71.   Shinji Takehara of Japan defended his Orient-Pacific Boxing Federation middleweight title with a unanimous decision over Lee Sung-chun of South Korea Tuesday.

72.   The Allen-Ramadan match is billed as being for the interim IBF middleweight title.

73.   The fight was on the undercard of the James Toney-Roy Jones Jr. super middleweight title bout at the MGM Grand hotel-casino.

74.   The firstof the eight fights is expected to be a November middleweight title unification bout against Ike Quartey.

75.   The fight was billed as being for the fringe IBC middleweight title.

76.   The last time William Joppy fought, he lost the WBA middleweight title to Felix Trinidad, who went on to lose the undisputed title to Bernard Hopkins.

77.   The victory set up a rematch between Grant and Lonnie Bradley for the World Boxing Organization middleweight title later this year.

78.   The WBC middleweight title had become vacant when McClellan moved up to super middleweight last year.

79.   The World Boxing Council stripped Hilton of his super middleweight title a few weeks later.

80.   This time, the fight continued, with Hopkins retaining his IBF middleweight title by dominating round after round until Allen was done.