Pictured: WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero

From Friday night through today, 10 boxers currently ranked by TTR's membership as being among the best in their respective divisions saw action. Seven won; three lost.



2/5- Fort Lauderdale, Florida- TTR #4 ranked light heavyweight Glen Johnson stopped TTR #15 ranked light heavyweight Yusaf Mack at 2:21 of the sixth round to win an IBF title eliminator. Johnson, the former IBF and former IBO light heavyweight champion, came into the bout ranked #6 by the IBF and #3 by Ring Magazine. He upped his record to 50-13-2 with 34 KOs by pressuring Mack and flooring the IBF #11 ranked contender three times in the sixth round. Mack, also ranked #7 by The Ring, suffered his third loss. He's won 28, 17 by knockout, and has battled to two draws.



2/6- Moscow, Russia- TTR #15 ranked middleweight Dmitry Pirog retained the WBO Asia Pacific title by stopping late substitute Eric Mitchell at 1:07 of the 5th round. Pirog, who also holds the WBC International and WBC Asian Boxing Council titles, improved to 15-0 with 12 KOs. He is currently ranked #2 by the WBO, #4 by the WBC, and #15 by the WBA. The TTR unranked Mitchell, who fell to 22-7-1 with 11 KOs, took the fight after his brother Aaron (27-1-1, 21 KOs), Pirog's originally scheduled opponent, was injured in training.

2/6- Tokyo, Japan- TTR #12 ranked 126-pounder Ryol Li "Retsuri" Lee won the vacant Japanese national featherweight title by unanimously outpointing TTR unranked Kazunori Takayama over 10 rounds. The scores were 97-95, 97-94, and 98-94. Lee, ranked #14 by the WBA, is now 15-1-1 with 8 KOs. Takayama slipped to 17-6-4 with 4 KOs.



2/6- Montreal, Quebec, Canada- TTR #16 ranked middleweight David Lemieux went the distance for the first time as a professional, scoring a one-sided, unanimous decision over TTR unranked veteran Jason Naugler to win the vacant Canadian super middleweight title. All three judges scored the bout 100-89 for Lemieux. With the victory, the 21-year-old Montreal native, who also holds the WBC Youth Intercontinental middleweight title, raised his record to 21-0 with 20 KOs. Naugler, 31, who hails from Halifax, Nova Scotia, dropped to 18-12-1 with 11 KOs.



2/6- Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico- TTR #12 ranked welterweight Luis Carlos Abregu rose from a second round knockdown, floored TTR unranked Richard Gutierrez in the third round, and went on to win a convincing 10-round, unanimous decision by the scores of 98-90, 97-91, and 97-91. The WBC #6 and IBF #9 ranked Argentinian is now 29-0 with 23 KOs. Gutierrez, a Colombian fighting out of Miami, Florida, lost for the third time in his last four fights, dropping his record to 24-4-1 with 1 No Contest and 14 wins by knockout.



2/6- Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico- TTR #2 ranked lightweight Edwin Valero, 28, of Venezuela retained the WBC title with an impressive stoppage of TTR #10 ranked lightweight Antonio DeMarco. Valero, now 27-0 with 27 KOs, overcame a nasty cut caused by an errant elbow to wear down and discourage the WBC interim champ. DeMarco's corner decided their fighter had enough after the end of the ninth round. With the loss, the 24-year-old Tijuana resident fell to 23-2-1 with 17 KOs.



2/6- Newark, New Jersey, USA- TTR #1 ranked cruiserweight Tomasz Adamek retained the IBF International heavyweight title with a 12-round, unanimous decision over TTR unranked Jason Estrada. Adamek won by the scores of 115-113, 116-112, and 118-110. Adamek, The Ring's cruiserweight champion who is ranked #8 by the IBF, #10 by the WBA, and #11 by the WBC as a heavyweight, brought his record to 40-1 with 27 KOs. Estrada slipped to 16-3 with one No Contest and 4 wins by knockout.



2/7- Kobe, Hyogo, Japan- TTR unranked Daiki Kameda, in his third try to become a world flyweight champion, succeeded! The 21-year-old Kameda won the WBA title from defending champion Denkaosan Kaovichit, TTR's #5 ranked 112-pounder, with a 12-round, unanimous decision. Judges Stanley Christodoulou and Glenn Feldman each scored the bout 116-110 while judge Pasquale Procopio had it 114-112. Kameda, ranked #11 by the WBA, improved to 16-2 with 11 KOs as he joined his older brother Koki as a reigning world flyweight champ. Koki dethroned lineal and WBC champion Daisuke Naito this past November, avenging Daiki's October 2007 loss to Naito. Daiki did enough in this visually unpleasing bout to avenge his October 2009 loss to Kaovichit, who slid to 48-2-1 with 20 KOs.