BOXING: CASAMAYOR WINS IN A SPLIT.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Perhaps justice was served Saturday night at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Joel Casamayor, using many years of ring savvy and taking full advantage of an at-times listless (programming) listless - In functional programming, a property of a function which allows it to be combined with other functions in a way that eliminates intermediate data structures, especially lists. Phil Wadler's thesis gives the conditions for a function to be in listless form: each input list is traversed only once, one element at a time, from left to right. Each output list is generated once, one element at a time, from left to right. Diego ``Chico'' Corrales, won a split decision over Corrales to win the World Boxing Council lightweight championship. Casamayor won by scores of 116-111 and 115-112 on the respective scorecards of Adalaide Byrd and Nobuaki Uratani. The third judge, Jerry Roth, scored Corrales the winner, 114-113. The Daily News scored the fight for Casamayor, 116-112. Corrales lost the WBC WBC - Washington Bible College (Lanham, Maryland) WBC - Washington Building Congress WBC - Water Basin Concept WBC - Water Binding Capacity WBC - Waveguide Below Cutoff WBC - Weight and Balance Computer WBC - Weird But Cute WBC - Westboro Baptist Church WBC - WESTPAC Banking Corporation WBC - White Blood Cells WBC - White Blood Count WBC - Whole Body Count WBC - Wideband Channel WBC - Wilkes-Barre Connecting (railroad) belt on the scales when he did not make 135- pound weight limit Friday, coming in first at 139 1/2, then at 139. Had Corrales defeated Casamayor, the title would have remained vacant. ``Thank God the judges saw it this way. I was concerned when it went to a decision, but I knew they would not take this one away,'' Casamayor said. --Robert Morales Valuev stops Barrett to retain WBA WBA - Weekly Benefit Amount WBA - Wesleyan Beekeepers Association WBA - West Bromwich Albion (English Soccer Club) WBA - Western Band Association WBA - Western Business Attire WBA - Westinghouse Brake & Signal (Australia) WBA - Wireless Broadband Access (Sprint) WBA - Workload-Based Analysis WBA - World Bocce Association WBA - World Boomerang Association WBA - World Boxing Association title: Undefeated Nikolai Valuev retained the WBA heavyweight championship Saturday night, stopping Monte Barrett in the 11th round. The largest heavyweight champion ever, the 7-foot, 328-pound Valuev (45-0, 33 knockouts) knocked down Barrett twice in the 11th, and the fight was stopped 2:12 into the round after a left jab left the challenger glassy-eyed and staggering against the ropes. ``This victory wasn't easy,'' Valuev said. ``Monte really tried hard.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Joel Casamayor, right, lands a right to Diego Corrales during their WBC lightweight championship fight in Las Vegas. Laura Rauch/Associated Press |
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