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Michael Rothstein
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Michael Rothstein
ESPN Staff Writer
- Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com
- Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
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Ben Baby
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Ben Baby
ESPN Staff Writer
- ESPN Staff Writer
- Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News
- University of North Texas graduate
After winning titles at featherweight and junior lightweight, Shakur Stevenson moved up once again, this time to face Shuichiro Yoshino in a 12-round WBC lightweight title eliminator in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday. Stevenson finished Yoshino in the sixth round of a one-sided bout to become the mandatory challenger to the WBC lightweight title.
Stevenson (20-0, 10 KOs) was stripped of his WBC and WBO junior lightweight belts after missing weight ahead of his fight against Robson Conceicao in September. Stevenson defeated Conceicao by unanimous decision and moved up to lightweight, a division dominated by undisputed champion Devin Haney.
Also on Saturday, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez defeated Cristian Gonzalez to win the vacant WBO flyweight title in the main event of a DAZN card at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas.
After defending the WBC junior bantamweight title twice, including a unanimous decision victory over Israel Gonzalez in September, Rodriguez (17-0, 11 KOs) moved down one division to fight for the vacant WBO flyweight title and achieved his goal.
Michael Rothstein and Ben Baby recapped all the action from both fight cards.
Source: www.espn.com