Referee Benjy Esteves stopped the contest at the :44 mark of round seven.

Luevano threw a few more punches over the course of the fight but JuanMa had the upper hand in each round due to his power shots. Luevano got a lot of good work done against Lopez, who is also the WBO jr. featherweight champ. But the heavy hands of Lopez carried the day, both in the scoring of each round and in ending the fight suddenly .

TWO - Clottey OK, comes out throwing a lot with the left, uppercuts and jabs. Cotto now firing with both hands...

ONE – Cautious start. Nothing for first 30 seconds, now a clinch. Oscar misses with big left on the break. Big left by Pac. Oscar backs off. Good exchange in the center. Pac misses with a wide left. Good straight left by Pac. Oscar’s face is red. Oscar nails him on the ropes, Manny moves away. Good left by Manny. Combo by Oscar near the bell.

10-9, P

TWO – Good exchange to start the round. They trade big shots, war in the center of the ring. Good straight right by Oscar. Good double jab...

One – V coming forward but M lands the first two solid shots, both lefts. V misses with a sweeping left hook and M flurries. Solid left to body by M. Halfway, V hasn’t landed anything significant. They trade...

This time it was a more tactical fight that went all 12 rounds. No titles were involved as the fight took place at 166 pounds.

Jermain Taylor entering the ring.

Kelly Pavlik entering the ring.

Round One - Big Pavlik chant. They trade big lefts. They're right in the center of the ring. Taylor jabbing well...

(Feb. 5, 2010) – World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champ Edwin Valero and WBC 135-pound interim titleholder Antonio DeMarco both weighed in at 135 pounds during Friday’s weigh in the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

The hard-hitting Valero will face the once-beaten DeMarco in the main event this Saturday, Feb. 6, on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) from the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

Valero (26-0, 26 KOs), of Merida, Venezuela, is a two-time champ who has knocked out 100 percent of his opponents. He will be making the second defense of his WBC title against Tijuana’s Demarco (23-1-1, 17 KOs).

In the 10-round co-feature, Luis Carlos Abregu (28-0, 23 KOs), of Salta, Argentina will meet Richard Gutierrez (24-3, 14 KO’s), of Miami, Florida, via Arjona, Colombia, in a welterweight bout. Both Abregu and Gutierrez weighed in at the 147 pound welterweight limit.

The event is promoted by Gary Shaw Productions, LLC and will take place during the celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence.

Nick Diaz won the Strikeforce welterweight championship Saturday night with a dominant performance against Marius Zaromskis in Miami, FL. Zaromskis, the current Dream champion, decked Diaz in ther opening moments, but Diaz proved to have too much height and reach for the Lithuanian.

Official time of the stoppage was 4:38 of the first round.

Diaz got up from the knockdown and avoided any damaging shots, then mounted a fierce, consistent attack for which Zaromskis had no answers. As Zaromskis ran out of gas, Diaz teed off to both the body and head until a right hand put Zaromskis down. The bout was stopped shortly after.

Also on the Strikeforce show, Herschel Walker made his much hyped debut a succesful one as he stopped Greg Nagy with strikes in the third round. Walker, the former college and pro football star, stepped into the cage for the first time at age 47 and was in control of the fight throughout.

Nagy, in his third match, found himself on the mat...

Post-fight press release:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Jan. 29, 2010) – Undefeated prospect Chris Avalos registered a spectacular fourth round TKO over previously once-beaten Jose Nieves at 2:20 in the main event of Friday’s ShoBox: The New Generation from the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, N.M.

Hometown favorite and unbeaten junior lightweight Archie Ray Marquez scored a unanimous decision victory (79-72, 80-71, 77-74) over the tough Derrick Campos in front of an energized crowd in Friday’s co-feature.

The event was promoted by Gary Shaw Productions, LLC.

Avalos (15-0, 12 KOs), of Lancaster, Calif., lived up to his billing as an aggressive, exciting fighter, but was out-boxed by Nieves (17-2-3, 8 KOs), of Puerto Rico, in the opening round....

May 1 is the agreed-upon date for the much-rumored Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley fight to take place, according to an announcement on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. Mayweather has been looking for an opponent since his superfight with Manny Pacquaio blew up over Mayweather's demands that Pacquaio submit to Olympic-style drug testing.

Pacquiao is now signed to fight Joshua Clottey on March 13th.

Fighting Mosley will serve two purposes for Mayweather...

Jessie Brinkley (35-5, 23 KO's) stood up to a fierce opening assault from power punching Curtis Stevens and floored Stevens twice to win a unanimous decision in their super middleweight contest Friday night. ESPN2 televised the bout from Reno, NV on Friday Night Fights.

Stevens (21-3, 15 KO's) had promised to stop Brinkley in 50 seconds and attempted to do just that with huge power punches from the opening bell. Brinkley was marked under the right eye but weathered the first-round storm.

By the third round Brinkley was taking Stevens' shots very well and pressing his own attack behind multiple jabs. As Stevens shifted from full-on offense to defense, he didn't appear to have an answer for Brinkley's attack.

The right hand got Stevens in trouble in the sixth as Brinkley landed a series of shots to the head that drove Stevens to the ropes and eventually down to the canvas. Stevens looked very discouraged at that point and with Brinkley's hometown fans going insane it looked like the fight was nearly over when the bell rang to end the round.

Stevens came back with his power attack over the second half of the fight but Brinkley was in control the rest of the way. A 12th round knockdown capped the big win for Brinkley as the judges ruled in his favor 119-107, 118-108 and 117-109.

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