TTR SUPERFIGHTS CHALLENGE #16- MARCH 2024 SCHEDULE- Part 1

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Saturday, March 2-

San Juan, Puerto Rico

SUPERFIGHT #16-

Junior Flyweight Bout-
Jonathan Gonzalez vs. Rene Santiago

SUPERFIGHT #17-

Women's World Featherweight Title-
Champion Amanda Serrano vs. Nina Meinke

Verona, New York, USA-

SUPERFIGHT #18-

Featherweight Bout-
Luis Alberto Lopez vs. Reiya Abe

SUPERFIGHT #19-

Featherweight Bout-
Raymond Ford vs. Otabek Kholmatov

Friday, March 8, 2024-

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-

SUPERFIGHT #20-

Featherweight Bout-
Nick Ball vs. Rey Vargas

SUPERFIGHT #21-

Junior Middleweight Bout-
Israil Madrimov vs. Magomed Kurbanov

SUPERFIGHT #22-

Heavyweight Bout-
Zhilei Zhang vs. Joseph Parker

SUPERFIGHT #23-

Heavyweight Bout-
Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou

Saturday, March 16, 2024-

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA-

SUPERFIGHT #24-

Lightweight Bout-
William Zepeda vs. Maxi Hughes

SUPERFIGHT #25-

Women's World Flyweight Title-
Champion Marlen Esparza vs. Gabriela Celeste Alaniz

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Not taking a chance like with February's fights. After I realized I hadn't entered picks for the three fights in Japan, I discovered I hadn't enter picks Curiel-Nontshinga II and Foster-Nova either. I would have gone 4-1 but, as Mick Jagger said when he played Ned Kelly and his character was about to be hung, "Such is Life!".

16- Gonzalez
17- Serrano
18- Lopez
19- Ford
20- Ball
21- Madrimov (I hope! Not a fan of Kurbanov!)
22- Zhang (but a Parker win won't surprise me)
23- Joshua
24- Zepeda
25- I think Esparza will prevail again.

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No more rankings?
I guess it means doing leg work

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No more rankings?
I guess it means doing leg work 😕

Hopefully, at sometime in the future, I'll have time to include TTR, TBRB, and The Ring rankings in the schedule like I do when I post results. For the time being, unfortunately that's a luxury. Besides working on TTR's Men's rankings like I always do, I'm now working on TTR's Women's rankings also. I just finished posting TTR's Inaugural Women's Pound-For-Pound rankings. I hope to have Women's divisional rankings at some time in the near future. That's going to be, to say the least, a project!

[the13r]

Bomba ud
Serrano tko

[straycat]

Gonzalez
Serang
Lopez
Ford

[marciano1952]

Gonzalez
Serrano
Lopez
Otabek
Ball
Kurbanov
Parker
Joshua
Zepeda
Esparza

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RESULTS:

Saturday, March 2, 2024-

San Juan, Puerto Rico-

SUPERFIGHT #16-

Junior Flyweight Bout-
Jonathan 'Bomba' Gonzalez (TTR #1, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #1, The Ring #1; 28-3-1, 14 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 12
Rene Santiago (12-4, 9 KOs)
- The scores were 116-112, 115-113, and 117-111.
- Gonzalez retained the WBO World junior flyweight title.

SUPERFIGHT #17-

SCRATCH

Verona, New York, USA-

SUPERFIGHT #18-

Featherweight Bout-
Luis Alberto Lopez (TTR #2, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #2, The Ring #2; 30-2, 17 KOs)
TKO-8 0:39
Reiya Abe (TTR #6, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #6, The Ring #8; 25-4-1, 10 KOs)
- Lopez repeatedly punished mandatory challenger Abe. Abe's right eye was swollen shut when referee Mark Nelson finally stopped the bout in the eighth round.
- Lopez retained the IBF World featherweight title.

SUPERFIGHT #19-

Featherweight Bout-
Raymond Ford (TTR #7, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #7; 15-0-1, 8 KOs)
TKO-12 2:53
Otabek Kholmatov (TTR #18; 12-1, 11 KOs)
- This bout was fought for the vacant WBA World featherweight title.
- Going into the 12th round, Kholmatov was leading on two of the judges' cards by 106-103 scores while the third judge had Ford ahead, 105-104.
- Ford rallied in the 12th round. When he staggered Kholmatov, referee Charlie Fitch stopped the contest.

