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Our rankings are from the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (www.tbrb.org), in support of the most authoritative rankings in the world today.  These are the rankings as of April 12th, 2016.

Pound x pound

Rank Name Nationality Record Division
1 Roman Gonzalez * NIC 44-0-0 (38) Flyweight
2 Manny Pacquiao PHI 57-6-2 (38) Welterweight
3 Sergey Kovalev RUS 29-0-1 (26) Light Heavyweight
4 Juan Francisco Estrada MEX 33-2-0 (24) Flyweight
5 Gennady Golovkin KAZ 34-0-0 (31) Middleweight
6 Andre Ward USA 29-0-0 (15) Light Heavyweight
7 Timothy Bradley USA 33-2-1 (13) Welterweight
8 Terence Crawford USA 27-0-0 (19) Jr. Welterweight
9 Guillermo Rigondeaux CUB 16-0-0 (10) Jr. Featherweight
10 Naoya Inoue JPN 9-0-0 (8) Jr. Bantamweight

 * Champions as recognised by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.

Heavyweight

Rank
Name
Record – W-L-D (KO)
Nationality
Last Week
TBRB Champion  Tyson Fury 25-0-0 (18) ENG C
1 Wladimir Klitschko 64-4-0 (53) UKR 1
2 Alexander Povetkin 30-1-0 (22) RUS 2
3 Luis Ortiz 24-0-0 (21) CUB 3
4 Deontay Wilder 36-0-0 (35) USA 4
5 Anthony Joshua 16-0-0 (16) ENG 8
6 Kubrat Pulev 22-1-0 (12) BUL 5
7 Bermane Stiverne 24-2-1 (21) CAN 6
8 Carlos Takam 31-2-1 (24) CMR 7
9 Lucas Browne 24-0-0 (21) AUS 10
10 Joseph Parker 18-0-0 (16) NZ

 

Cruiserweight (200lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Krzysztof Glowacki 25-0-0 (16) POL 1
2 Denis Lebedev 28-2-0 (21) RUS 2
3 Marco Huck 39-3-1 (27) GER 3
4 Grigory Drozd 40-1-0 (28) RUS 4
5 Victor Emilio Ramirez 22-2-1 (17) ARG 5
6 Ovill McKenzie 25-12-1 (13) JAM 6
7 Ilunga Makabu 19-1-0 (18) COD 7
8 Krzysztof Wlodarczyk 50-3-1 (36) POL 8
9 Olanrewaju Durodola 22-2-0 (20) NGA 9
10 Youri Kalenga 22-2-0 (15) COD 10

 

Light Heavyweight (175lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion Adonis Stevenson 27-1-0 (22) CAN ***
1 Sergey Kovalev 28-0-1 (25) RUS 1
2 Andrzej Fonfara 28-3-0 (16) POL 2
3 Juergen Braehmer 47-2-0 (35) GER 3
4 Andre Ward 29-0-0 (15) USA 4
5 Vyacheslav Shabranskyy 15-0-0 (12) UKR 5
6 Artur Beterbiev 9-0-0 (9) RUS 6
7 Eleider Alvarez 19-0-0 (10) COL 7
8 Jean Pascal 30-4-1 (17) CAN 8
9 Yunieski Gonzalez 16-2-0 (12) CUB 9
10 Isaac Chilemba 24-3-2 (10) RSA 10

 

Super Middleweight (168lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion       ***
1 James DeGale 22-1-0 (14) ENG 2
2 Gilberto Ramirez Sanchez 33-0-0 (24) MEX 7
3 Badou Jack 20-1-1 (12) SWE 3
4 George Groves 21-3-0 (16) ENG 4
5 Anthony Dirrell 28-1-1 (22) USA 5
6 Arthur Abraham 44-5-0 (29) GER 1
7 Fedor Chudinov 14-0-0 (10) RUS 6
8 Lucian Bute 32-3-0 (25) CAN 8
9 Callum Smith 18-0-0 (13) ENG 9
10 Martin Murray 32-3-1 (15) ENG 10

