1918- Jack Dempsey KO 1 Fred Fulton, Harrison, NJ. Dempsey flattens the 6’ 3” Fulton in 23 seconds. When chronicling Dempsey’s rise to the heavyweight title, “historians” just loved giving the details of his first round KO of “the 6’ 7” Fred Fulton. Talk about tall tales.
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1921- Johnny Wilson WF 7 William Bryan Downey, Cleveland. Retains world middleweight title.
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1922- Benny Leonard ND 12 Lew Tendler, Jersey City, NJ.
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1937- Henry Armstrong KO 4 Benny Bass, Philadelphia.
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1964- Flash Elorde KO 12 Teruo Kosaka, Tokyo. Retains world super-featherweight title.
1985- Dwight Qawi KO 11 Piet Crous, Sun City, SA. Wins WBA cruiserweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/m9qa7ytg
1990- Massimilliano Duran WF 11 Carlos DeLeon, Capo d’Orlando, Italy. Wins WBC cruiserweight title.
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1991- Mauro Galvano W 12 Ron Essett, Capo d’Orlando, Italy. Retains WBC super-middleweight title.
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1991- Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker W 12 Poli Diaz, Norfolk. Retains WBC/IBF lightweight title.
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1992- Victor Rabanales KO 4 Luis Alberto Campo, Tuxtla, Mexico. Retains WBC interim bantamweight title.
2002- John Ruiz W disq. 10 Kirk Johnson, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title. Ruiz has to be one of the weakest heavyweight belt holders of all-time.
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2002- Byron Mitchell KO 4 Julio Cesar Green, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Super Middleweight Title. Byron down twice in round 1 but won on cuts!!!
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2002- Tim Austin KO 10 Adan Vargas, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.[/size]
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1921- Johnny Wilson WF 7 William Bryan Downey, Cleveland. Retains world middleweight title.
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1922- Benny Leonard ND 12 Lew Tendler, Jersey City, NJ.
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1937- Henry Armstrong KO 4 Benny Bass, Philadelphia.
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1964- Flash Elorde KO 12 Teruo Kosaka, Tokyo. Retains world super-featherweight title.
1985- Dwight Qawi KO 11 Piet Crous, Sun City, SA. Wins WBA cruiserweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/m9qa7ytg
1990- Massimilliano Duran WF 11 Carlos DeLeon, Capo d’Orlando, Italy. Wins WBC cruiserweight title.
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1991- Mauro Galvano W 12 Ron Essett, Capo d’Orlando, Italy. Retains WBC super-middleweight title.
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1991- Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker W 12 Poli Diaz, Norfolk. Retains WBC/IBF lightweight title.
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1992- Victor Rabanales KO 4 Luis Alberto Campo, Tuxtla, Mexico. Retains WBC interim bantamweight title.
2002- John Ruiz W disq. 10 Kirk Johnson, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Heavyweight Title. Ruiz has to be one of the weakest heavyweight belt holders of all-time.
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2002- Byron Mitchell KO 4 Julio Cesar Green, Las Vegas. Retains WBA Super Middleweight Title. Byron down twice in round 1 but won on cuts!!!
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2002- Tim Austin KO 10 Adan Vargas, Las Vegas. Retains IBF Bantamweight Title.[/size]
1961- Rene Jacquot (born in in Toul, France)
Jacquot is a former professional boxer and world title holder.
Jacquot turned professional in 1983 and captured the WBC Light Middleweight Title in 1989 with an upset win over Donald Curry. He lost the belt in his first defence to John Mugabi, via TKO in the first round. In 1990 he challenged WBC Light Middleweight Title holder Terry Norris, but lost a decision. In his final bout, he took on IBF Light Middleweight Title holder Gianfranco Rosi later that year, but again lost a decision.
1967- "Iceman" John Scully (born in Hartford Connecticut)
Formerly a world-ranked professional light heavyweight, he is now a boxing trainer and an analyst for the ESPN Classic television network.
