Yuliahn Luna: record, next fight and profile →
Skye Nicolson defeated Yuliahn Luna via a 10-round unanimous decision Saturday at Adventist Health Arena in Stockton, California, to win a WBC interim junior featherweight title.
Luna will face Skye Nicolson at the Adventist Health Arena in Stockton, California on Saturday. The 10-round junior featherweight bout is for the interim WBC title.
Holstebro, Denmark - Irish super welterweight Steven Cairns moved to 6-0 by stopping Polish Marian Wieslowski (3-8-1) at 15 seconds in the second round of a scheduled six-rounder. Wieslowski held his own in the first but got caught early in the second and fell into ropes. The referee gave him a count and then stopped it with the official result announced as a knockout.
According to BoxRec, WBC female bantamweight champion Yuliahn Luna Avila (25-3-1) is 5ft / 152 cm tall. However, the Yuliahn Luna Avila that showed up in Holstebro, Denmark at today's weigh-in is about 5'6 or about 167 cm. Luna weighed in at 52,8 kg / 116.4 lbs.
Belgian super bantamweight Geram Eloyan (9-4) defends the EU title against Italian Vincenzo La Femina (12-0) at the Alfasun Indoor Arena in Roosdal on Saturday (June 17). This is the first defense of the title he won earlier this year by beating Frenchman Florian Montels in France.
The news that WBO bantamweight champion Dina Thorslund (19-0) and the WBC title holder in the same weight division, Yuliahn Luna Avila (25-3-1), will meet in a title unification on September 2 in Denmark might be true - however, according to Danish website knock-out.dk there is no done deal just yet.
An intriguing clash between once-beaten junior featherweights will headline tonight’s BXSTRS card. Bryan Mercado will square off against Brandon Gamez at the Domo de la Feria in Fresnillo, Mexico. The eight-round bout will stream live on ESPN Knockout (9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT).
Two of China’s, and Asia’s top regional cruiserweight pugilists, will clash for the vacant WBC Asian Boxing Council 200 pound championship title on the Zhongji Sports promoted boxing event in Shaoxing, China, on Saturday, December 26.
Melissa Oddessa Parker (3-0, 2 KOs) continued her explosive performance in the professional ranks, as the 9-time national amateur champion viciously overcame the challenger and undefeated, Brittany Simms this past weekend in Greenville, South Carolina to become NABF super bantamweight champion.
Over the weekend at the Arena Oasis in Cancun, Quintana Roo. – Showing great determination and boxing skills, the fighter from Gómez Palacio, Yulihan ‘Cobrita’ Luna, jabbed effectively and flowed up with hard combos, to seize the WBC bantamweight title from Mariana Juarez.