 

Middleweight (160lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion Saul Alvarez 46-1-1 (32) MEX ***
1 Gennady Golovkin 34-0-0 (31) KAZ 1
2 Daniel Jacobs 31-1-0 (28) USA 2
3 Billy Joe Saunders 23-0-0 (12) ENG 3
4 Miguel Cotto 40-5-0 (33) PR 4
5 Andy Lee 34-3-1 (24) IRE 5
6 David Lemieux 34-3-0 (31) CAN 6
7 Peter Quillin 32-1-1 (23) USA 7
8 Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam 31-2-0 (18) CMR 8
9 Daniel Geale 31-4-0 (16) AUS 9
10 Avtandil Khurtsidze 32-2-2 (21) GEO 10

 

Junior Middleweight (154lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
 TBRB Champion  OPEN  –  –  –
1 Erislandy Lara 21-2-2 (12) CUB 1
2 Austin Trout 30-2-0 (17) USA 2
3 Jermall Charlo 22-0-0 (17) USA 3
4 Jermell Charlo 26-0-0 (11) USA 4
5 Demetrius Andrade 22-0-0 (15) USA 5
6 Vanes Martirosyan 36-2-1 (21) USA 7
7 Julian Williams 21-0-1 (13) USA 8
8 Michel Soro 27-1-1 (17) FRA 9
9 Willie Nelson 24-2-1 (14) USA 10
10 Liam Smith 22-0-1 (12) ENG

 

Welterweight (147lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion Manny Pacquiao 58-6-2 (38) PHI 1
1 Kell Brook 36-0-0 (24) ENG 3
2 Timothy Bradley 33-1-1 (13) USA 2
3 Amir Khan 31-3-0 (19) ENG 4
4 Keith Thurman 26-0-0 (22) USA 5
5 Shawn Porter 26-1-1 (16) USA 6
6 Danny Garcia 32-0-0 (18) USA 7
7 Jessie Vargas 27-1-0 (10) USA 8
8 Sammy Vasquez 21-0-0 (15) USA 9
9 Errol Spence Jr. 19-0-0 (16) USA 10
10 Dmitry Mikhaylendo 21-0-0 (9) RUS

 

Junior Welterweight (140lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Viktor Postol 28-0-0 (12) UKR 1
2 Terence Crawford 27-0-0 (19) USA 2
3 Lucas Matthysse 37-4-0 (34) ARG 3
4 Jose Benavidez 23-0-0 (16) USA 4
5 Mauricio Herrera 22-5-0 (7) USA 5
6 Ruslan Provodnikov 25-4-0 (18) RUS 6
7 Adrien Broner 31-2-0 (22) USA 7
8 Eduard Troyanovsky 24-0-0 (21) RUS 9
9 Antonio Orozco 24-0-0 (16) USA 8
10 Adrian Granados 17-4-2 (12) USA 10

 

Lightweight (135lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Dejan Zlaticanin 21-0-0 (14) MNE 1
2 Jorge Linares 40-3-0 (27) VEN 2
3 Terry Flanagan 29-0-0 (12) ENG 3
4 Rances Barthelemy 24-0-0 (13) CUB 4
5 Robert Easter Jr. 17-0-0 (14) USA
6 Mickey Bey 22-1-1 (14) USA 5
7 Miguel Vazquez 35-5-0 (13) MEX 7
8 Ismael Barroso 19-0-2 (18) VEZ 8
9 Yuriorkis Gamboa 25-1-0 (17) CUB 9
10 Algenis Mendez 23-4-1 (12) DR 6

 

Junior Lightweight (130lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Takashi Uchiyama 23-0-1 (19) JAP 1
2 Francisco Vargas 23-0-1 (17) MEX 2
3 Takashi Miura 29-2-2 (22) JAP 3
4 Javier Fortuna 29-0-1 (21) DR 4
5 Roman Martinez 29-2-3 (17) PR 5
6 Orlando Salido 42-13-3 (29) MEX 6
7 Jose Pedraza 21-0-0 (12) PR 7
8 Edner Cherry 34-7-2 (19) BAH 8
9 Nicholas Walters 26-0-1 (21) JAM 9
10 Miguel Roman 55-11-0 (42) CRC 10