Scully graduated from Windsor (Connecticut) High School in 1985. He began boxing in 1982 and won numerous championships at middleweight (165 pounds) including the 1987 Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio), the 1987 National PAL (Jacksonville, Florida) and the 1988 Eastern U.S. Olympic Trials (Fayetteville, North Carolina).
Scully defeated World 165 pound Amateur Champion Darin Allen to win the Eastern Trials, future heavyweight contender Melvin Foster to win the Ohio Fair, and nationally rated Kertis Mingo at the National PAL. Scully won Outstanding Boxer awards at both the 1987 Western Massachusetts Golden Gloves and the 1988 Eastern U.S. Olympic Trials tournaments.
In February 1988, the 5 foot 10 inch boxer was named to the All-Time team (in the middleweight spot) for the WM Golden Gloves in Holyoke, Massachusetts, joining fellow standouts Mike Tyson (heavyweight) and Marlon Starling Marlon "Magic Man" Starling or Moochie (honorable mention at welterweight). Scully won four straight WM Golden Gloves titles (1985-1988) and three consecutive New England Golden Gloves titles (1986-1988).
Defeated fellow future world title challenger Joey DeGrandis to win the 1988 New England Golden Gloves championships.
Scully also advanced to the championship round of the National Golden Gloves tournament, losing on 3-2 split decision in 1987 at Knoxville (to Fabian Williams of Michigan) and a highly disputed call in Omaha in 1988 to Keith Providence of New York City.
The "Iceman" concluded his amateur career with a final record of 57-13 (not including two junior olympic bouts at age 15 and two exhibition matches).
Scully turned professional in 1988 and finished his career in 2001 with a 38-11 record (21 knockouts). He fought for the International Boxing Federation world light heavyweight championship at Leipzig, Germany in 1996, losing a 12 round decision to unbeaten champion Henry Maske. On December 8, 1995 Scully fought two-time world champion Michael Nunn for the WBO NABO super middleweight title. Although ESPN commentators had the fight close, Nunn was awarded a unanimous win, including a curiously wide score on the card of judge Harold Gomes.
His victories include a ten round decision over Art Baylis (On Prime TV Network), a ten round decision over WBC International 154 pound champion Billy Bridges (on ESPN) and a second round stoppage over former IBO 168 pound world champion Willie Ball.
Scully also captured a November 1989 unanimous decision on USA's Tuesday Night Fights over former #1 nationally ranked 156 pound amateur Alphonso Bailey of Kentucky. Scully-Bailey was the co-feature to Simon Brown's IBF 147 pound title defense against Luis Santana.
On May 22, 1992 at Agawam, Massachusetts Scully captured a unanimous 12 round decision over Southern Boxing Association champion Melvin Wynn of Atlanta, Georgia in a fight contested for the World Boxing Federation Intercontinental Super Middleweight title.
Scully also frequently served as a sparring partner for some of the biggest names in the sport, including the highly regarded world champions Henry Maske, Mike McCallum, Vinny Pazienza, Roy Jones Jr. and James "Lights Out" Toney.
Scully trained several standout amateurs while pursuing his own boxing career, including 1997 National Junior Olympics Champion Sammy Vega, 1995 Ohio State Fair Champion Greg Cuyler, 1998 National PAL Champion Dwayne Hairston and 2000 U.S. Armed Forces Champion Orlando Cordova.
Since 2003, has been successful as a professional trainer, guiding three boxers to world championships (WIBF Lightweight Champion Liz Mueller, WBA Junior Middleweight Champion Jose Antonio Rivera and IBO Super Bantamweight Champion Mike Oliver).
The crowning moment may have been when he masterfully guided Rivera to the WBA Junior Middleweight Championship with a clear points victory on Showtime over defending champion Alejandro "Terra" Garcia.
Scully has also had a hand in the professional training of notable boxers Pito Cardona, Matt Godfrey, Ray Olivera, Scott "The Sandman" Pemberton, Lawrence Clay-Bey and Matt Remillard. He is also considered an important part of the development of future WBC light heavyweight world champion "Bad" Chad Dawson. Scully trained Dawson for three fights in 2004 and 2005.
