Unheralded 6:1 underdog Jessica McCaskill (9-2, 3 KOs) became undisputed female welterweight champion by upsetting previously unbeaten Cecilia Braekhus (36-1, 9 KOs) by majority decision in a temporary ring on the streets of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. McCaskill got off to a good start, but Braekhus came back in the second half of the fight. Scores were 95-95, 97-93, 97-94. McCaskill also spoiled Braekhus’ bid for her 26th successful title defense to break Joe Louis’ record, which was highly promoted in the lead up to the fight.
In a final eliminator for the WBA super welterweight title, Israil Madrimov (6-0, 5 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Eric Walker (20-3, 9 KOs). Madrimov seemingly knocked out Walker with a left hook in round nine, but referee Gary Ritter ruled Madrimov knocked down Walker with his shoulder and called a foul. Walker was given five minutes to recover and managed to continue. Madrimov dropped Walker again in round twelve, but was also deducted a point for a low blow. Scores were 116-110, 116-111, 116-110.
Unbeaten middleweight Nikita “White Chocolate” Ababiy (9-0, 6 KOs) won a six round unanimous decision over Jarvis Williams (8-3-1, 5 KOs). Both fighters came out throwing bombs in round one, then Ababiy pretty much took over. Scores were 59-55, 59-55, 58-56.
Unbeaten super lightweight Shakhram Giyasov (10-0, 8 KOs) scored a third round KO over late sub Wiston Campos (31-8-6, 19 KOs). A body shot finished Campos. Time was 3:00.
Unbeaten featherweight Raymond Ford (6-0, 2 KOs) outpointed Eric Manriquez (7-11-1, 3 KOs) over six rounds. Scores were 59-54, 60-53, 60-53. Manriquez down in round three.
“Unheralded Jessica McCaskill”
Are you talking about #1 rated super lightweight unified world champion Jessica McCaskill? Doesn’t sound very “unheralded” to me. The world’s best super lightweight beat the world’s best welterweight. Sorry, not every American winning a title is a “Rocky” story.
I see your point here. If she’s unheralded, then basically every female boxer is… except for maybe 2 or 3.
Brickhouse was robbed and that Walker/Madrimov referre is an incompetent moron!
yes this will forever be known as the tulsa screw job no way in hell Mccaskill won no way thats just sad that Boxing still to this day cant get their shit together this should be known for the night the record was broken by a female not another boxing screw job
I didn’t watch it all, but it sounds like an Eddie Hearn Matchroom special. Rather like the John Ryder v Callum Smith fight.
ZZZZZZZ-BUUUURP-ZZZZZZ!!!!
Long live Joe Louis!!
The Ghost of Joe was hovering over the ring. God forbid a woman who beat a bunch of nobodies should break the record of one of the all time greats.
joe Louis is a legend but he to had the famous “bum of the month” club fighters littered on his resume regardless she tied it before getting screwed over
The Braekhus-McCaskill fight was close, but I thought Braekhus won the fight. Braekhus has much better form and throws straight punches. McCaskill has terrible form mixing occasional straight punches with wild swings that come out of left field. She throws those wild swings while ducking to the right and looking at the ring canvas. She also missed with many of those wild swings.
I thought McCaskill won the early rounds by outhustling Braekhus, but Braekhus came back strongly in the second half of the fight and dominated the action. McCaskill was really sloppy in that second half and was largely ineffective. She did appear to win the last round by just working harder, which probably gave her the fight. The two scores in her favor were way too wide. She threw a lot more punches but missed quite a few of them. I prefer the quality of the punches by Braekhus over the activity of McCaskill.
It was a sad way for Braekhus’ record to end since I thought she did enough to win. I would favor Katie Taylor to dominate any future match with McCaskill.
I also thought 10 2-minute rounds for a championship fight is ridiculous. The rounds should either be lengthened to 3 minutes, or the number of rounds increased to 12. Those increases should provide a lot of clarity on who actually deserves to be champion. It was strange to hear the announcers speak of the final two rounds of a 10-round fight as “championship rounds.”
i agree with thought Breakhus won a very close decision she technically way more clean and crisp then the wild swinging McCaskill whats really funy though is Taylor wanting to fight a bigger Breakhus rather than accepting the challenge from the smaller 7 weight division world champion Amanda Serrano maybe its the fact that Serranos 27kos has something to do with it lol
McCaskill definitely won in my opinion but neither fighter looked good. She was the busier fighter and landed the bigger punches. Both were sloppy and missed a lot.
as a professional its NOT how busy you are or how many punches you throw thats for the amatuers as a pro its about clean effective strikes and ring generalship which CLEARLY did none of Tulsa screw job is what this was plain and simple
I knew she’d do it. So many times when a fighter is on the brink of breaking a record, the plan gets foiled. Congrats!
yea i think Pacquiao understands best what its like to get screwed over best but hell if she had lived in vegas and fought in vegas there would have been screw job just ask Mayweather lol
Braekhus is likely the most humble boxer I’ve seen. #ROLEMODEL
No, Joe Louis was in no danger…men’s and women’s boxing are two ENTIRELY different sports. It is a TRAVESTY for a major site to tout this INSANITY.
The lousy thing was referee Gary Ritter, the worst I ´ve seen in many years of boxing. He has no idea of his work.