 

Featherweight (126lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Simpiwe Vetyeka 28-3-0 (17) RSA 1
2 Vasyl Lomachenko 5-1-0 (3) UKR 2
3 Lee Selby 22-1-0 (8) WLS 3
4 Gary Russell, Jr. 26-1-0 (15) USA 4
5 Leo Santa Cruz 31-0-1 (17) USA 5
6 Abner Mares 29-2-1 (15) MEX 6
7 Oscar Valdez 19-0-0 (17) MEX
8 Jesus Marcelo Andres Cuellar 28-1-0 (21) ARG 7
9 Oscar Escandon 25-2-0 (17) COL 9
10 Joseph Diaz Jr. 20-0-0 (11) USA 10

 

Junior Featherweight (122lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion Guillermo Rigondeaux 16-0-0 (10) CUB ***
1 Carl Frampton 21-0-0 (14) NIR 1
2 Nonito Donaire 36-3-0 (23) ENG 3
3 Scott Quigg 31-1-2 (23) PHI 2
4 Shingo Wake 19-4-2 (11) JPN 4
5 Albert Pagara 25-0-0 (18) PHI 5
6 Hugo Ruiz 36-3-0 (22) MEX 6
7 Genesis Servania 26-0-0 (11) PHI 7
8 Rey Vargas 25-0-0 (20) MEX 8
9 Julio Ceja 30-2-0 (27) MEX 9
10 Moises Flores 24-0-0 (17) MEX 10

 

Bantamweight (118lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Shinsuke Yamanaka 24-0-2 (17) JPN 1
2 Juan Carlos Payano 17-0-0 (8) DR 2
3 Anselmo Moreno 35-4-1 (12) PAN 3
4 Jamie McDonnell 27-2-1 (12) ENG 4
5 Tomoki Kameda 31-2-0 (19) JPN 5
6 Zhanat Zhakiyanov 26-1-0 (18) KAZ 6
7 Rau'shee Warren 13-1-0 (4) USA 7
8 Pungluang Sor Singyu 52-3-0 (35) THA 9
9 Tepparith Kokietgym 32-3-0 (19) THA 8
10 Lee Haskins 32-3-0 (14) ENG 10

 

Junior Bantamweight (115lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Naoya Inoue 8-0-0 (7) JPN 1
2 Carlos Cuadras 34-0-1 (26) MEX 2
3 Zolani Tete 21-3-0 (18) RSA 3
4 Omar Narvaez 44-2-2 (23) ARG 4
5 Srisaket Sor Rungvisai 36-4-1 (33) THA 5
6 Kohei Kono 31-8-1 (13) JPN 6
7 McJoe Arroyo 17-0-0 (8) PR 7
8 Luis Concepcion 34-4-0 (24) PAN 8
9 Arhur Villanueva 28-1-0 (14) PHI 9
10 Norberto Jimenez 23-8-4 (12) DR 10

 

Flyweight (112lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion Roman Gonzalez 44-0-0 (38) NIC ***
1 Juan Francisco Estrada 33-2-0 (24) MEX 1
2 Amnat Ruenroeng 17-0-0 (5) THA 2
3 Kazuto Ioka 18-1-0 (10) JPN 3
4 Brian Viloria 36-5-0 (22) USA 4
5 Moruti Mthalane 32-2-0 (21) RSA 6
6 Juan Carlos Reveco 36-3-0 (19) ARG 5
7 Edgar Sosa 51-9-0 (30) MEX 7
8 McWilliams Arroyo 16-2-0 (14) PR 8
9 Johnriel Casimero 21-3-0 (13) PHI 9
10 Yodmongkol Vor Saengthep 37-3-0 (23) THA 10

