WATCH REPLAY: Froch vs Taylor ONLINE STREAM BOXING

Carl Froch (25-0, 20 KOs) remained undefeated Saturday evening after a stellar comeback performance that had a near sell-out crowd of 3,726 on their feet when he knocked out former undisputed middleweight Jermain Taylor (28-3-1, 17 KOs) to retain the World Boxing Council (WBC) super middleweight world title on SHOWTIME.

England’s undefeated WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch scored the biggest win of his career moments ago at the Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut, stopping Jermain Taylor in the dying seconds of the final round.

Taylor outshined Froch and sent him to the canvas with a hellacious overhand right in the third round; the first time Froch has ever been down in his career. Froch recovered and was able to find his rhythm as he pressed the action in the middle rounds.


At the start of the 12th and final round, Froch felt that he needed a knockout to win the fight. And that is just what he got. Froch dropped Taylor using his solid jabs and strong right hand and, while Taylor was able to recover, he never fully regained his legs. At 2:46 of the 12th round after sustaining a flurry of monstrous punches, referee Michael Ortega stepped in and held a defenseless Taylor.

It was a fair stoppage and with the win Froch retained his WBC super middleweight title and improved to 25-0 (20 KOs) while Taylor drops to 28-3 (17 KOs).

WATCH REPLAY: Peñalosa vs Lopez ONLINE STREAM BOXING

Juan Manuel "JuanMa" Lopez TKO Gerry "Fearless" Penalosa in round 9.

The only thing more amazing than ‘Fearless’ Gerry Penalosa’s ability to take a punch was rising star Juan Manuel Lopez’s ability to dish them out. In a sensational display of fortitude and punishment, Puerto Rico’s Juan Manuel Lopez retained his WBO super bantamweight title with a ninth round stoppage over Filipino veteran Gerry Penalosa earlier this evening in Bayamon.

While “Fearless” (now 54-6-2) landed some solid counters and engaged in just enough fierce exchanges to stay in the fight, he was given the worst beat down of his long career. Finally, trainer Freddie Roach had no alternative but to stop the fight between the ninth and tenth stanzas. Indeed, it was painful to watch the old warrior sustain so many blows both to the body and head, but by the same token, he was in against a shooting star of the sport—and only shooting stars land 80 power punches in one round, particularly on a pro like Penalosa.