Ray Beltran won the vacant WBO Lightweight title with a tough 12-round unanimous decision over Paulus Moses at the Grand Sierra Hotel in Reno, Nevada.
It was a grueling contest that saw Moses have some success with hard rights and a nice jab that cut Beltran under both eyes. Beltran swept the latter part of the fight, and that titlted the scores in his favor to the tune of 117-111 twice and 116-112.
Beltran, 134 1/2 lbs of Phoenix, AZ is now 35-7-2. Moses, 134 lbs of Namibia is now 40-4.
Egis Kavaliauskas remained undefeated and stopped former interim world titlist David Avanesyan in round six of their scheduled ten round welterweight bout.
Kavaliauskas landed a hard right in round six that hurt Avanesyan. Kavaliauskas jumped on his prey, and landed a hard flurry of power shots and the fight was stopped.
Kavaliauskas, 146 1/2 lbs of Lithuania is now 19-0 with 16 knockouts. Avanesyan, 147 lbs of Russia is 23-3.
2016 Olympic Silver Medal winner Shakur Stevenson remained undefeated by winning an eight-round unanimous decision over Juan Tapia in a featherweight bout.
Stevenson, 125 1/2 lbs of Alexandria, VA won all cards 80-72 and is now 5-0. Tapia, 124 1/2 lbs of Brownsville, TX is 8-2.
In a battle of undefeated lightweights, 2016 Olympic Gold Medal winner Robson Conceicao won a six-round unanimous decision over Ignacio Holguin.
Conceicao, 132 1/2 lbs of Bahia, BRA won by scores of 60-52 on two cards and 60-54 and is now 6-0. Holguin, 132 3/4 lbs of San Antonio, TX is 4-1-1.
Sagadat Rachmankulov made a successful pro debut by stopping Noel Esqueda in round five of their scheduled six-round welterweight bout.
Rachmankulov hammered Esqueda with a hard left hook and a left to the top of the head that had Esqueda buckling, and referee Jay Nady stopped the bout at 1:51.
Rachmankulov, 148 lbs of Kazakhstan is 1-0 with 1 knockout. Esqueda, 148 lbs of Wichita, KS is 8-5-2.
Former world title challenger Bryant Jennings dropped Akhror Muralimov four times en roue to a 3rd round stoppage in a scheduled eight-round heavyweight bout.
In round one, Jennings scored two knockdowns. In round two, Jennings dropped Muralimov with a right hand. Jennings dropped Muralimov with a hard right in round three. He finished it off with another knockdown, and the fight was stopped at 1:22.
Jennings of Philadelphia is now 22-2. Muralimov is 16-4.
ALexander Besputin stopped Wesley Tucker at 3:00 of round five of their scheduled eight-round welterweight bout.
Besputin is 9-0. Tucker is 14-2.