Known for his insightful takes on the sport of boxing, especially his corner work between rounds of televised fights, Scully has written a highly praised boxing book entitled, The Iceman Diaries that details his life within the sport. He appears often on ESPN Classic, working alongside Joe Tessitore as a ringside analyst for that network's ESPN Classic Boxing Series.
Scully has also been featured several times on ESPN News before and after major fights, previewing and analyzing the action, including Pay-Per-View battles between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley and Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cott
1973- Juan Carlos Gomez (born in Havana, Cuba)
Gomez is a former Cuban amateur star, former WBC Cruserweight Champion and devout Muslim, boxes out of Hamburg, Germany.
He defected from Cuba during a stay in Germany. "I didn't choose boxing," said Cuban defector Juan Carlos Gómez in a recent interview. "They chose it for me in Cuba. I wanted to become a baseball player. That was always my dream. But, you know, in Cuba you are not allowed to make your own decisions."
* Amateur Record: 158-12
* 1990 - Gold Medal World Junior Championships in Lima at 75 kg
* 1994 - Represented Cuba at the Chemistry Cup, his results were:
Defeated Jan Schwank (Germany) 9-4
Lost to Sven Ottke (Germany) 9-9
* 1994 - Competed at the USA Vs Cuba Cup in Ledyard, USA
Defeated Antonio Tarver (USA) 10-10
* 1995 - Represented Cuba at the Chemistry Cup, his results were:
Lost to Thomas Ulrich (Germany)12-16
The southpaw turned pro as a cruiser for Universum box promotions. On February 21, 1998, in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, Gómez won the WBC Cruiserweight title from reigning champion, Marcelo Fabian Dominguez via a unanimous decision.
Nicknamed "Black Panther", Gómez ruled the cruiserweight division from 1998–2001, successfully defending his WBC Cruiserweight Title ten times. Among his notable defenses were those against Dominguez (rematch), Imamu Mayfield and smaller Jorge Castro (boxer) who was KOd for the first time. James Toney declined a title shot when he was mandatory and later fought and beat Vassily Jirov.
He then vacated the title in February 2002 in order to move up to the Heavyweight ranks.
In 2001 Gómez tested the waters in the heavyweight division and beaten durable veteran Al Cole (another former Cruiserweight champ) by TKO 6. Gómez then moved back down to defend his title against Pietro Aurino, and after defeating Aurino he moved up to heavyweight permanently.
Gómez has had some success at heavyweight, capturing wins over Sinan Samil Sam and David Defiagbon, but was shockingly TKO'd by fellow Cuban Yanqui Diaz in the first round in 2004.
Gómez defeated Don King promoted Oliver McCall via a ten round decision on October 15, 2005, a result which was changed shortly thereafter to a no contest after Gomez failed a post-fight drug test due to a presence of cocaine. Gómez vehemently denied the charge and backed this up by producing a negative test where no drugs were found in his system, though this test was taken two months after the fight.
After that Gómez announced that he converted to Islam. Gómez stated, '“After they stole my victory over Oliver McCall because of doping in October 2005 I was totally devastated. I swear that I never doped in my life. After the fight I went to the USA where I was built up by the Black Muslim community. That's why I converted to Islam. I thank Allah for giving me back my courage, energy and self esteem."' Gómez then returned to the ring on December 15, 2006 and in October 19 of 2007, once again outpointed Oliver McCall winning the WBC International Heavyweight title in the process, then on September 27, 2008, at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany, Gómez defeated Vladimir Virchis to become the #1 contender for the WBC heavyweight title.
Gómez faced WBC Heavyweight titleholder Vitali Klitschko on March 21 in Stuttgart, Germany. Early in the fight, Gomez managed to frustrate Klitschko by diverting a large number of jabs, but eventually Klitschko was able to establish control using his immense size and superior punching power. He was floored by a big right hand in round seven, but managed to get up. After a barrage of punches in round nine, the referee stopped the fight.