[straycat]

Gonzalez
Serang
Lopez
Ford

Vargas
Kurbanov
Zhang
Joshua (Dont feel to comfortable, Princess AJ will be the laughing stock of the division if he loses)
Zepeda
Esparza

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RESULTS:

Saturday, March 2, 2024-

San Juan, Puerto Rico-

SUPERFIGHT #16-

Junior Flyweight Bout-
Jonathan 'Bomba' Gonzalez (TTR #1, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #1, The Ring #1; 28-3-1, 14 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 12
Rene Santiago (12-4, 9 KOs)
- The scores were 116-112, 115-113, and 117-111.
- Gonzalez retained the WBO World junior flyweight title.

SUPERFIGHT #17-

SCRATCH

Verona, New York, USA-

SUPERFIGHT #18-

Featherweight Bout-
Luis Alberto Lopez (TTR #2, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #2, The Ring #2; 30-2, 17 KOs)
TKO-8 0:39
Reiya Abe (TTR #6, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #6, The Ring #8; 25-4-1, 10 KOs)
- Lopez repeatedly punished mandatory challenger Abe. Abe's right eye was swollen shut when referee Mark Nelson finally stopped the bout in the eighth round.
- Lopez retained the IBF World featherweight title.

SUPERFIGHT #19-

Featherweight Bout-
Raymond Ford (TTR #7, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #7; 15-0-1, 8 KOs)
TKO-12 2:53
Otabek Kholmatov (TTR #18; 12-1, 11 KOs)
- This bout was fought for the vacant WBA World featherweight title.
- Going into the 12th round, Kholmatov was leading on two of the judges' cards by 106-103 scores while the third judge had Ford ahead, 105-104.
- Ford rallied in the 12th round. When he staggered Kholmatov, referee Charlie Fitch stopped the contest.

Friday, March 8, 2024-

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-

SUPERFIGHT #20-

Featherweight Bout-
Rey Vargas (The Ring #3; 36-1-1, 22 KOs)
Split Dec. Draw 12
Nick Ball (TTR #6, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #7, The Ring #10; 19-0-1, 11 KOs)
- This bout, which was Vargas' first as a featherweight since July 9, 2022, was fought for Vargas' WBC World featherweight title.
- Vargas outboxed Ball during the first half of the bout but Ball rallied during the last six rounds, rocking Vargas in round 7 and flooring him in rounds 8 and 11.
- The scores were 114-112 for Vargas, 113-113, and 116-110 for Ball.
- I scored the bout for TTR's Main Page and had Ball winning, 114-112.

SUPERFIGHT #21-

Junior Middleweight Bout-
Israil 'The Dream' Madrimov (TTR #5, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #5, The Ring #6; 10-0-1, 7 KOs)
TKO-5 2:00
Magomed Kurbanov (TTR #13; 25-1, 13 KOs)
- This bout was fought for the vacant WBA World super welterweight title.
- 'The Dream' visibly hurt Kurbanov in round 5 and then unleashed a barrage of punches resulting in referee Steve Gray stopping the bout.

SUPERFIGHT #22-

Heavyweight Bout-
Joseph Parker (TTR #4, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #4, The Ring #4; 35-3, 23 KOs)
Maj. Dec. 12
Zhilei Zhang (TTR #2, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #2, The Ring #3; 26-2-1, 21 KOs)
- This bout was fought for Zhang's WBO Interim World heavyweight title.
- Zhang floored Parker in round 3 and in round 8 but Parker's superior boxing skills and superior stamina allowed him to outwork the tiring Zhang and earn a majority decision.
- The scores were 113-113, 114-112, and 115-111.
- Scoring the bout for TTR's Main Page, I had Parker winning, 115-111.

SUPERFIGHT #23-

Heavyweight Bout-
Anthony Joshua (The Ring #2, TTR #3, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #3; 28-3, 25 KOs)
KO-2 2:38
Francis Ngannou (0-2)
- Joshua dropped Ngannou three times- once in round 1 and twice in round 2.

