A field of 128 fighters is now down to 16 in the WBC Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Phase 3 of the tournament took place Wednesday, with 64 fighters competing across the featherweight, junior welterweight, middleweight and heavyweight divisions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The winners of each fight advance to Phase 4, which is the semifinals that will take place in October.<\/p>\n
Each fight is six three-minute rounds. Fights cannot end in a draw, and the bouts are scored on a qualitative scoring system if a fight is even at the end.<\/p>\n
Scroll down for all of the Phase 3 results\u2026<\/p>\n
Heavyweight<\/p>\n
Keaton Gomes (13-3, 11 KOs) def. Devon Young (9-1, 7 KOs) by TKO1<\/p>\n
Kevin Ramirez (10-0-2, 4 KOs) def. Piotr Lacz (14-0-1, 10 KOs) by decision* \u2014 scoring had to go to the WBC after the three official judges and the enhanced scoring system had it a split draw.<\/p>\n
Ahmed Krnjic (6-0, 4 KOs) def. Tsotne Rogava (12-1, 8 KOs) by MD6 (57-57, 58-56, 58-56)<\/p>\n
Dante Stone (21-1, 13 KOs) def. Youness Baalla (2-2-1, 2 KOs) by UD6 ( 59-55, 58-56, 58-56)<\/p>\n
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Middleweight<\/p>\n
Derek Pomerleau (14-0, 11 KOs) def. Dmytro Rybalko (5-1-1, 2 KOs) by TKO2<\/p>\n
Dylan Biggs (16-1, 9 KOs) def. Pedro Frolov (12-2, 4 KOs) by UD6 (59-54, 58-55, 57-56)<\/p>\n
Carlos Sinisterra (13-1, 10 KOs) def. Ephrem Bariko (12-1, 6 KOs) by KO3<\/p>\n
Lancelot De La Chapelle (17-1-2, 5 KOs) def. Emiliano Aguillon (13-0-2, 7 KOs) by decision* \u2014 scoring had to go to the WBC after the three official judges and the enhanced scoring system had it a draw.<\/p>\n
Junior welterweight<\/p>\n
Danylo Lozan (15-0, 9 KOs) def. Sanatali Toltayev (4-1, 2 KOs) by majority technical decision (47-47, 48-46, 48-46) after five rounds due to a cut from an accidental headbutt.<\/p>\n
Carlo Utria (12-0, 10 KOs) def. Spencer Wilcox (12-1, 5 KOs) by UD6 (60-54, 60-54, 60-54)<\/p>\n
Mujibillo Tursunov (8-0, 2 KOs) def. Misael Cabrera (17-3-1, 11 KOs) by UD6 (58-55, 57-56, 57-56)<\/p>\n
Ntethelelo Nkosi (10-2, 5 KOs) def. Fiorenzo Priolo (11-1, 5 KOs) by UD6 (59-54, 59-54, 59-54)<\/p>\n
Featherweight<\/p>\n
Yoni Valverde def. (16-0, 3 KOs) def. Yusuf Adeniji (16-1, 10 KOs) by UD6 (59-55, 58-56, 58-56)<\/p>\n
Bekizizwe Matise (8-1-1, 3 KOs) def. Iman Lee (14-0-1, 8 KOs) by decision* \u2014 Matise won via the enhanced scoring decision after the three judges scored the fight a majority draw.<\/p>\n
Muhamet Qamili (16-0-1, 7 KOs) def Troy Nash (5-0-1, 1 KO) by decision* \u2014 Qamili won via the enhanced scoring decision after the three judges scored the fight a split draw.<\/p>\n
Brandon Mejia (11-0, 9 KOs) def. Ayubkhon Bakhtiyorov (8-1, 5 KOs) by UD6 (60-54, 59-55, 59-55)<\/p>\n
*Fights that are scored a draw by the three official judges count as a draw on the fighters\u2019 records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A field of 128 fighters is now down to 16 in the WBC Grand Prix. Phase 3 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,1151,1144,1150,1149,1142,711,1145,1146,1147,1148,1143,49,48,1156,1155,1138,1136,1137,1153,1139,1135,1157,1152,82,1154,1134,1141,1140],"class_list":["post-67044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}