As we speak, boxing world title fights happen across the globe and are extra accessible to observe than ever earlier than. Generally, championship bouts don’t obtain as a lot consideration and go underreported. Huge Struggle Weekend commits to writing about boxing information, previews, and recaps. As such, the positioning now has a recurring section on championship bouts from world wide from the previous week.
The main target of those items can be on clashes starting from atomweight to heavyweight that had the WBA, WBC, IBF, and/or WBO titles on the road. This week’s version of “Title Fights From Across the World” consists of 4 recaps. Learn on to see how these fights went.
Pedro Taduran retains championship in dominant vogue
Pedro Taduran (20-4-1, 14 KOs) scored 4 knockdowns in his seventh spherical knockout victory over Gustavo Álvarez (16-2, 5 KOs, 1 NC).
The official time of stoppage was 1:34. Taduran stays the IBF minimumweight world champion with the win. He received the title in 2024 in opposition to Ginjiro Shigeoka. This was his third time defending it.
The bout headlined an April 3 Manny Pacquiao Promotions card on the Pechanga Resort On line casino in Temecula, CA. Boxing followers in Latin America may catch the motion reside on ESPN KnockOut.
A straight left to the physique triggered Álvarez to squat however not go down totally with over a minute to go in spherical 4. Taduran took benefit of the scenario and landed two left uppercuts that dropped his opponent. Álvarez received up, however was quickly knocked down once more from a barrage of punches to the pinnacle and physique. Taduran scored a 3rd knockdown with a one-two to the pinnacle on the finish of spherical six. A straight left to the physique dropped Álvarez as soon as extra within the seventh. Referee Thomas Taylor put an finish to proceedings following the knockdown.
Lauren Value outclasses Stephanie Piñeiro
Lauren Value (10-0, 2 KOs) as soon as once more confirmed her class with a unanimous resolution win in opposition to Stephanie Piñeiro (10-1, 3 KOs).
Scores have been 99-91 and 98-92 (x2). Value stays the WBA, WBC, and IBF welterweight world champion with the victory. She first turned a world champion in 2024 in opposition to Jessica McCaskill by profitable the WBA strap and has now made three defences of it. Value unified titles final 12 months in her victory in opposition to Natasha Jonas.
Value-Piñeiro headlined an April 4 BOXXER card on the Utilita Area in Cardiff, Wales. Boxing followers in the UK may catch the motion reside on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. These in the US (together with Puerto Rico) have been ready to take action with Triller TV.
Regardless of profitable unanimously on the scorecards, Value was made to work so as to get the victory. She moved across the ring, darting out and in to land her pictures. A proper hook upstairs buckled the legs of Piñeiro in the direction of the tip of spherical three, however the reigning champion didn’t make the most of this.
Value was lower on the lip within the fifth following a conflict of heads. She was lower as soon as once more in spherical seven by her proper eye, additional bloodying her high and trunks. Regardless of this, Value’s punch output was better and he or she was the extra correct of the 2. Piñeiro’s come ahead strategy gave her success, but it surely was finally not sufficient to win rounds and get the victory.
René Santiago triumphs in aggressive affair
René Santiago (16-4, 9 KOs) as soon as once more hit the street, this time defeating Masataka Taniguchi (21-6, 15 KOs) through unanimous resolution.
Scores have been 117-110, 116-111, and 114-113. Santiago stays the WBA and WBO gentle flyweight world champion with the victory. He received the WBO title final 12 months with a win in opposition to Shokichi Iwata and has now made two defences of it. Santiago additional unified final 12 months by beating Kyosuke Takami.
Santiago-Taniguchi headlined an April 3 Treasure Boxing Promotion card on the Korakuen Corridor in Tokyo, Japan. Boxing followers in Japan may catch the motion reside on U-Subsequent. These in Latin America have been ready to take action with ESPN KnockOut.
Santiago utilized the whole lot of the ring, guaranteeing that each males have been principally at an arm’s size away from one another. Each fighters threw a number of of their punches from that distance. There was loads of tit-for-tat in every spherical. A serious second within the contest occurred with over two minutes to go within the fifth when Santiago dropped his opponent with a proper hook to the pinnacle. Taniguchi had missed on a proper uppercut thrown wildly and received knocked down with a counter in consequence. Regardless of this, he didn’t look like damage by the shot and received up pretty shortly.
Taniguchi continued to press ahead so as to get nearer and land his punches. Santiago’s motion off of the again foot allowed him to keep away from getting hit with something notably damaging. It was at all times a detailed affair between the 2, however the Puerto Rican appeared to do exactly sufficient to get his hand raised. The knockdown in spherical 5 most definitely helped ultimately.
Sumire Yamanaka turns into a world champion as soon as once more
Sumire Yamanaka (10-1, 3 KOs) is as soon as once more a world champion due to a break up resolution win in opposition to Nao Ugawa (6-1, 0 KOs).
Though one decide had the motion 96-94 for Ugawa, the opposite two noticed it 97-93 and 96-94 for her opponent. Yamanaka wins the vacant IBF atomweight world title in consequence. This can be her second reign, having beforehand held the identical belt due to a victory over Mika Iwakawa in 2024. Yamanaka then misplaced the title to Tina Rupprecht, whose eventual retirement from boxing resulted within the title changing into vacant.
Yamanaka-Ugawa headlined an April 7 Shinsei Promotions card on the Korakuen Corridor in Tokyo, Japan. Boxing followers in Japan may catch the motion reside on Lemino.
Huge Struggle Weekend was unable to entry footage for this battle. As such, we’ll present a recap of the motion at a later time.