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RESULTS:

Saturday, March 2, 2024-

San Juan, Puerto Rico-

SUPERFIGHT #16-

Junior Flyweight Bout-
Jonathan 'Bomba' Gonzalez (TTR #1, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #1, The Ring #1; 28-3-1, 14 KOs)
Unan. Dec. 12
Rene Santiago (12-4, 9 KOs)
- The scores were 116-112, 115-113, and 117-111.
- Gonzalez retained the WBO World junior flyweight title.

SUPERFIGHT #17-

SCRATCH

Verona, New York, USA-

SUPERFIGHT #18-

Featherweight Bout-
Luis Alberto Lopez (TTR #2, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #2, The Ring #2; 30-2, 17 KOs)
TKO-8 0:39
Reiya Abe (TTR #6, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #6, The Ring #8; 25-4-1, 10 KOs)
- Lopez repeatedly punished mandatory challenger Abe. Abe's right eye was swollen shut when referee Mark Nelson finally stopped the bout in the eighth round.
- Lopez retained the IBF World featherweight title.

SUPERFIGHT #19-

Featherweight Bout-
Raymond Ford (TTR #7, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #7; 15-0-1, 8 KOs)
TKO-12 2:53
Otabek Kholmatov (TTR #18; 12-1, 11 KOs)
- This bout was fought for the vacant WBA World featherweight title.
- Going into the 12th round, Kholmatov was leading on two of the judges' cards by 106-103 scores while the third judge had Ford ahead, 105-104.
- Ford rallied in the 12th round. When he staggered Kholmatov, referee Charlie Fitch stopped the contest.

Friday, March 8, 2024-

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-

SUPERFIGHT #20-

Featherweight Bout-
Rey Vargas (The Ring #3; 36-1-1, 22 KOs)
Split Dec. Draw 12
Nick Ball (TTR #6, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #7, The Ring #10; 19-0-1, 11 KOs)
- This bout, which was Vargas' first as a featherweight since July 9, 2022, was fought for Vargas' WBC World featherweight title.
- Vargas outboxed Ball during the first half of the bout but Ball rallied during the last six rounds, rocking Vargas in round 7 and flooring him in rounds 8 and 11.
- The scores were 114-112 for Vargas, 113-113, and 116-110 for Ball.
- I scored the bout for TTR's Main Page and had Ball winning, 114-112.

SUPERFIGHT #21-

Junior Middleweight Bout-
Israil 'The Dream' Madrimov (TTR #5, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #5, The Ring #6; 10-0-1, 7 KOs)
TKO-5 2:00
Magomed Kurbanov (TTR #13; 25-1, 13 KOs)
- This bout was fought for the vacant WBA World super welterweight title.
- 'The Dream' visibly hurt Kurbanov in round 5 and then unleashed a barrage of punches resulting in referee Steve Gray stopping the bout.

SUPERFIGHT #22-

Heavyweight Bout-
Joseph Parker (TTR #4, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #4, The Ring #4; 35-3, 23 KOs)
Maj. Dec. 12
Zhilei Zhang (TTR #2, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #2, The Ring #3; 26-2-1, 21 KOs)
- This bout was fought for Zhang's WBO Interim World heavyweight title.
- Zhang floored Parker in round 3 and in round 8 but Parker's superior boxing skills and superior stamina allowed him to outwork the tiring Zhang and earn a majority decision.
- The scores were 113-113, 114-112, and 115-111.
- Scoring the bout for TTR's Main Page, I had Parker winning, 115-111.

SUPERFIGHT #23-

Heavyweight Bout-
Anthony Joshua (The Ring #2, TTR #3, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #3; 28-3, 25 KOs)
KO-2 2:38
Francis Ngannou (0-2)
- Joshua dropped Ngannou three times- once in round 1 and twice in round 2.

Saturday, March 16, 2024-

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA-

SUPERFIGHT #24-

Lightweight Bout-
William Zepeda (TTR #4, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #4, The Ring #5; 30-0, 26 KOs)
TKO-4 3:00
Maxi Hughes (TTR #8, Transnational Boxing Rankings Board #8, The Ring #9; 26-7-2, 5 KOs)
- This bout was fought as an an eliminator for the IBF and WBA World lightweight titles.
- Zepeda dominated in each round.
- Hughes' corner retired their fighter after round 4.

SUPERFIGHT #25-

Postponed due to Gabriela Alaniz' visa problems