 

Junior Flyweight (108lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Donnie Nietes 37-1-4 (21) PHI 1
2 Ryochi Taguchi 23-2-1 (10) JPN 2
3 Pedro Guevara 27-2-1 (17) MEX 3
4 Ganigan Lopez 27-6-0 (17) MEX 4
5 Akira Yaegashi 23-5-1 (12) JPN 6
6 Javier Mendoza 24-3-1 (19) MEX 7
7 Rey Loreto 21-13-0 (13) PHI 8
8 Moises Fuentes 23-2-1 (12) MEX 9
9 Jonathan Taconing 22-2-1 (18) PHI 10
10 Jesse Espinas 13-0 (9) PHI

 

Strawweight (105lbs)

Rank Name Record – W-L-D (KO) Nationality Last Week
TBRB Champion OPEN
1 Wanheng Menayothin 41-0-0 (16) RSA 1
2 Byron Rojas 17-2-3 (8) NIC 2
3 Hekkie Budler 29-2-0 (9) RSA 3
4 Knockout CP Freshmart 12-0-0 (6) THA 4
5 Jose Arumedo 16-3-1 (9) MEX 5
6 Katsunari Takayama 30-8-0 (12) JPN 6
7 Kosei Tanaka 6-0-0 (2) JPN 7
8 Xiong Zhao Zhong 26-6-1 (14) CHN 8
9 Carlos Buitrago 28-2-1 (16) NIC 9
10 Saul Juarez 23-4-1 (12) MEX 10
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The Boxing Writers Association of America has announced the winners of its annual Bernie Awards competition. The awards, named in honor of former five-time BWAA president and frequent TSS contributor Bernard Fernandez, recognize outstanding writing in six categories as represented by stories published the previous year.

Over the years, this venerable website has produced a host of Bernie Award winners. In 2024, Thomas Hauser kept the tradition alive. A story by Hauser that appeared in these pages finished first in the category “Boxing News Story.” Titled “Ryan Garcia and the New York State Athletic Commission,” the story was published on June 23. You can read it HERE.

Hauser also finished first in the category of “Investigative Reporting” for “The Death of Ardi Ndembo,” a story that ran in the (London) Guardian.  (Note: Hauser has owned this category. This is his 11th first place finish for “Investigative Reporting”.)

Thomas Hauser, who entered the International Boxing Hall of Fame with the class of 2019, was honored at last year’s BWAA awards dinner with the A.J. Leibling Award for Outstanding Boxing Writing. The list of previous winners includes such noted authors as W.C. Heinz, Budd Schulberg, Pete Hamill, and George Plimpton, to name just a few.

The Leibling Award is now issued intermittently. The most recent honorees prior to Hauser were Joyce Carol Oates (2015) and Randy Roberts (2019).

Roberts, a Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University, was tabbed to write the Hauser/Leibling Award story for the glossy magazine for BWAA members published in conjunction with the organization’s annual banquet. Regarding Hauser’s most well-known book, his Muhammad Ali biography, Roberts wrote, “It is nearly impossible to overestimate the importance of the book to our understanding of Ali and his times.” An earlier book by Hauser, “The Black Lights: Inside the World of Professional Boxing,” garnered this accolade: “Anyone who wants to understand boxing today should begin by reading ‘The Black Lights’.”

A panel of six judges determined the Bernie Award winners for stories published in 2024. The stories they evaluated were stripped of their bylines and other identifying marks including the publication or website for which the story was written.

Other winners:

Boxing Event Coverage: Tris Dixon

Boxing Column: Kieran Mulvaney

Boxing Feature (Over 1,500 Words): Lance Pugmire

Boxing Feature (Under 1,500 Words): Chris Mannix

The Dixon, Mulvaney, and Pugmire stories appeared in Boxing Scene; the Mannix story in Sports Illustrated.

