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Full fight report from TBG' latest promotion in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Full fight report from TBG' latest promotion in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Melvin Jerusalem (22-3, 12 KOs) squeezed out a hard fought split decision win on away soil to relieve Yudai Shigeoka (8-1, 5 KOs) WBC minimumweight world title. Jerusalem becomes a two time world champion. Japan has become a happy hunting ground for the Filipino, having knocked out Masataka Taniguchi last May in Osaka for the WBO 105 pound belt. One judge scored in favour of Shigeoka with just a point in it at 114-113. The other two judges had it identical at 114-112 for Jerusalem to give the away fighter the split decision victory.

Yudai Shigeoka (8-0, 5 KOs) will make the first defense of WBC minimumweight world title tomorrow when he welcomes former world champion Melvin Jerusalem to Nagoya, Japan.

Andrew Moloney Discusses Pedro Guevara Replacing Carlos Cuadras as Opponent

Former featherweight world champion Nicholas Walters (29-1-1, 22 KOs) scored a commanding unanimous decision victory over Joseph Adorno (18-4-2, 15 KOs) on Wednesday, in his first televised fight in more than seven years.

Junior welterweight Starling Castillo (19-1-1, 13 KOs) snatched a split decision win over Jesus Saracho (13-2-1, 11 KOs) Wednesday in a close co-main event on ProBox TV’s “Wednesday Night Fights” in Plant City, Florida.

Omar Juarez (15-2, 5 KOs) scored two knockdowns over Clarence Booth (21-10, 13 KOs) in the dying moments of his junior welterweight clash to score a wide points win on ProBox TV’s “Wednesday Night Fights” in Plant City, Florida.

Nicholas Walters, who will take on contender Joseph Adorno tonight, says George Kambosos has the power to topple Vasiliy Lomachenko in their May 12 fight for a vacant lightweight title.

Two-belt minimumweight titleholder Seniesa Estrada will finally get the fight she has longed for when she confronts Yokasta Valle in Glendale, Arizona, on March 29. “It’s relief and excitement,” Estrada told Boxing Scene of the undisputed title fight with Valle, her Costa Rican rival and fellow two-belt titleholder. “It has been years in the making. But as we were saying, even though it has been years in the making trying to make this fight, there is no better time to do it than now because women’s boxing has been the best that it has been – ever. I’m happy we were able to get this exposure on this platform.”

Gilberto Ramirez has already made history as a Mexican fighter, and this weekend he’ll get a chance to replicate it in the ring. But what he has in mind beyond that could hold even greater implications for his country and its young fighters.