Boxing Challenge: Davis dominates Albright in rematch

  Nahir Albright got his rematch against Keyshawn Davis in Norfolk, Virginia, but while the ending was the same, the fight was far more one-sided as Davis won an easy unanimous decision.

Davis won by scores of 118-110 on two cards and 117-109 on the third, and despite missing weight, showed the talent to make plenty of waves in the welterweight division.

Davis won every round, but lost two points for a bodyslam in round six.

In the co-feature, former WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman knocked out Josh Wagner in two rounds in Norman's first appearance since losing his title to Devin Haney.

Norman knocked Wagner down twice in the second round on the way to the victory.

In Doncaster, England, Filip Hrgovic stopped Dave Allen in three rounds in a showcase match that could see Hrgovic become the next opponent for highly touted Moses Itauma.

And in Germany, Paddy Donovan won a majority decision over Karen Chukhadzian to win an IBF welterweight eliminator and become the mandatory challenger for the winner of next month's IBF title match between Lewis Crocker and Liam Paro.

Official scores of 115-111, 114-112, and 113-113.

I have yet to watch this fight to score.

Boxing Challenge

TRS: 51 Pts (6)

Ramon Malpica: 44 Pts (2)

Vince Samano:  36 Pts (6)

Boxing Challenge: Boots knocks out Lima

    It was an expected squash match in Philadelphia, and at least it ended quickly as Jaron "Boots' Ennis made a successful entry into the junior middleweight division with a first-round stoppage of Ulsma Lima.

Two knockdowns preceded Ennis's pounding of Lima along the ropes to force the ending. 

With this fight in the past, Ennis can now face a sterner challenge in fellow unbeaten Vergil Ortiz in a fight that has been talked about for years, should Ortiz win next month against Erickson Lubin.

Ennis vs Ortiz ranks with the best fights to be made in the sport and in a division thriving with young champions (WBA champion Abass Baraou doesn't count), in WBC champion Sebastian Fundora, WBO champion Xander Zayas, and IBF boss Bakhram Murtazaliev, the winner will have a claim as the best in the division and could make top unification fights with any of the thtee.

Hopefully, we will see this long-awaited clash early next year.

The co-feature was a fun slugfest as former Olympian Guido Vianello rebounded from his loss to Richard Torrez with a fifth-round KO of previously unbeaten Alexis Barriere.

Barriere did well over the first three rounds with both fighters landing woth power before Vinello knocking Barriere down later in the fourth round.

Vianello closed the fight quickly in the fifth after another knockdown.

In Sheffield, England, Arslanbek Makhmudov outslugged and survived two lost points for holding to outpoint Dave "The White Rhino" Allen over twelve rounds in another heavyweight battle.

Makhmudov was the more technically skilled fighter and held off a late Allen rally to win by scores of 117-109, 116-110, and 115-111.

Boxing Challenge

TRS: 135 Pts (3)

Ramon Malpica: 128 Pts (3)

Vince Samano: 53 Pts (1) 

Boxing Challenge: Allen avenges defeat, KO's Fisher

      Often in boxing, when an underdog is deprived of a deserved victory, they don't do as well in the rematch.

Dave Allen changed that narrative with a brutal fifth-round knockout of Johnny Fisher in London.

Fisher won their first fight in Saudi Arabia, a fight which most gave the nod to Allen, by split decision, and was expected to handle Allen at home in England. 

Fisher did well for a while, using the jab and fighting off the attacking Allen but you had the feeling that eventually Allen was going to have his chance to take Fisher out.

Allen dropped Fisher in the fifth round in the first fight but couldn't finish the job, which allowed Fisher to take the fight to the judges.

This time, the fifth round would be the end of the fight as Allen knocked down a fading Fisher, who showed heart in rising but the fight could have been ended with Fisher on shaky legs.

Allen didn't allow Fisher to wiggle off the hook this time as he slammed a left hook to Fisher, sending him face first to the floor as his corner tossed the towel of surrender in mid-flight.

For Allen, the win will help a trialhorse receive a few more solid paydays at the British level and he should be quite competitive at that level.

For Fisher, it likely finishes him as a potential world-class prospect and resigns him to a career at the British level.

In Comnerce, California, top junior middleweight contender Serhii Bohachuk hammered out a unanimous decision over Mykal Fox.

Bohachuk is currently the number one contender in the WBC and will meet the winner of the Sebastian Fundora-Tim Tszyu rematch and the experience in fighting the 6'3 Fox would come in handy against the 6'6 Fundora, if Fundora wins the Tszyu rematch.

Judges scores were 98-92 times two and 97-93 as I've been unable to watch as of this writing.

Boxing Challenge

TRS: 73 Pts (1)

Ramon Malpica: 71 Pts (1)

Vince Samano: 30 Pts (0)