On March 27, 2010 Gómez made a successful comeback, defeating Alexey Mazikin to win the WBA International Heavyweight title. He went on to defeat Alexander Kahl of Germany on April 9 in Hamburg to record his second victory in a fortnight. Gómez has a scheduled fight against Raphael Zumbano for the vacant IBF Latino Heavyweight title on June 26 in Atlanta, Georgia.
1979- Jorge Arce (born in in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico)
Arce is the former WBO World Light Flyweight Champion, WBC World Light Flyweight Champion, WBC World Flyweight Interim Champion, WBA World Super Flyweight Interim Champion and WBO World Super Flyweight Champion. A world champion in three weight divisions, Arce remains a favorite fighter among many boxing fans.
Arce's trademark ring entrance features him wearing a black cowboy hat (thus earning him the nickname "The Mexican Cowboy") and sucking a cherry lollipop.
Arce turned pro at the age of 16, winning his first four fights. He lost to future champion Omar Romero and drew with Gabriel Munoz in back-to-back fights in the summer of 1996, but then won 10 straight bouts and a pair of regional belts before losing on points to veteran (and future IBF light flyweight champion) Jose Victor Burgos on December 12, 1997.
He recovered from that setback with four straight wins, earning his first world title shot on December 4, 1998 against Juan Domingo Córdoba for the WBO light-flyweight title. Arce won the fight and became a world champion at the age of 19.
After making one successful defense of his title, Arce drew a big-money fight in Tijuana against three-time former champion Michael Carbajal on July 31, 1999. Arce was ahead on all three judges' scorecards after 10 rounds, but in the 11th, the veteran Carbajal connected with a stunning right hand and captured the crown via a technical knockout, as Arce was unable to continue.
After a four-month layoff, Arce returned to the ring and won a WBO regional belt, while working his way back up the rankings for another title shot. That came on October 20, 2001, when he defeated Juanito Rubillar for the interim WBC version of the light flyweight title. Nine months later, he beat Yo-Sam Choi, the reigning champion who had been out with an injury, to take full distinction. He held the title until the summer of 2005 before relinquishing it to move up in weight.
Towards the end of 2003, he participated in the Televisa version of Big Brother, the Big Brother V.I.P. show that put celebrities together. He arrived in third place, then went training for his next defense, against former world champion Joma Gamboa on January 10 of the following year. Arce invited his Big Brother celebrity friends to the fight with Gamboa, his first fight of 2004, which he won by a second round knockout. But during and after the fight, chaos ensued. One of his friends, actress Arleth Gonzalez, was kicked off her chair by another person. And Verónica Castro was pursued by the press when she was trying to leave the fight site, taking her more than two hours to get to the site's parking lot.
On April 24, 2004, Arce successfully defended his title against former champ Melchor Cob Castro in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Arce had beaten Castro in May 2003, but the fight was called off after six rounds due to a clash of heads which injured Arce. The fight went to the scorecards and Arce won a narrow, but controversial, decision. He left no doubt in the rematch, knocking Castro out in the fifth round.
On September 4 of that same year, he retained the title with a twelve-round decision in a rematch with Rubillar. The fight caused some controversy afterwards, when Rubillar's manager accused the fight's judges of robbing his fighter, going on to offer Arce 100,000 dollars for a rematch, which would be held in the Philippines.
Arce moved on to defend his title once again on December 18, defeating Juan Centeno by a third-round TKO. He then decided to try his luck in the flyweight (112-pound) weight division.
On March 19, 2005, Arce stopped Hussein Hussein in the 10th round of a fight for the right to challenge Pongsaklek Wonjongkam for his WBC flyweight title. He later relinquished his light-flyweight crown, and was matched by the WBC with Angel Priolo on July 30 for their interim title after Wonjongkam suffered an injury. Arce scored a third-round TKO win in the fight, held in La Paz, Mexico.
While waiting to fight Wongjongkam, Arce stayed busy by rematching Hussein on October 8 in Las Vegas. He retained his WBC interim title with a second-round knockout.
On December 16, 2005, Arce defeated former two time champion Adonis Rivas. In his next bout, Arce defeated Rivas in a rematch.
