By: Sean Crose

The WBC master of medium weight Carlos Adames, 24-1, defended his title belt on Saturday before 21-0 Hamzah Sheeraz in Saudi Arabia. The fight was scheduled for 12 championship rounds. The first was a process for every warrior, because both men were strategically patient. The higher Sheeraz was able to keep his man at a distance in the second. Adames tried to get to his man in the third. Sheeraz still did a good job, keeping his man’s range in the fourth.

Until the fifth it was worth wondering how long Sheeraz can consistently keep a distance from Adames, because the fight was scheduled for a full 12 rounds. Adames could finally get to his man in the sixth. Did Sheeraz leisurely down or did he just remove the round? Adames kept the pressure in seventh place. Adames caught his man in eighth place. Sheeraz landed well. Then he returned to the defensive movement.

Things remained close to ninth place. Together with the upcoming rounds of the championship, it could still be everyone’s fight. The tenth was intriguing because Sheeraz was able to keep Adamas on their reach. Sheeraz fought closely in eleventh. It may not be an exhilarating match, but it was definitely a high level. They were professionals conducting their trade and fascinating it was that the fight was developing. The twelfth and last round recorded a rather tempered performance of Sheeraz, which may not work in his favor.

After all that was said and made, the fight was recognized as the division by judges by the results 115-114, 118-110 and 114-114.

Artur Beterbav is the first defense of his undisputed lightweight heavyweight championships against Dmitry Bivol, in the main event full of boxing card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday (Dazn PPV, 10:30 ET)

Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KO) united all four main titles with the victory of the majority towards Bivol in October. Bivol (23-1, 12 KO) began sturdy, but disappeared at the end. Beterbiev won the last three rounds in all three results of results to win 115-113, 116-112 and 114-114 in a very humorous duel.

Unlike the first fight, Beterbiev enters the Saturday rematch as a petite favorite (-120 for the ESPN plant). Beterbiev took at least one of the lanes from November 11, 2017-uncommon seven years of reign as a master.

Also on the card former heavyweight champion Joseph Parker and the best pretender Martin Bakole will meet at the WBO Heavyweight short-lived title. Parker was to face the IBF champion Daniel Dubois, but Dubois was forced to withdraw from illness on Thursday.

Parker (35-3, 23 KO), won the WBO Pas in 2016 after defeating Andy Ruiz Jr. He did two defense before he lost the unanimous decision of Anthony Joshua in March 2018 by Jared Anderson in August with the victory of KO in the fifth round in Los Angeles.

To complete a seven -wage main card, Shakur Stevenson takes on a tardy replacement for Josh Padley for the lithe title of WBC Stevenson. Carlos Adames places its Medium WBC belt on the line against Hamzah Sheeraz, and Vergil Ortiz Jr. And Israil Madrimov will fight for the free short-lived title Munior Midor Midor WBC. There are also two fights for short-lived titles. Joshua Buatsi defends their lithe belt WBO, as well as Zhilei Zhang and Agit Kabayel will fight for the free WBC Tychy short-lived title.

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