Figueroa, Joyce and Ajagba all victorious in Ontario Ca.

Due to the unfortunate arrest of former champion Victor Ortiz and the last minute cancellation of his bout with John Molina jr, Main event status at the Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario Ca belonged to Undefeated super bantamweight Brandon Figueroa (17-0, 12 KOs) who scored an impressive Knockout victory over Oscar Escandon (25-5, 17 KOs) on Sunday evening.. Figueroa controlled the majority of the bout and appeared to be on his way to a popular points win, when a clinical uppercut dropped Escandon for the count.. Time was 1:42 of round 10. Incidentally Brandon is the brother of former world champion Omar Figueroa.

In the Co-feature, Unbeaten Olympic super heavyweight silver medalist Joe Joyce (6-0, 6 KOs) boxed competently, scoring a fifth round TKO over the very game Iago Kiladze (26-4, 18 KOs). Joyce displayed great accuracy and versatility, dropping Kiladze in rounds two and three. Joe finally dropped Kiladze for the final time towards the end of the fifth round, Iago picked himself up off the canvas but appeared in no condition to continue.. Joe is a huge athlete with very good power, and in time will be a real danger to a lot of credible heavyweights.. The only negative I could take from this outing, was his willingness to stand and take unnecessary shots from Kiladze once he had the fighter hurt, otherwise the victory was a clinical performance.. Time was :41 of the fifth.

In an interesting clash of unbeaten heavyweights, Nigeria’s Efe Ajagba (7-0, 6 KOs) scored a first round KO over Nick Jones (7-1, 5 KOs). The first meaningful right hand that Ajagba set up dropped Jones heavily, the Oklahoma man robotically rose from the knockdown but the fight was waved off at 2:25. Efe is coming off a controversial victory over Curtis Harper, when the Florida man left the ring at the sounding of the opening bell.. Ajagba is in good hands with Ronnie Shields and is showing the makings of a promising heavyweight..

Former double IBF super middleweight champion James DeGale (25-2-1, 15 KOs) returned to action tonight for the first time since vacating his title, scoring a third round stoppage over former WBC lightweight title challenger Fidel Monterrosa (39-19-1, 31 KOs)