On April 8, 2006, Arce took on the well regarded, former WBA world Strawweight and Light-Flyweight champion Rosendo Alvarez of Nicaragua, knocking Alvarez out in the sixth round in a non-title bout. On September 23, 2006, he moved up to the super-flyweight division where he defeated former light flyweight champion Masibulele "Hawk" Makepula by fourth round knockout (which, according to the HBO commentators, he had predicted earlier). On January 27, 2007, he defeated Argentinian Julio Ler in a 12-round decision, thus earning the WBC #1 super-flyweight ranking.
On April 14, 2007, he lost a 12-round unanimous decision to Cristian Mijares in San Antonio, Texas. Mijares won the fight by a wide margin, with the official judges scoring the match 119-109, 118-110, 117-111, all in favor of Mijares.
On December 1, 2007, Arce defeated former flyweight champion Medgoen Singsurat by technical knockout in the first round.
On May 17, 2008, in a very close fight, Arce (49-4-1, 37 KOs) edged Devid Lookmahanak of Thailand (18-2, 9 KOs) with a majority decision in the main event at the Plaza Monumental Aguascalientes in Aguascalientes, Mexico. With a sold-out crowd of 18,000 fans cheering him on, Arce had to dig deep and work hard to pull past the once-beaten Lookmahanak, who turned out to be a very game southpaw and rarely took a step back. The difference in the fight, which also gave Arce the win, was a knockdown in the seventh round. The scores were 115-113, 115-114 and 114-114. Without the extra point for the knockdown, the fight would have been scored a draw. The bout was an eliminator for a shot at the WBC super flyweight title. Arce moves on to a rematch with Cristian Mijares, who earlier captured the WBA's version of the title with a points win over Alexander Munoz.
On September 15, 2008, Arce won the WBA interim super flyweight title from holder Rafael Concepción.
Arce blasted Isidro Garcia, on November 1, 2008, via (48 seconds of the) 4th round technical knockout for a super flyweight belt. He improved to 51-4-1, with 38 wins inside the distance, while Garcia, who has lost 3 of his last 4 fights, was down to 25-6-2.
On February 7, 2009, Arce was defeated by undisputed super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan.
Arce fought Simphiwe Nongqayi on September 15, 2009 for the IBF super flyweight title which was recently vacated by Darchinyan. However, he ended losing by unanimous decision.
Arce defeated Indonesian Angky Angkota on January 30, 2010, winning the vacant WBO junior bantamweight title.[2] Prior to the bout, Arce stated that he would retire from boxing if he woild have lost. He is scheduled to move up to the Bantamweight division in his next bout and challenge Eric Morel for the interim WBO bantamweight title.
On April 24, 2010, Arce jumped to the bantamweight division to fight fellow Mexican Cecilio Santos (24-13-3; 14 KO) at the Centro de Usos Multiples in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico. Arce defeated his opponent by KO in the 7th round, improving his record to 54-6-1. This was not his first fight as a bantamweight: he already fought once in the weight class in 2007.
Arce was scheduled to fight Eric Morel (42-2; 21 KO) of Puerto Rico on June 26, 2010 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, United States with the interim WBO bantamweight title at stake. Arce withdrew from the fight a few weeks in advance due to a cut he received while in training. Morel comes from a controversial split decision win against veteran Filipino boxer Gerry Peñalosa.
Arce has gained some popularity outside the ring as well, acting in various Televisa comedy sketches (see above), and participating in Adal Ramones's show's dancing contest, "Bailando por un Sueño", where he and a fellow contestant arrived in eighth place out of nine couples. He has also done boxing commentary for TV Azteca.
According to HBO, Arce's girlfriend is teaching him to speak English in order to improve his marketability in the United States (where the lighter divisions are not generally followed by the public).
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1981- Paul "The Punisher" Williams {born Aiken, South Carolina)
Williams is the former two-time WBO welterweight champion.