The Bernie Award recipients will be honored at the forthcoming BWAA dinner on April 30 at the Edison Ballroom in the heart of Times Square. (For more information, visit the BWAA website). Two days after the dinner, an historic boxing tripleheader will be held in Times Square, the logistics of which should be quite interesting. Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, and Teofimo Lopez share top billing.

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Mekhrubon Sanginov, whose Heroism Nearly Proved Fatal, Returns on Saturday

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To say that Mekhrubon Sanginov is excited to resume his boxing career would be a great understatement. Sanginov, ranked #9 by the WBA at 154 pounds before his hiatus, last fought on July 8, 2022.

He was in great form before his extended leave, having scored four straight fast knockouts, advancing his record to 13-0-1. Had he remained in Las Vegas, where he had settled after his fifth pro fight, his career may have continued on an upward trajectory, but a trip to his hometown of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, turned everything haywire. A run-in with a knife-wielding bully nearly cost him his life, stalling his career for nearly three full years.

Sanginov was exiting a restaurant in Dushanbe when he saw a man, plainly intoxicated, harassing another man, an innocent bystander. Mekhrubon intervened and was stabbed several times with a long knife. One of the puncture wounds came perilously close to puncturing his heart.

“After he stabbed me, I ran after him and hit him and caught him to hold for the police,” recollects Sanginov. “There was a lot of confusion when the police arrived. At first, the police were not certain what had happened.

“By the time I got to the hospital, I had lost two liters of blood, or so I was told. After I was patched up, one of the surgeons said to me, ‘Give thanks to God because he gave you a second life.’ It is like I was born a second time.”

“I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It could have happened in any city,” he adds. (A story about the incident on another boxing site elicited this comment from a reader: “Good man right there. World would be a better place if more folk were willing to step up when it counts.”)

Sanginov first laced on a pair of gloves at age 10 and was purportedly 105-14 as an amateur. Growing up, the boxer he most admired was Roberto Duran. “Muhammad Ali will always be the greatest and [Marvin] Hagler was great too, but Duran was always my favorite,” he says.

During his absence from the ring, Sanginov married a girl from Tajikistan and became a father. His son Makhmud was born in Las Vegas and has dual citizenship. “Ideally,” he says, “I would like to have three more children. Two more boys and the last one a daughter.”

He also put on a great deal of weight. When he returned to the gym, his trainer Bones Adams was looking at a cruiserweight. But gradually the weight came off – “I had to give up one of my hobbies; I love to eat,” he says – and he will be resuming his career at 154. “Although I am the same weight as before, I feel stronger now. Before I was more of a boy, now I am a full-grown man,” says Sanginov who turned 29 in February.

He has a lot of rust to shed. Because of all those early knockouts, he has answered the bell for only eight rounds in the last four years. Concordantly, his comeback fight on Saturday could be described as a soft re-awakening. Sanginov’s opponent Mahonri Montes, an 18-year pro from Mexico, has a decent record (36-10-2, 25 KOs) but has been relatively inactive and is only 1-3-1 in his last five. Their match at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California, is slated for eight rounds.

On May 10, Ardreal Holmes (17-0) faces Erickson Lubin (26-2) on a ProBox card in Kissimmee, Florida. It’s an IBF super welterweight title eliminator, meaning that the winner (in theory) will proceed directly to a world title fight.

Sanginov will be watching closely. He and Holmes were scheduled to meet in March of 2022 in the main event of a ShoBox card on Showtime. That match fell out when Sanginov suffered an ankle injury in sparring.

If not for a twist of fate, that may have been Mekhrubon Sanginov in that IBF eliminator, rather than Ardreal Holmes. We will never know, but one thing we do know is that Mekhrubon’s world title aspirations were too strong to be ruined by a knife-wielding bully.

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In the showdown between undefeated welterweight champions Jaron “Boots Ennis walked away with the victory by technical knockout over Eamantis Stanionis and the WBA and IBF titles on Saturday.

No doubt. Ennis was the superior fighter.

“He’s a great fighter. He’s a good guy,” said Ennis.

