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Boxing winsider results: Armando Barbier Tops Ricardo Jiminez; Andres Martinez Bests Nadim Salloum

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1 year ago

September 20, 2025

By: Sean Crose

2-0 Armando Barbier received 0-2-1 Ricardo Jiminez in a welterweight romance planned for the 4th. The fight was on the Fifth Night card with Midtown Manhattan. The first was the process of feeling both men, and Barbier is looking for opportunities, and Jiminez is working on the Southpaw stabout. The second was a much faster romance from Barbier Landing Well. The man moved briefly to Southpaw in third place before he returned to the Orthodox attitude. In the last round Jimenez hit the mat – although she was considered to be knocking down. He got up and both men went to rinse, often in close quarters. Indeed, for any of the men it was complex to land spotless on the other. With this in mind, Jiminez was tightly marked before the last bell. However, he remained on his feet.

The judges finally ruled in favor of or Barbier, through a divided decision that improved their record to 3-0.

Then 5-4 Andres Martinez accepted 13-2 Nadim Sallou in a slight heavyweight plan planned for 6. Martinez was very aggressive throughout the first-aggressive one that he dropped Salloum towards the end of Round. Salloou was able to defeat the count just before the end of the round. Martinez immediately went to the fracture, but Salloou remained on his feet, until he looked like Martinez was starting to gas a little.

It looked like Martinez to the third, he was exhausted. He still had his explosions and threw with bad intentions, but Salloou landed alone, and also seemed to have more energy. The fourth was a high octane matter. Martinez was a clearly stronger man who landed with better blows, but there was no doubt that the man was breathing challenging. Things remained energetic in fifth place – but it was clear that tired or not, Martinez successfully surprised his man. The last round was a legitimate Knock. It wasn’t nice, but the viewer attracted the attention of.

When everything was said and done, the judges ruled in favor of Martinez using a divided decision.

George Arias

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Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyus Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News

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3 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyu's Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News"

Tim Tszyu seeks to become Australia’s third multi-divisional boxing world champion when he competes for Erislandy Lara’s WBA middleweight title next month, and ahead of the action, trainer Robert Garcia has offered his thoughts on the fight.

Tszyu lost his WBO super-welterweight title in a defeat to Sebastian Fundora back in 2024 and twice failed to reclaim 154lb honours, both against Bakhram Murtazaliev and in a rematch with Fundora.

Since then, the Aussie has stepped up to middleweight and scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr earlier this yearand now, the 32-year-old could join lead trainer Jeff Fenech and Liam Paro as his nation’s third two-weight world champion, if he can trump 43-year-old.

Speaking with ProBox TVRobert Garcia, who trains a potential future Tszyu opponent in Vergil Ortiz, admitted that he is leaning towards the home fighter, but noted that Lara will not be phased by competing in the challenger’s backyard.

“We can probably lean towards Tim Tsyzu because he is fighting at home, in front of his hometown, but Lara is not the fighter that brings in a lot of fans following him.

“He doesn’t have a following, he is not one that is going to sell out arenas, so even if it is in the United States, it is likely that most of the people are going to be [there] for Tim Tszyu because Australians do travel and Tim Tszyu has a lot of fans.

“For Lara, going to Australia is like going to Las Vegas or going to New York because he never has that following anyways. Anywhere he goes, he is going to be against the crowd. So, I think for him it is going to be one of those performances where it doesn’t make a difference if he is going to Tim Tsyzu’s hometown.”

Tszyu-Lara takes place at the Cbus Super Stadium in Queensland, Australia on Sunday 13 December.

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Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight

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3 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight"

Deontay Wilder’s former head coach Malik Scott has delivered a knockout prediction for the American’s upcoming showdown with Jai Opetaia.

The pair will square off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11, with Opetaia making his heavyweight debut on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua.

Despite him being the naturally smaller man, many are favouring the Australian – a former two-time world cruiserweight champion – to defeat his 10-years-older opponent.

It is, after all, generally accepted that Wilder has declined significantly since his trilogy bout with Furywho survived two knockdowns and scored an 11th-round knockout in their 2021 encounter.

Back then, Wilder had just joined forces with Scott, his former opponent, and the pair maintained their fighter-trainer relationship through subsequent defeats against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.

With Wilder now operating under different coaches, though, Scott has shared a balanced view of the Opetaia fight with Seconds Out.

“The fight’s got dynamite written all over it. Jai Opetaia is very dangerous, but he’s a smaller man that’s been hurt by smaller men than Deontay, slower men than Deontay.

“I’ve never seen Opetaia get hit by nobody like Deontay; I’ve seen Deontay get hit by bigger punchers than Opetaia. [But] one thing we can expect in this fight is a knockout.

“The name of the fight is ‘bad intentions’ – at least that’s what I’m calling it, because that’s what they share in common. What they share in common is mentality – they both are trying to hurt you.”

While he stopped short of predicting a winner, it is perhaps telling that Scott, despite his relationship with Wilder, has not explicitly favoured him to win by knockout.