the new WBO interim bantamweight titleholder by stopping Silva in the 3rd.
As I've mentioned in my entry Friday, I wasn't committed yet on the accuracy of the report that's why I kept Penalosa in the list. Therefore, the state of the WBO Bantamweight title and the consequences from this interim fight to the Penalosa-JuanMa title bout seem to still hold true. Boxing Scene
Prediction Results:Lopez won.
Overestimated Davis' durability but Soto still won.
My running score is now up to 14-0 and 1 draw and I didn't count the interim title fight prediction. Tally changes shows Puerto Rico inching closer to Mexico and the US.
As of Mar. 29, 2009
Rank | Country | No. of Titles | Title Holders |
1st | USA | 10 |
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2nd | Mexico | 9 |
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3rd | Puerto Rico | 7 |
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4th | Ukraine | 5 |
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5th (3 are tied) | Armenia | 4 |
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5th (3 are tied) | Japan | 4 |
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5th (3 are tied) | Panama | 4 |
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8th (2 are tied) | Argentina | 3 |
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8th (2 are tied) | Philippines | 3 |
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10th (6 are tied) | Ghana | 2 |
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10th (6 are tied) | Hungary | 2 |
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10th (6 are tied) | Poland | 2 |
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10th (6 are tied) | Romania | 2 |
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10th (6 are tied) | Thailand | 2 |
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10th (6 are tied) | UK | 2 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Colombia | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Denmark | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Germany | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Indonesia | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Italy | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Nicaragua | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Russia | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | South Africa | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Uzbekistan | 1 |
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16th (10 are tied) | Venezuela | 1 |
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Puerto Rico just keeps on rackin' up belts.
ReplyDeletegood for them.
let's go Philippines!! get in on the title run!! hehe.