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A roundup of the past weeks notable boxing results from around the world:Sunday at Zama, JapanNaoya Monster Inoue TKO10 Petchbarngborn Kokietgym Retains a junior bantamweight title Records:?Inoue (11-0, 9 KOs); Kokietgym (38-8-1, 18 KOs)Rafaels remarks:?In front of his hometown fans, Inoue, already a two-division world titleholder at age 23, retained his 115-pound belt for the third time as he beat down Kokietgym, the 31-year-old mandatory challenger from Thailand. Harold Carmichael Youth Jersey . Inoue ended Kokietgyms 16-fight winning streak in a one-sided beating. Inoue, who also won a world title at junior flyweight before moving up two weight classes to win his second belt, won every round in the dominant outing before putting him away at the end of the 10th round. Inoue finally knocked him down just before the bell ended the round, culminating an onslaught of punches with a finishing right hand to the chin that dropped him hard on his rear end. Kokietgym struggled to his feet, barely beating the count, but he was in terrible shape and referee Mark Nelson waved off the fight at 3 minutes, 3 seconds.Also on the card, bantamweight contender Takuma Inoue (8-0, 2 KOs), the 20-year-old younger brother of main event winner Naoya Inoue and a seven-time Japanese high school champion, survived the first knockdown of his career in the first round and pounded out a unanimous decision against Froilan Saludar (23-2-1, 14 KOs), 23, of the Philippines, in a crowd-pleasing battle. Inoue knocked down Saludar in the eighth and ninth rounds en route to winning by scores of 97-90, 97-90 and 96-91. With the victory, Inoue may get a crack at bantamweight world titleholder Marlon Tapales (29-2, 12 KOs), of the Philippines, in December.Saturday at Taguig City, Philippines?Jerwin Ancajas?W12?McJoe Arroyo Wins a junior bantamweight title Scores:?118-109, 117-110, 115-112 Records: Ancajas (25-1-1, 16 KOs); Arroyo (17-1, 8 KOs)Rafaels remarks:?Mandatory challenger Ancajas, a 24-year-old fighting in front of his home fans in the Philippines, took a big step up in opposition level against fellow southpaw Arroyo and pulled the upset to claim a 115-pound world title. In doing so, he won his 12th fight in a row and became the first boxer promoted by Manny Pacquiaos Pacquiao Promotions to win a world title; Pacquiao invited him to his home to celebrate afterwards.Arroyo, 30, of Puerto Rico, won a vacant belt by 10th-round technical decision against Arthur Villanueva in July 2015 when Villanueva suffered a cut from an accidental head butt and could not continue. But Arroyo had not fought in the 14 months since when he met Ancajas for his first defense. The aggressive Ancajas surprisingly dominated most of the fight. He rocked Arroyo with a left hand in the sixth round and knocked him down in the eighth round with a left to the body followed by a right to the head. Ancajas appeared to have scored another knockdown with a left hand to the body in the ninth round but referee Gene Del Bianco ruled it a slip. Knockdown or not, Arroyo was hurt as Ancajas rolled to his biggest victory.Saturday at San AntonioDarwin Price Jr.?TKO7?Javontae Starks Junior welterweight Records:?Price (11-0, 6 KOs); Starks (13-2, 7 KOs)Rafaels remarks:?In the Premier Boxing Champions main event on NBC Sports Net, Price, 27, of Houston, turned in a strong performance as he handed Starks, 27, of Winter Haven, Florida, his second defeat in a row. Price said before the fight that his jab would be the key and he was correct. He controlled the fight primarily with a strong jab, which he doubled and tripled, before connecting with painful power shots. Price, who is trained by star trainer Ronnie Shields, dropped Starks, who was fighting for the first time in 11 months, to the seat of his pants with a right hand, following a double jab, in the third round. In the seventh round, Price got to Starks again with his jab and came behind it with a right hand that hurt him. Then another right hand hurt Starks and Price continued to fire away until referee Mark Calo-Oy stepped in to stop the bout at 1 minute, 52 seconds.Kent Cruz?W8 Rickey Edwards Junior welterweight Scores: 77-74, 77-73 (twice) Records:?Cruz(11-0, 6 KOs); Edwards (11-1, 3 KOs)Rafaels remarks:?Cruz, 23, of St. Louis, was a late replacement opponent for Edwards but took care of business. Cruz dropped Edwards with a right hand in the second round. He had Edwards, a 26-year-old former New Jersey Golden Gloves champion from Paterson, New Jersey, who fights out of Houston, in trouble but he survived. Cruz, however, maintained control for most of the bout and was rewarded with a nice victory over a fellow prospect.In another televised bout, junior featherweight David Perez (8-0, 4 KOs), 20, of Houston, dropped Gustavo Molina (23-13, 9 KOs), 27, of Mexico, with a hard left hand to the head in the third round and then used a big right hand to the jaw to spectacularly knock him out cold?