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@mr. smoke weed tell Valdez that Gary Russ is ready to take away his overhead slaps and his strap
Your mans been feasting on slapping stiffs for too long
Around GRJ waist is where Valdez belt belongs
Rushed home from school to watch this live
Once Steve dropped him I've never been more patriotic in my life
Fury 70lbs bigger still had to wrestle, forearm and elbow his way to victory
Your mans been feasting on slapping stiffs for too long
Around GRJ waist is where Valdez belt belongs
Rushed home from school to watch this live
Once Steve dropped him I've never been more patriotic in my life
Fury 70lbs bigger still had to wrestle, forearm and elbow his way to victory
Shawn Porter stops Andre Berto in ninth, earns mandatory title shot
12:24 AM ET
Welterweight Shawn Porter earned the rematch he has so badly wanted against world titleholder Keith Thurman.
Porter, a former titleholder, dominated former two-time titlist Andre Berto in a ninth-round knockout victory before a crowd of 9,118 on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, to win an all-action world title elimination fight.
Charlo stops Hatley to retain junior middleweight belt
Jermell Charlo was not thrilled that he had not fought since last May, but he put that rust aside as he dominated Charles Hatley en route to a sixth-round knockout victory Saturday night.
With the win, Porter earned a mandatory title shot against Thurman, who narrowly outpointed Porter last June to retain his belt and then went on to unify two titles against Danny Garcia on March 4.
Porter (27-2-1, 17 KOs), who looked like he was on a mission from the start, took Berto (31-5, 24 KOs) apart to set up the rematch with Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs).
Fighting for the first time in the 10 months since losing to Thurman, Porter pounded away at Berto, knocking him down twice in a bloody fight in which both men were cut multiple times by accidental head butts as they waged a ferocious inside battle.
"I got to clean up those head butts," Porter said. "We tried to use the whole ring, but sometimes in the heat of the battle, I'm a fighter and Mr. Berto is a fighter as well. Those head butts were just the two of us going in and fighting.
"My intention is never to use my head as a weapon. This was a just very hard-fought battle by both of us and I'm blessed to get the victory."
After a close opening round, Porter took over. He was relentless, regularly forcing Berto to the ropes and going to town with body shots and right hands. When Berto tried to clinch, Porter would have none of it, pushing him away and continuing to fire punches.
Shawn Porter, left, scored two knockdowns of Andre Berto and went on to finish him in the ninth. Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment
In the second round, Porter suffered his first cut, over his left eye, from an accidental head clash, but later in the round he nailed Berto with a right hand for the first knockdown.
He rocked Berto, 33, of Winter Haven, Florida, again in the third round, sending him into the ropes. Berto tried to fight back and had his moments, including in an action-packed fourth round, during which Porter suffered another cut, this time over the right eye from another accidental head butt.
Later in the fourth round, yet another accidental head butt opened a cut over Berto's left eye.
Before the fifth round, referee Mark Nelson asked the ringside doctor to check on Berto's cut, which appeared worse than Porter's. Berto, who was coming off a one-year layoff since knocking out Victor Ortiz in the fifth round of their rematch last April, was also bleeding from his nose.
The cuts were taking their toll on both fighters, who had them checked by ringside doctors before the sixth round. To Porter's credit, he could have complained of vision problems to force the fight to be stopped and sent to the scorecards for a technical decision in a bout he was clearly winning.
But Porter, 29, of Las Vegas, who earned $1 million, fought on and continued to strafe Berto with punches, punishing him to the body and head, especially with his right hand.
The doctor checked Berto's cut again before the ninth round. Moments later, Porter slammed him with a right hand that sent Berto careening into the ropes. The ropes were responsible for keeping Berto on his feet, and Nelson ruled it a knockdown.
When the fight resumed, Porter immediately charged at Berto, whose purse was $1.2 million, and landed a left hook and a hard right hand that sent him falling into the ring post. Nelson jumped in to stop the fight at 1 minute, 31 seconds.
"I have to give him credit, but he's a rough fighter," said Berto, who dropped to 4-5 in his past nine bouts. "He has great skills, but at the same time, he's going to be rough and try to handle me any way he can. I got a lot of head butts, and he did, too. Shawn is a tough competitor. We had a good, competitive fight until the head butts got to be a little too much for me. But I thought it was a really good fight before that."
Porter was leading by wide margins on all three scorecards at the time of the stoppage: 79-71, 78-74 and 78-73. His dominance was illustrated in the CompuBox punch statistics; he landed 175 of 448 blows (39 percent), and Berto landed only 81 of 254 (32 percent).
"Shawn is a warrior. I am so proud of him," said Kenny Porter, Shawn's father and trainer. "Berto is a warrior, too, but we were blessed with the victory. We did what we had to do. Shawn was prepared physically, mentally and emotionally.
"Shawn wanted to send a sign to everyone that he deserves that shot at the title and he is ready for it."
There is a good chance the rematch with Thurman will be Porter's next fight.
"I was just up here wishing he said yes -- that's the fight I want next," Porter said of Thurman, who was ringside for the bout.
Thurman said he is definitely game for a sequel.
"His team was adamant about the rematch, and now he's fought his way to earn that," Thurman said. "We just need to sit down and talk about it. He's hungry. You see the way he fights. It could be a great fight again.
Porter earns Thurman rematch by stopping Berto
12:24 AM ET
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Dan RafaelESPN Senior Writer
Welterweight Shawn Porter earned the rematch he has so badly wanted against world titleholder Keith Thurman.
