Brubaker, Savva, Tszyu gain important victories

Former Commonwealth welterweight challenger Jack “Gelignite” Brubaker (14-3-1, 7 KOs) scored a unanimous 12-round decision over Englishman Tyrone Nurse (35-4-2, 7 KOs) in a Commonwealth Welterweight elimination bout, organized by  Johnny Lewis at the Star Casino in Sydney, New Wales, Australia.

The scores of the judges were 115-113, 116-112, 116-112.   In  another fight,  Ben Savva (9-1, 3 KOs) defeated  Kyron Dryden (10-2, 8 KOs) in twelve rounds to conquer the OPBF belt.  Dryden went down  in the fourth round from a body shot,  and in the ninth round he was deducted with a point by Referee Mick Heafey for throwing low blows. The scores were 119-107, 117-109, 118-109.

Light heavyweight Tim Tszyu (9-0, 7 KOs) stopped Larry Siwu (27-11, 23 KOs) in the fourth round of a scheduled ten round bout, with the Asian Continental title of the World Boxing Council on the line.  Referee Les Fear announced the Tszyu  victory  at 0:44 of the fourth round,  after the Indonesian was knocked down and unable to continue. Tszyu is the son of the legendary fighter Kostya Tszyu.