Riyadh Season hosted a Latino evening, and Gilberto Ramirez added the WBO cruiserweight title to his WBA belt, as he took a high-octane factors win towards Chris Billam-Smith.
A former WBO tremendous middleweight champion, Ramirez (47-1, KO30) moved to cruiserweight final yr, and after a large factors win over Joe Smith Jr, he took the WBA belt with a ten rounds to 2 rout of Arsen Goulamirian in March. Billam-Smith (20-2, KO13) gained the WBO strap in a scrappy majority resolution victory over Lawrence Okolie in Might final yr, and he was final out in June, gaining revenge on Richard Riakporhe with a factors win at Selhurst Park.
Billam-Smith made a really vibrant begin within the opening spherical, connecting with a number of strong blows, however Ramirez discovered a groove from spherical two, touchdown a pointy left hand that buzzed the Englishman, and his combos had been troubling the WBO boss. The fourth noticed Billam-Smith bloodied by the nostril, as Ramirez landed an outstanding proper hand and a few spectacular combos to the physique, and he was breaking his opponent down with the sheer quantity of punches he was touchdown with.
This battle is HEATING UP!
Nice combos from each fighters 
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Ramirez stored his foot on the gasoline, with the physician having a look on the Billam-Smith eye forward of spherical seven, and though the Bournemouth man stored working onerous, he was struggling to cope with the cumulative impact of Ramirez’s work. Billam-Smith did rally down the stretch, however he couldn’t discover the blows to dent Ramirez’s spirit, and the Mexican was in a position to stay correct sufficient to carry his man at bay, and after the pair left all of it within the ring within the remaining spherical, it was all the way down to the scorecards.
What a battle by Zurdo and Chris Billam-Smith 
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Two scores of 116-112 and a 3rd at 116-113 ensured Ramirez went dwelling a unified world champion.
The WBO tremendous light-weight title eliminator on the cardboard did not catch hearth, however Arnold Barboza Jr (31-0, KO11) did sufficient to take a ten spherical resolution win towards former unified world champion, Jose Carlos Ramirez (29-2, KO18). It was a stop-start affair, however Barboza had the higher of the argument in the primary, and ran out a winner by two scores of 96-94 and one at 97-93.
The interim WBC light-weight title went the way in which of William Zepeda (32-0, KO27), as he took a razor-thin factors win towards Tevin Farmer (33-7-1, KO8), getting off the ground within the course of. Zepeda was decked within the fourth spherical, an enormous left hand having him on the canvas, and the competition went the complete ten rounds, the place Zepeda, took two scores of 95-94, towards a 3rd rating for a similar tally for former world champion Farmer.
TEVIN FARMER DROPPED WILLIAM ZEPEDA 
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Oscar Collazo (11-0, KO8) defended his WBO minimumweight world title for a fourth time, and he dazzled with a seventh spherical stoppage win towards Thammanoon Niyomtrong (25-1, KO9). Niyomtrong was down in spherical six, and twice extra earlier than the stoppage.
HE'S DONE IT!!! OSCAR COLLAZO IS THE NEW WBO WBA UNIFIED MINIMUMWEIGHT CHAMPION!!!!!
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Oscar Duarte (28-2-1, KO22) gained his tremendous light-weight ten rounder on factors towards Botirzhon Akhmedov (10-4, KO9). Duarte triumphed by scores of 98-92, 97-93 and 96-94.
Welterweight prospect Ziyad Almaayouf (6-0-1, KO1)suffered a setback, as he was held to a draw over six rounds towards Juan Carlos Ramirez Garcia (5-6-1, KO0). One decide had Almaayouf a 58-56 winner, however two scores of 57-57 ensured the battle was a stalemate.
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