Pictured: new WBO World junior featherweight champion Isaac Dogboe who will be rising from #9 in TTR's junior featherweight rankings thanks to his win over #1 ranked Jessie Magdaleno Saturday night


On Saturday, April 28, nine fighters ranked by the participating members of TTR as being among the best currently fighting in their respective weight classes were in action. Six, Arthur Abraham, Daniel Jacobs, Jarrell Miller, Isaac Dogboe, Anthony Dirrell, and Felix Alvarado, added wins to their ledgers while three, Maciej Sulecki, Johann Duhaupas, and Jessie Magdaleno, had losses added to theirs.

Offenburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany-

Vacant WBO International Super Middleweight Title-
Arthur Abraham (IBF #11, WBO #12, TTR #13; 47-6, 30 KOs)
Split Dec. 12
Patrick Nielsen (WBC #30; 29-3, 14 KOs)
- The scores were 116-111 and 116-111 for Abraham and 114-113 for Nielsen.

Brooklyn, New York,USA-

WBA World Middleweight Title Final Eliminator-
Daniel Jacobs (The Ring #2, WBA #2, WBO #2, TTR #3, Transnational #3, WBC #3, IBF #3; 34-2, 29 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 12
Maciej Sulecki (WBO #4, WBA #5- both at 160; WBC #6, Transnational #7, TTR #9, The Ring #10- all at 154; 26-1, 10 KOs)
- Jacobs floored Sulecki in the twelfth round and went on to win by the scores of 116-111, 117-110, and 115-112.

WBA World Heavyweight Title Eliminator-
Jarrell Miller (WBA #3, IBF #3, WBO #4, TTR #8, Transnational #9, The Ring #9; 21-0-1, 18 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 12
Johann Duhaupas (WBA #7, WBC #8, TTR #12, IBF #13; 37-5, 24 KOs)
- The scores were 119-109, 117-111, and 119-109.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA-

WBO World Junior Featherweight Title-
Interim champion Isaac Dogboe (The Ring #7, TTR #9, Transnational #9; 19-0, 13 KOs)
TKO-11 1:38
Champion Jessie Magdaleno (TTR #1, Transnational #1, The Ring #2; 25-1, 18 KOs)
- Dogboe was down in the first round.
- Magdaleno was down in the fifth round and down twice in the eleventh.
- Dogboe was leading by the scores of 96-91, 95-93, and 97-91 going into the 11th round.

El Paso, Texas, USA-

Super Middleweight Bout-
Anthony Dirrell (WBC #2, Transnational #3, TTR #4, IBF #5, The Ring #7; 32-1-1, 24 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 10
Abraham Han (26-4-1, 16 KOs)
- Dirrell decked Han in the opening stanza and went on to win by the scores of 99-93, 99-93, and 100-89.

Managua, Nicaragua-

Flyweight Bout-
Felix Alvarado (IBF #1, WBO #3, WBC #4, TTR #7, Transnational #7, The Ring #7- all at 108; 33-2, 29 KOs)
TKO-4 0:10
Ivan "Pollito" Meneses (Ivan Meneses Flores; 19-17-1, 11 KOs)
- For Alvarado, the bout, scheduled for eight rounds, was of the "stay-active" variety.
- Meneses, a former contender who once unsuccessfully challenged for the WBA World minimumweight title when it was held by Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez, retired in his corner and did not come out for the fourth round. He has now lost 7 of his last 8 bouts.
- Note: Claude Vesque of BoxRec noted that the result was "RTD-3 3:00" while Gustavo Jarquin, also of BoxRec, who is a judge, supervisor, and inspector for the Comision Nicaraguense de Boxeo Profesional and who served as a judge for the Alvarado-Meneses bout, posted the result as "TKO-4 0:10".