ESPN 8/24 Ray Beltran vs Jose Pedraza (WBO Lightweight Title) / Dogboe vs Otake (WBO 122 Title)

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Entertaining fight, I had Pedraza 116-111

He went 3-0 after 3 rounds, then Beltran won the 4th to me, Pedraza won the 5th and then it seemed like Beltran turned the tide cause he won the next 3 rounds on my cards. after 8 rounds I had 4-4. Then Pedraza caught his second wind, found his rhythm again and outboxed Beltran to win all 4 of the rest rounds.
Nice win from Pedraza, I think Loma beats him clearly but he might cause Loma some trouble in the first 3-4 rounds with his reach and straight shots until Loma finds out how to get up on him.

:salute: to Dogboe, entertaining young champ and he still gonna improve, I like the idea of him vs Rey Vargas or Daniel Roman. Roman can box nicely it would be interesting to see if Dogboe can catch him, same goes for Rey Vargas who also has the reach and heigh, fights tall too. Last time though... Hova could often get inside of him and tag him with wide shots. That dude is super awkward though and lunges tf in, Dogboe is more conservative than that (not hard...).
 

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Beltran-Pedraza ESPN Triple - Telecast Averaged 532K Viewers

By Keith Idec

ESPN’s boxing ratings slipped Saturday night from the viewership the network attracted the previous week.

Nielsen Media Research revealed Tuesday that ESPN’s three-bout broadcast Saturday night from Glendale, Arizona, was watched by an average audience of 532,000. Its telecast the prior Saturday night, a two-fight show from Atlantic City on August 18, averaged 686,000 viewers.

The main event Saturday night was a lightweight title fight in which Jose Pedraza defeated Ray Beltran by unanimous decision. Puerto Rico’s Pedraza (25-1, 12 KOs) was sharp throughout their 12-round bout, dropped Phoenix’s Beltran (35-8-1, 21 KOs, 1 NC) with an uppercut in the 11th round and won by scores of 117-110, 117-110 and 115-112 to take the WBO 135-pound championship from him.

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The telecast Saturday night from Gila River Arena also included knockout victories by WBO super bantamweight champ Isaac Dogboe and women’s junior lightweight prospect Mikaela Mayer.

Ghana’s Dogboe (20-0, 14 KOs) knocked out Japan’s Hidenori Otake (31-3-3, 14 KOs) in the first round. The 37-year-old Otake hadn’t been knocked out in his 36-fight, 12-year pro career before Dogboe caught him with a left hook that knocked him down very early into their scheduled 12-round, 122-pound title bout.

Otake got up, but Dogboe continued to hurt him. Referee Chris Flores stepped in to stop the bout 2:18 into it.

Mayer, a 2016 Olympian from Los Angeles, knocked down Edina Kiss in the first round and scored a technical-knockout victory when Hungary’s Kiss (14-8, 8 KOs) decided not to leave her corner for the fourth round.

Below are the average ratings for each of promoter Top Rank’s five shows that aired live on the network this summer:

Date/Site Main Event Viewers

August 25 Jose Pedraza-Ray Beltran 532,000
Glendale, Arizona

August 18 Bryant Jennings-Alexander Dimitrenko 686,000
Atlantic City

July 14 Regis Prograis-Juan Jose Velasco 518,000
New Orleans

July 7 Egidijus Kavaliauskas-Juan Abreu 534,000
Fresno, California

June 30 Gilberto Ramirez-Alexis Angulo 632,000
Oklahoma City
 
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