Philadelphia’s Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs) faced Lithuania’s Stanionis (15-1, 10 KOs) at demonstrated an overpowering southpaw and orthodox attack in front of a sold-out crowd at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

It might have been confusing but whether he was in a southpaw stance or not Ennis busted the body with power shots and jabbed away in a withering pace in the first two rounds.

Stanionis looked surprised when his counter shots seemed impotent.

In the third round the Lithuanian fighter who trains at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, began using a rocket jab to gain some semblance of control. Then he launched lead rights to the jaw of Ennis. Though Stanionis connected solidly, the Philly fighter was still standing and seemingly unfazed by the blows.

That was a bad sign for Stanionis.

Ennis returned to his lightning jabs and blows to the body and Stanionis continued his marauding style like a Sherman Tank looking to eventually run over his foe. He just couldn’t muster enough firepower.

In the fifth round Stanionis opened up with a powerful body attack and seemed to have Ennis in retreat. But the Philadelphia fighter opened up with a speedy combination that ended with blood dripping from the nose of Stanionis.

It was not looking optimistic for the Lithuanian fighter who had never lost.

Stanionis opened up the sixth round with a three-punch combination and Ennis met him with a combination of his own. Stanionis was suddenly in retreat and Ennis chased him like a leopard pouncing on prey. A lightning five-punch combination that included four consecutive uppercuts delivered Stanionis to the floor for the count. He got up and survived the rest of the round.

After returning shakily to his corner, the trainer whispered to him and then told the referee that they had surrendered.

Ennis jumped in happiness and now holds the WBA and IBF welterweight titles.

“I felt like I was getting in my groove. I had a dream I got a stoppage just like this,” said Ennis.

Stanionis looked like he could continue, but perhaps it was a wise move by his trainer. The Lithuanian fighter’s wife is expecting their first child at any moment.

Meanwhile, Ennis finally proved the expectations of greatness by experts. It was a thorough display of superiority over a very good champion.

“The biggest part was being myself and having a live body in front of me,” said Ennis. “I’m just getting started.”

Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn was jubilant over the performance of the Philadelphia fighter.

“What a wonderful humble man. This is one of the finest fighters today. By far the best fighter in the division,” said Hearn. “You are witnessing true greatness.”

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Former featherweight world champion Raymond Ford (17-1-1, 8 KOs) showed that moving up in weight would not be a problem even against the rugged and taller Thomas Mattice (22-5-1, 17 KOs) in winning by a convincing unanimous decision.

The quicksilver southpaw Ford ravaged Mattice in the first round then basically cruised the remaining nine rounds like a jackhammer set on automatic. Four-punch combinations pummeled Mattice but never put him down.

“He was a smart veteran. He could take a hit,” said Ford.

Still, there was no doubt on who won the super featherweight contest. After 10 rounds all three judges gave Ford every round and scored it 100-90 for the New Jersey fighter who formerly held the WBA featherweight title which was wrested from him by Nick Ball.

Shakhram Giyasov (17-0, 10 KOs) made good on a promise to his departed daughter by knocking out Argentina’s Franco Ocampo (17-3, 8 KOs) in their welterweight battle.

Giyasov floored Ocampo in the first round with an overhand right but the Argentine fighter was able to recover and fight on for several more rounds.

In the fourth frame, Giyasov launched a lead right to the liver and collapsed Ocampo with the body shot for the count of 10 at 1:57 of the fourth round.

“I had a very hard camp because I lost my daughter,” Giyasov explained. “I promised I would be world champion.”

In his second pro fight Omari Jones (2-0) needed only seconds to disable William Jackson (13-6-2) with a counter right to the body for a knockout win. The former Olympic medalist was looking for rounds but reacted to his opponent’s actions.

“He was a veteran he came out strong,” said Jones who won a bronze medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics. “But I just stayed tight and I looked for the shot and I landed it.”

After a feint, Jackson attacked and was countered by a right to the rib cage and down he went for the count at 1:40 of the first round in the welterweight contest.

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