At 6 feet 2 inches tall, Paul is considered extremely tall for the three divisions he campaigns in: Welterweight, Jr. Middleweight and Middleweight; During his career he has defeated world champions such as Winky Wright, Sergio Martinez, Kermit Cintron, Carlos Quintana, Antonio Margarito. He is also billed as being the most "avoided fighter in the world". Williams is currently rated by The Ring Magazine as the number seven pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
His debut was in the year 2000, and he is promoted by the Goossens. In 2005 he outpointed former Olympic bronze medalist Terrence Cauthen, and later that year, he knocked out Alfonso Sanchez in 5 rounds. His ESPN debut was a second round knockout of Sergio Rios on Wednesday Night Fights. Williams made his HBO debut against undefeated Walter Matthysse, winning by a tenth round technical knockout. That was followed by a victory over former junior welterweight world champion Sharmba Mitchell. He knocked Mitchell down three times en route to a fourth round TKO.
Williams became the mandatory challenger for WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito. The match took place July 14, 2007, in Carson, California, at the Home Depot Center with Williams winning a unanimous decision. Williams fought Carlos Quintana on February 9, 2008 in his first defense of his title. Williams lost to Quintana by decision.
Williams and Quintana had a rematch at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut on June 7, 2008 for the WBO welterweight title. Williams got off to a quick start when a left hand sent Quintana into a daze as several follow-up barrages put Quintana down. He got up, but Williams opened up with dozens of unanswered punches as the referee jumped in to stop the fight while Quintana was going down again.
Williams was rumored to be moving up two weight classes to fight Kelly Pavlik for the WBC Middleweight Title but instead Pavlik has decided to move up two weight classes himself to fight Bernard Hopkins. Williams fought Andy Kolle on September 25. Williams dominated the fight from the start and recorded a first round knockout in 1:37 seconds.
After failing to secure another meaningful contest at welterweight, Williams vacated his WBO welterweight title in order to fight Verno Phillips for the WBO Interim Junior Middleweight title.
On November 29, 2008, Williams defeated Phillips by way of TKO after 8 rounds after the Doctor stopped the fight. In doing so he secured the WBO interim junior middleweight title.
Williams punches Wright with a left straight.
Williams fought Winky Wright on April 11, 2009, in a 12-round middleweight bout featured on HBO. Williams defeated Wright in a unanimous decision which was not close on the scorecards – two of the three judges gave Williams all but one round while the third scored all 12 rounds for Williams.
Williams is currently preparing to fight middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik. The fight will be carried by HBO which put 3.75 million for the fight. The bout was scheduled to take place on October 3, 2009 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The bout was postponed when it was discovered Pavlik had a staph infection in his knuckle and had been rescheduled for December 5th. However, the bout was called off for a second time six weeks prior to the fight because Pavlik's infection had not completely healed.
On December 5th Paul Williams fought Sergio Martinez in a war of a twelve round main event. In the first round Martinez was knocked down due to bad balance and a grazing left hand. In the final seconds of the 1st round though Martinez scored a knockdown of his own over Williams. The next two rounds were heavily in Martinez's favor as he hit Williams with barrages of counter punches. Rounds 4-7 showed Williams coming back effectively landing hard lefts to the head of Martinez. In rounds 8-11 Martinez again confused Williams with using different varieties of punches, including straight lead lefts to the body followed by right hooks to the head and straight lefts to the face. The 12th and final round showed much fatigue in Martinez and Williams but the warriors fought through to the end. Williams won a close majority decision over Martinez with the judges scoring; Pierre Benoist 119-110 for Williams, Lynn Carter 115-113 for Williams and Julie Lederman 114-114. Afterward both fighters expressed interest in a possible rematch.
After his close win over Sergio Martinez, Paul Williams moved on to face Puerto Rican fighter Kermit Cintrón. The two met on May 8, 2010 Live on Saturday Night HBO Boxing. In the fourth round, Kermit Cintron fell out of the ring unintentionally and was not allowed to continue fighting due to hitting the arena floor. Williams was ahead on two of the three judges' scorecards at the time of the stoppage and was declared the winner by split technical decision.[7] Cintron, who believed he should have been ahead on the scorecards, will file a complaint to have the ruling changed to a no-contest, claiming he was not given the five minute recovery time allowed under California rules.
