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A community portal about Boxing with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Boxing, also called pugilism, prizefighting or the sweet science, is a sport and martial art in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds". In both Olympic and professional divisions, the combatants avoid their opponent's punches while trying to land punches of their own. Points are awarded for clean, solid blows to the legal area on the front of the opponent's body above the waistline, with hits to the head and torso being especially valuable. The fighter with the most points after the scheduled number of rounds is declared the winner. Victory may also be achieved if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the referee counts to ten or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue. For record-keeping purposes, a TKO is usually counted as a knockout when calculating the total knockouts.

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Lopez keeps WBA crown in battle of unbeatens

From: afp.com

Unbeaten Juan Manuel Lopez kept his World Boxing Organization super bantamweight title by stopping previously unbeaten challenger Olivier Lontchi after the ninth round.

Puerto Rican southpaw Lopez improved to 26-0 with his 24th stoppage inside the distance while Lontchi, a Cameroon-born Canadian, fell to 18-1 with two drawn.

Lopez sent Lontchi to the canvas in the second and ninth rounds and the challenger did not leave his corner after the ninth round.

The victory was the fourth by Lopez to defend the crown he won here last June against countryman Daniel Ponce de Leon. Just two months ago, Lopez won on home soil against Gerry Penalosa of the Philippines.

In a super flyweight undercard bout, Mexico's Jorge Arce improved to 52-5 with one drawn with his 40th career knockout, stopping Filipino Fernando Lumacad, 19-2-2, just 35 seconds into the third round.

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