Leo Santa Cruz WINS and Abner Mares DRAWS?

Santa Cruz defeats Mares in “Battle of LA” By Rocky Morales at ringside Photos: Suzanne Teresa / Premier Boxing Champions Leo Santa Cruz (31-0-1) turned in a career best performance in winning the vacant WBA “super” featherweight championship and WBC “diamond” featherweight championship over Abner Mares (29-2-1, 15KO) by majority decision victory on Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Santa Cruz was able to box very effectively from the outside while Mares was not as effective while trying to maul Santa Cruz on the inside. Mares bled from over his right eye from a possible headbutt and both fighters were swollen badly by the championship rounds. Mares never stopped coming forward and throwing punches in bunches but it was Santa Cruz who displayed the better ring generalship and who landed the more effective punches. In an epic twelfth round that brought the 13,000+ fans in attendance to a frenzy. Santa Cruz and Mares traded heavy shots until the final bell with neither willing to take a backwards step. By scores of 117-111, 114-114 (?!) and 117-111, Santa Cruz is the majority decision winner. Undercard Results from Staples Center By Rocky Morales at ringside Photo: Suzanne Teresa / Premier Boxing Champions WBC rated #3 contender, Julio Cesar Ceja (29-1, 26KO), got up off the canvas and scored a spectacular come from behind fifth round knockout victory over WBC rated #1 contender, Hugo Ruiz (35-3, 30KO). Ruiz floored Ceja in the third round with a left hook counter and had started to take control of the bout but then may have gotten too comfortable and was late in trading hooks with the heavy handed Ceja. The result was Ruiz getting dropped hard, getting up on unsteady legs and Ceja taking full advantage and never letting up until the referee stopped the bout at 2:34 of the fifth round. With the victory, Ceja wins the interim WBC super bantamweight championship. Should the regular champion, Leo Santa Cruz elect to stay at featherweight, Ceja would be promoted from interim to regular champion. Should Santa Cruz elect to return to super bantamweight, Ceja would become the mandatory challenger to Santa Cruz. In the televised swing bout, Alejandro Luna (19-0, 14KO) kept his record perfect with a dominant fourth round knockout victory over Sergio Lopez (18-10-1, 12KO) in a scheduled eight round lightweight bout. Although there were no knockdowns, Lopez was getting hammered and the timing of the stoppage was most appropriate. At 0:34 of the fourth round, the referee stops the bout with Luna taking a barrage of punches in a neutral corner. Alfredo “El Perro” Angulo (24-5, 19KO) delighted the fans in attendance with a five round beat down of one time contender, but loser of four of his last five bouts, Hector Munoz (22-16-1, 14KO). What Angulo lacked in speed, he more than compensated for with precise timing and power. Munoz suffered a bad cut in the fourth round from an accidental headbutt and that helped expedite the end. From an accumulation of power punches, Munoz went down late in the fifth round, got up but then retired on his stool and did not come out for the sixth round and nobody come blame him after the assault he endured from Angulo. Mosley KOs Mayorga in six Thats all! NEWS OF THE WEEK * FUTURE FIGHTS — The Nevada commission has approved dates for five fight cards in September. Leading the way is the Sept. 12 show at the MGM Grand, where Floyd Mayweather Jr. will fight Andre Berto on Showtime pay per view. On Sept. 11, Top Rank will host a card at The Cosmopolitan that will be televised by TruTV. -On Sept. 29, Mayweather Promotions will host a Premier Boxing Champions card at the Palms that will be televised on Fox Sports 1. -DIEGO TITLE SHOT — It took 2½ years, but Diego Magdaleno again will get the opportunity to fight for a world title, this time at lightweight. The 28-year-old Las Vegan will face World Boxing Organization champion Terry Flanagan on Oct. 10 in Manchester, England. Magdaleno (28-1, 12 KOs) is coming off a seventh-round technical knockout of Jose Gonzalez on June 26. "I get another chance to realize my dream," Magdaleno said. "It's a great opportunity for me, and I'm going to take full advantage of it." Magdaleno's previous chance to become a world champion came in April 2013, when he lost a 12-round split decision to Rocky Martinez for the WBO super featherweight belt in Macau. The challenge for Magdaleno will be traveling a quarter of the way around the world and beating Flanagan (28-0, 11 KOs) in his hometown. Flanagan will be making his first title defense after winning the belt July 11 against Jose Zepeda, who dislocated his left shoulder in the second round and could not continue. * COSMO CARD — Two-time Mexican Olympian Oscar Valdez (17-0, 14 KOs) will fight Chris Avalos (26-3, 19 KOs) in the 10-round featherweight main event of a Top Rank card Sept. 11 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. In the 10-round co-feature, Jesse Hart (17-0, 14 KOs) will meet Aaron Pryor Jr. (19-8-1, 12 KOs) for Hart's North American Boxing Organization and United States Boxing Association super middleweight titles. The card will be televised on truTV. Fonfara vs. Cleverly is official In a clash of top light heavyweight contenders, Polish hero Andrzej Fonfara (27-3, 16 KOs) and former world champion Nathan Cleverly (29-2, 15 KOs) will meet in a 12-round clash on Spike TV at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago on Friday, October 16. Fonfara will be fighting at UIC Pavilion for the 14th time in his career and is fresh off a stunning performance against former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in April of this year. He now takes another tough fight against Cleverly. “I’m excited to return to my hometown of Chicago on this big fight night against a world class fighter like Nathan Cleverly,” said Fonfara. “This will be a tough fight for both of us. Cleverly is a solid fighter and it’s no fluke that he was a world champion and that he defended his belt so many times. Our fighting styles guarantee that everyone can expect fireworks on October 16th. I want this fight to be a quick stop on my way to a rematch with Adonis Stevenson.” Cleverly stated, “This is a major platform for me to prove that I am more than capable of becoming world champion again. If I beat Fonfara it’s a doorway fight to the world title and establishing myself as one of the best light heavyweights once again. Fonfara is a good fighter. He’s tall, has power and has moved up through the levels in his career. I am looking forward to coming over to Chicago and I am very confident that our styles will blend well for a really exciting fight.” Zab Judah returns September 10 On Thursday, September 10, promoter Greg Cohen of Greg Cohen Promotions and Super Judah Promotions, in association with GH3 Promotions and David Schuster’s Winner Take All Productions, will continue GCP’s “Championship Boxing” series with a world-class event, once again at The Space at Westbury in Westbury, New York. In the night’s 10-round super lightweight main event, five-time world champion and former Undisputed World Welterweight Champion Zab “Super” Judah (42-9, 29 KOs) of Brooklyn, New York, will face Florida, via Barranquilla, Colombia’s Hevinson Herrera (18-11-1, 12 KOs). This will be Judah’s first fight under his new GCP co-promotional banner. In the co-main event, women’s multiple-time world champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano (24-1, 18 KOs) of Brooklyn will face South Carolina’s Angel Gladney (8-11, 6 KOs) in a lightweight six-rounder. Rod Stewart will perform at Klitschko vs Furry http://www.boxingscene.com/wladimir-klitschko-tyson-fury-rod-stewart-perform--95254 Don King Refusing to Sign off for Stervine to face Ortiz http://www.boxingscene.com/stiverne-ortiz-unlikely-don-king-refuses-sign-off--95197 Lara Returns Nov. 13 in Miami as headliner for PBC card http://www.boxingscene.com/erislandy-lara-return-on-november-13-miami--95158 De La Hoya Promoting Canelo vs Cotto "This fight will be bigger then May vs Pac" "This Fight will be bigger then DLH vs Trinidad" " I know Cottos weakness, Ill tell Canelo"