Porter, a former titleholder, dominated former two-time titlist Andre Berto in a ninth-round knockout victory before a crowd of 9,118 on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, to win an all-action world title elimination fight.
Charlo stops Hatley to retain junior middleweight belt
Jermell Charlo was not thrilled that he had not fought since last May, but he put that rust aside as he dominated Charles Hatley en route to a sixth-round knockout victory Saturday night.
With the win, Porter earned a mandatory title shot against Thurman, who narrowly outpointed Porter last June to retain his belt and then went on to unify two titles against Danny Garcia on March 4.
Porter (27-2-1, 17 KOs), who looked like he was on a mission from the start, took Berto (31-5, 24 KOs) apart to set up the rematch with Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs).
Fighting for the first time in the 10 months since losing to Thurman, Porter pounded away at Berto, knocking him down twice in a bloody fight in which both men were cut multiple times by accidental head butts as they waged a ferocious inside battle.
"I got to clean up those head butts," Porter said. "We tried to use the whole ring, but sometimes in the heat of the battle, I'm a fighter and Mr. Berto is a fighter as well. Those head butts were just the two of us going in and fighting.
"My intention is never to use my head as a weapon. This was a just very hard-fought battle by both of us and I'm blessed to get the victory."
After a close opening round, Porter took over. He was relentless, regularly forcing Berto to the ropes and going to town with body shots and right hands. When Berto tried to clinch, Porter would have none of it, pushing him away and continuing to fire punches.
Shawn Porter, left, scored two knockdowns of Andre Berto and went on to finish him in the ninth. Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment
In the second round, Porter suffered his first cut, over his left eye, from an accidental head clash, but later in the round he nailed Berto with a right hand for the first knockdown.
He rocked Berto, 33, of Winter Haven, Florida, again in the third round, sending him into the ropes. Berto tried to fight back and had his moments, including in an action-packed fourth round, during which Porter suffered another cut, this time over the right eye from another accidental head butt.
Later in the fourth round, yet another accidental head butt opened a cut over Berto's left eye.
Before the fifth round, referee Mark Nelson asked the ringside doctor to check on Berto's cut, which appeared worse than Porter's. Berto, who was coming off a one-year layoff since knocking out Victor Ortiz in the fifth round of their rematch last April, was also bleeding from his nose.
The cuts were taking their toll on both fighters, who had them checked by ringside doctors before the sixth round. To Porter's credit, he could have complained of vision problems to force the fight to be stopped and sent to the scorecards for a technical decision in a bout he was clearly winning.
But Porter, 29, of Las Vegas, who earned $1 million, fought on and continued to strafe Berto with punches, punishing him to the body and head, especially with his right hand.
The doctor checked Berto's cut again before the ninth round. Moments later, Porter slammed him with a right hand that sent Berto careening into the ropes. The ropes were responsible for keeping Berto on his feet, and Nelson ruled it a knockdown.
When the fight resumed, Porter immediately charged at Berto, whose purse was $1.2 million, and landed a left hook and a hard right hand that sent him falling into the ring post. Nelson jumped in to stop the fight at 1 minute, 31 seconds.
"I have to give him credit, but he's a rough fighter," said Berto, who dropped to 4-5 in his past nine bouts. "He has great skills, but at the same time, he's going to be rough and try to handle me any way he can. I got a lot of head butts, and he did, too. Shawn is a tough competitor. We had a good, competitive fight until the head butts got to be a little too much for me. But I thought it was a really good fight before that."
Porter was leading by wide margins on all three scorecards at the time of the stoppage: 79-71, 78-74 and 78-73. His dominance was illustrated in the CompuBox punch statistics; he landed 175 of 448 blows (39 percent), and Berto landed only 81 of 254 (32 percent).
"Shawn is a warrior. I am so proud of him," said Kenny Porter, Shawn's father and trainer. "Berto is a warrior, too, but we were blessed with the victory. We did what we had to do. Shawn was prepared physically, mentally and emotionally.
"Shawn wanted to send a sign to everyone that he deserves that shot at the title and he is ready for it."
There is a good chance the rematch with Thurman will be Porter's next fight.
"I was just up here wishing he said yes -- that's the fight I want next," Porter said of Thurman, who was ringside for the bout.
Thurman said he is definitely game for a sequel.
"His team was adamant about the rematch, and now he's fought his way to earn that," Thurman said. "We just need to sit down and talk about it. He's hungry. You see the way he fights. It could be a great fight again.
Porter earns Thurman rematch by stopping Berto
man y'all missed a hell of a fight between valdez and marriage..that was FOTY quality
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
True, but Porter is can't miss quality
RoidJonesJr
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HD Mini Mike Tyson fight
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Yo Serrano is a 5 division women's champ. That has to be some kinda record 
FOTY Candidate for sure.
Valdez still won clearly to me, but I'm bias. #SmokeSquad delivers another classic.
@yawn your boy GRJ needs to fight more than once a year and come holla at us, that left hook that knocked down Marriaga would have killed #SaunaMan
reservoirdogs
Superstar
always some fukkery around that familyWhat is up with team Fury?
I'll wait to the details before I judge but I would be VERY surprised if it would be off cause of Parker and nt because of some fukkery around team Fury
reservoirdogs
Superstar
somewhat close but clear win imo but the those two cards were absolutely disgusting
reservoirdogs
Superstar
It was after the Porter fight though
SuikodenII
Where's Suikoden VI??????
Yep, broke Miguel Cotto's record for multi division championships for a Puerto Rican fighterYo Serrano is a 5 division women's champ. That has to be some kinda record
