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Middleweight: Jermain Taylor exits for inactivity and let’s hope, given his erratic behavior in the last year, no one who cares about him lets him take any further head trauma. Daniel Jacobs moves past a defeated David Lemieux who will try to rebuild after running into the GGG juggernaut. Golovkin’s looming IBF mandatory, Tureano Johnson, cracks the top ten for the first time.
BoxingScene.com caught up with welterweight contender Aron Martinez (20-4-1) who scored what may go down as the the 2015 "Upset of the Year" when he defeated former two-division world champion Devon Alexander (26-4) last Wednesday in Glendale, Arizona. The bout was televised on ESPN as part of their monthly Premier Boxing Champions series.
GLENDALE, AZ. -Tonight's Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN fight card featured Mexican brawler Aron Martinez (20-4-1, 4 KOs) capturing a unanimous decision (97-93, 97-93, 96-94) victory over former world champion Devon Alexander "The Great" (26-4, 14 KOs). In a 10-round battle, spent mostly on the inside, Martinez managed to emerge victorious.
GLENDALE, AZ. -Tonight's Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN fight card featured Mexican brawler Aron Martinez (20-4-1, 4 KOs) capturing a unanimous decision (97-93, 97-93, 96-94) victory over former world champion Devon Alexander "The Great" (26-4, 14 KOs). In a 10-round battle, spent mostly on the inside, Martinez managed to emerge victorious.
Aron Martinez delivered one of the biggest surprises of the year when he beat Devon Alexander on points on Wednesday night. The 33-year-old Mexican beat Alexander, a former IBF and WBC super-lightweight and IBF welterweight champion, on points over ten rounds in a welterweight bout in Glendale, Arizona. The scores were 97-93 on two cards and 96-94.
Judging by the ratings, it seems that a lot of fans missed out on a main event that could serve as the biggest upset of the year. A special Wednesday edition of Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN drew an average of just 428,000 viewers, with the telecast once again met with a lot of competition in the sports world. On a night where Fox Sports 1 raked in a record-high ratings thanks to its coverage of Major League Baseball playoffs, the ESPN boxing telecast was topped by journeyman Aron Martinez scoring a major upset in a 10-round decision win over Devon Alexander in Glendale, Arizona.
Gila River Arena, Glendale, Arizona - Former two division world champion Devon Alexander (26-4, 14KOs) returned for the first time since the December decision loss to Amir Khan, and failed to make the type of statement he was looking for by struggling to a ten round unanimous decision loss to 50-1 underdog Aron Martinez (20-4-1, 4KOs). The scores were 96-94, 97-93, 97-93.