" Terence Crawford (right) hits Viktor Postol during their WBC-WBO junior welterweight title unification boxing bout in Las Vegas on Saturday. Photo: IC
Unbeaten Terence Crawford punched his way to a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision over Viktor Postol on Saturday to unify the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and World Boxing Council (WBC) junior welterweight world titles.
Crawford
http://www.washingtoncapitalsteamstore.com/adidas-ilya-samsonov-jersey , who improved to 29-0 with 20 knockouts, dropped Postol twice in the fifth round to seize control of the bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with two judges scoring it 118-107 for the American and the third seeing it 117-108.
In handing Postol his first defeat in 29 fights, Crawford not only added the Ukrainian's WBC belt to his own WBO title, he put himself in line for a potential date with Manny Pacquiao in the Filipino's return to the ring likely later this year in Las Vegas.
""It's whatever,"" Crawford said of a possible fight with Pacquiao. ""I let my coaches handle that. I'm a fighter. I'll fight anybody. I'm looking forward to the biggest and best fights to get me to that next level.""
Crawford, 28, was content to feel Postol out over the first three rounds, before landing a series of damaging lefts in the fourth.
He had Postol's knee on the -canvas in the opening seconds of the fifth round with a right hook, and sent him down again in the same round with another left.
As Postol struggled to deal with Crawford's quick, erratic movement, the American won round after round, staggering Postol again in the ninth.
Postol tried to pour it on in the 12th, but Crawford didn't yield.
""I just stick to what I knew - boxing,"" Crawford said. ""They say he's got the best jab in my division, I proved different today.""
On the undercard, unbeaten Oscar Valdez stopped previously unbeaten Matias Rueda in the second round to claim the vacant WBO featherweight world title.
Mexico's Valdez, a two-time Olympian who improved to 21-0 with 18 knockouts as a professional,
staggered Rueda in the first round and dropped him twice in the second with body shots - with Rueda failing to rise the second time. Rueda fell to 26-1 with 23 knockouts.
""This was my dream since I was 8 years old,"" said Valdez. ""It is the dream we shared, me and my father. I just work hard in the gym. We got to accomplish our dream. Now I want to fight the best.""
Valdez won the title vacated by Ukraine's Vasyl Lomachenko, after he moved up in weight and won the WBO super featherweight world title in just his seventh pro bout.
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Mlb- Mariano Rivera Achieves Second Place in Saves List
Author: Ally White
The 38 years-old relief pitcher Marino Rivera obtained second place in his career saves with 479 over passing Lee Smith in the all-time list of saves. This is also Mo’s 36th save during the present 2008 season. During the last game against the White Sox, it just took Mo seven pitches to close the win for the Yankees.
As Girardi expressed, Rivera has been consistent and his standing of excellence over his 13 years of baseball career reflects on his numbers. Mariano has barely given up two earned runs over his previous ten games and kept on to decrease his WHIP and ERA while increasing his saves.
However, Rivera’s expectations have never been individualistic, he is always been a team player and he will always be. Mariano always expects the best for his team and if the team wins, he is happy with that. It doesn’t matter if he gets the second place of saves for him the joy is about winning against the White Sox. "With due respect to the game, it's OK to me, but to me, that isn't what it's about , it's about winning, I'm a team player, and I'm not really thinking about myself, and that's the way it's going to be,�Rivera stated.
In 1995 Mariano Rivera began his professional career in the leagues as a starting pitcher. However, after his amazing pitching of approximately 95 and 96 MPH the Yankees managers decided to start him for 10 games in which he got a career high of 11 strikeouts only that season. Later as the season developed he participated as a relief pitcher and his amazing skills and abilities located him back at the bullpen.
One year later Mariano was playing as a set-up relief and he became an important player in the World Series that year. The following season in 1997 Mariano was the official Yankees closer, although his game wasn’t as smooth as it could have been. Nevertheless, Mo proved them wrong by being consistent on his saves and strikeouts over the following years. Mariano became one of the best closer pitchers in the MLB, adding to his career four World Series titles.
Mariano was named World Series MVP in 1999, 2003 American League CS MVP and he has been awarded nine times as All-Star selection. As anyone can see, his legacy has been amazing during the past 13 years. Rivera has finished every regular season except one with a sub- 3.00 ERA, adding 479th saves, WHIP 1.02, appearing 846 and finishing 713 games.
To many baseball fans, analysts, ex-players and managers Mariano Rivera is considered the best relief pitcher of all time, the best relief pitcher in postseason history and the best relief pitcher in the Yankees’ history. Regardless of his incredible triumphs he remains a humble person with and a generous mentality. The Panamanian believes his legacy is due to the opportunity has been given in every game he has played over the past 13 years, therefore, he hopes his team will continue to be successful until he retires.
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