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The Strawweights delivered, Moises Fuentes’ upset of Raul Garcia for the WBO 105 lb. belt turning out to be what sounds like a highlight of the summer.

The Strawweights delivered, Moises Fuentes’ upset of Raul Garcia for the WBO 105 lb. belt turning out to be what sounds like a highlight of the summer.

What is there to look forward to when an excellent match in the deepest, and at this point probably best, weight class in boxing falls apart? When the answer is a doubleheader in one of the worst divisions in the game, it might seem cause for a touch of depression.

It’s okay if this is one of those weeks where fans resent the sport. In a summer where the logical conclusion might have been, “nothing can be worse than the judging in Paul Williams-Erislandy Lara,” boxing went and outdid itself.

After an unfortunate postponement, it’s back on. The finals of the Showtime Bantamweight tournament might not clear up who the best in the world is at 118 lbs. but, really, who cares?

Barring any errant sciatic nerves, boxing stands TWO weeks away from the conclusion of Showtime’s excellent Bantamweight tournament.

By Jake Donovan - Beibut Shumenov (12-1, 8KO) successfully defended his alphabet light heavyweight belt with a ninth round stoppage of Danny Santiago (31-5-1, 19KO) on Friday evening at the South Point Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The official time was 0:46 in the ninth round of their Telefutura-televised main event.

No, really, there are televised fights this week.

Even unification is diluted these days. In the 70s and early 1980s, when there were but two major beltholders (mostly), unification meant resolution. Now, with at least four belts floating around per class, maybe unification resolves the issue of a division’s champion.

It still pisses this scribe off. Erislandy Lara-Paul Williams?

Sure, the fight was a stinker. That’s unfortunate. It doesn’t mean the build last week wasn’t fun. It was almost nostalgic to treat the Heavyweight title with such anticipation again. We get to do it again in September when Vitali Klitschko defends a belt against former Cruiser and Light Heavy champ Tomasz Adamek.