-- face first -- at 2 minutes, 35 seconds in the sixth and final round.Also on the card, middleweight Junior Castillo (11-1, 9 KOs), a 30-year-old who represented the Dominican Republic in the 2012 Olympics, rebounded from an eight-round decision loss to Justin DeLoach on June 25, to win a difficult six-round decision against Josue Obando (14-11-1, 11 KOs), 26, of Mexico, via scores of 60-54 (very questionable!), 58-56 and 58-56.Saturday at Mexico CityCarlos Chuko Diaz?W10 Samuel Gonzalez Lightweight Scores:?97-93 (three times) Records: Diaz (21-0, 10 KOs); Gonzalez (11-4, 8 KOs)Rafaels remarks:?Diaz, 21, of Mexico, a good-looking up-and-comer, rolled to a unanimous decision against Gonzalez, of Venezuela, in the beIN Sports-televised main event. Diaz, who handed Gonzalez his second loss in a row and third defeat in his last four fights, survived a rough patch in the fifth round of an otherwise solid performance.In the co-feature, lightweight journeyman Gabriel Francisco Pina (13-12-5, 5 KOs) pulled the upset in an eight-round decision win against Mexican countryman and former two-time junior lightweight world title challenger Miguel Beltran Jr. (31-5, 21 KOs), 27, winning on scores of 77-75, 77-75 and 77-76.Friday at Los AngelesAntonio Gutierrez W10 Jorge Melendez Middleweight Scores:?97-92 (twice), 96-93 Records:?Gutierrez (21-2-1, 9 KOs); Melendez (29-7-1, 27 KOs)Rafaels remarks:?It was a Mexico vs. Puerto Rico main event on Golden Boy Promotions LA Fight Club card on Estrella TV as Gutierrez, 22, of Mexico, pounded out a hard-fought decision win against Puerto Rican veteran Melendez, 27, much to the delight of the pro-Gutierrez crowd. Gutierrez, who was coming off a 10-round decision loss to former two-time middleweight world title challenger Gabriel Rosado in June, handed Melendez his second loss in a row and his fourth defeat in his past five bouts.In the second round, Melendez, who is a very good puncher, knocked Gutierrez down with a right hand but could not finish him. Gutierrez rallied and applied pressure for much of the fight as he took it to Melendez in a fan-friendly bout. He opened a cut near Melendezs left eye in the ninth round and got the well-deserved nod on the judges scorecards.Christian Chimpa Gonzalez?KO2 Jonathan Corrales Lightweight Records:?Gonzalez (15-0, 13 KOs); Corrales (8-4-2, 3 KOs)Rafaels remarks:?Gonzalez, 20, of Buena Park, California, is a solid prospect who seems to be getting better and better. He dropped Corrales, a Phoenix-based Mexico native, with a pair of left hooks in the first round and was in charge all the way until a right-left combination floored him again in the second round, causing referee Wayne Hedgpeth to waive off the fight without a count at 1 minute, 57 seconds.Also on the card, junior lightweight prospect Lamont Roach Jr. (12-0, 4 KOs), 21, of Washington, D.C., dropped Mario Antonio Macias (28-20-14 KOs), 31, of Mexico, in the first, second and third rounds before referee Zac Young waved off the fight at seven seconds into the third round of their scheduled eight-rounder. Jerome Brown Youth Jersey . -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again it will be a strong World Cup favourite. Shareef Miller Womens Jersey . But the quarterback hopes to stay involved in football after officially calling it quits Tuesday. "Id love to look at those opportunities as they arise," Pierce said in an interview from his Winnipeg eatery. http:///...-wentz-black-jersey/ . A lawyer for MLB, Matthew Menchel, confirmed Wednesday the league dropped its case against Biogenesis of America, its owner Anthony Bosch and several other individuals. The lawsuit had accused Biogenesis and Bosch of conspiring with players to violate their contracts by providing them with banned performance-enhancing substances. WASHINGTON -- Tayler Hill scored 21 points, Leilani Mitchell added 20 points and the duo combined to make nine of Washingtons season-high 16 3-pointers in the Mystics 118-81 victory over the short-handed Chicago Sky on Wednesday night.It was the most points scored by Washington in franchise history -- topping a 109-106 three-overtime victory over Connecticut this season. The Mystics shot 60.8 percent from the field, including 16 of 28 from distance.Chicago forward Elena Delle Donne, the top scorer in the WNBA at 22.1 points per game, played just eight minutes and sat out the entirre second half because of a thumb injury. JJ Arcega-Whiteside Jersey. Emma Meesseman added 17 points and Stefanie Dolson had 16 points for Washington (12-17). The Mystics trail Phoenix and Seattle, which beat New York on Wednesday, by a half-game for the final playoff spot.Washington made 10 3-pointers in the first half and led 56-39.Courtney Vandersloot had 17 points and eight assists, and Cappie Pondexter added 16 points for Chicago (15-14), which sits in fifth place. ' ' '