Round 11: And Brant ends the fight in emphatic fashion, a series of accurate punches buzzes Baysungurov, and few follow up punches send him down to the canvas. Then a short time later, a right hand which snapped back the head of Baysungurov, had the fight waved off. Brant retains his title by 11th round TKO

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Round 10: Baysungurov lands the hardest, most telling punches of the round. For the first time, Brant, who has expended a lot of energy tonight, looks a bit fatigued. 98-91 Brant

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Round 9: Brant is utilizing as much lateral movement as he is punching and Baysungurov just can't muster up enough clean punches to win these rounds. 89-81 Brant

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Round 8: Brant is just consistently and methodically winning one round after another by out-working and out-boxing Baysungurov, who can get a bead on him. 79-72 Brant

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Round 7: Another dominant round by Brant, who is using both his hands and feet to befuddle Baysungurov, but the challenger is still throwing hard punches and occasionally landing them. 69-63 Brant

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Round 6: A dominant round by Brant, who not only boxes well from the outside, he also plants his feet at times to hit Baysungurov with clean punches down the middle. The challenger may have a broken nose. 59-54 Brant

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Round 5: Baysungurov had some moments but overall, it was Brant carrying the action and landing more punches. Once again, Brant is setting an active and busy pace as he did versus Ryoto Murata. 49-45 Brant

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Round 4: Brant gets back on track in the 4th, hitting on the fly, and consistently beating Baysungurov to the punch. 39-36 Brant

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Round 3: Good round three for Baysungurov, who finally gets on track and begins to pin-point quick right hands up the middle on Brant, who's work subsides in this frame. 29-27 Brant

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This is Baysangurov: first career title shot and his first fight in the United States. He has won his last 2 fights by decision. Baysangurov is the younger brother of former junior middleweight champ Zaurbek Baysangurov. He likes to go to the body -- 37.8% of Baysangurov landed punches are body shots (CompuBox avg.: 26%)

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Round 2: A right hand sends Basyungurov down in the second, and the challenger is already down by a significant amount early on in this fight. 20-17 Brant

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Round 1: Brant begins this fight quickly by coming out of the gate and letting his hands go freely. His volume of punches overwhelmes Baysungurov in the first. 10-9 Brant

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Brant is making the first defense of the WBA “regular” middleweight title (Canelo Alvarez holds the WBA main title). Brant threw 1,262 punches against Ryota Murata, the second most by a middleweight in CompuBox history. Five of the last Brant six victories have been by stoppage.

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Rob Brant, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is fighting at the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota for the 12th time, this time as a homecoming of sorts after upsetting Ryota Murata to win the title by a lopsided decision (118-110, 119-109, 119-109) on October. Shortly thereafter he and promoter Greg Cohen signed a co-promotional deal with Top Rank.

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Next up on ESPN from Hinckley, Minnesota, is the main event between hometown hero, Rob Brant (24-1, 16 KOs) who makes he first defense of his WBA regular middleweight title against Khasan Baysungurov (17-0 ,7 KOs)

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Round 8: Mayer put the finishing touches on a dominant performance by finishing strong versus a very game Larios, who at the end took a shellacking but was able to see the last bell. 80-72 Mayer.

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Round 7: The assault continues and for the first time in the seventh frame, Larios is visibly hurt by the shots of Mayer, who just keeps pouring it on to the head and the body. 70-63 Mayer

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Round 6: More of the same from Mayer, who just consistently keeps boxing from the outside and closing in behind the jab. Larios is certainly game and tough but she is having issues mounting much offense the past several rounds. 60-54 Mayer

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Round 5: Larios is very game but she's simply out-gunned by the bigger, stronger Mayer, who just keeps steadily comes after behind the jab and then follows with left hooks downstairs. 50-45 Larios

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Round 4: Mayer is now beginning to really control things in there she is boxing well behind the jab and then closing in on Larios, and then landing left hooks to the body. Mayer has begun to really impose her size on her smaller foe. 40-36 Mayer

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Round 3: Mayer does a nice job of boxing tall and using her reach and she dominates this round over Larios, who doesn't get much accomplished.30-27 Mayer

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