DULUTH, Ga. - Former two-time world champion Lakva Sim of Los Angeles stopped Ebo Elder of Newnan, Ga., in the 12th and final round of their WBA lightweight title elimination bout Friday night.
Although Sim, the WBA super featherweight champion in 1999 and that organization's lightweight champ last year, knocked down Elder three times, two judges scored the bout even through eleven rounds.
Sim left no doubt in the 12th, knocking down Elder three more times before the bout was stopped with 44 seconds gone in the round. Sim also knocked down Elder once in the third, the sixth and 11th rounds.
Sim now is scheduled to fight current WBA lightweight champion Juan Diaz.
The 33-year-old Sim, originally from Mongolia is 21-4-1 with 18 knockouts. Elder, 26, is 22-2 with 14 knockouts.
Both fighters weighed in at the 135-pound limit.
Also, undefeated and world-ranked heavyweight Sultan Ibragimov of Miami won a unanimous decision over Friday Ahunanya of Las Vegas. Ibragimov, ranked No. 8 by the World Boxing Organization, is 18-0 with 15 knockouts. Ahunanya slipped to 20-4-2 with 11 knockouts.
Ibragimov, originally from Russia, weighed 221 pounds. Ahunanya, originally from Nigeria, weighed 233.
