HBO-Boxing-January-24-2004-Results

HBO World Championship Boxing Results

Gatti vs. Branco

January 24, 2004

Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall

Atlantic City, New Jersey

WBC Jr. Welterweight Title Bout - 12 Rounds (vacant)

Arturo Gatti (37-6, 28 KO's) wins by unanimous decision (116-111, 115-112, 116-111) over Gianluca

Branco (32-1-1, 15 KO's) - Gatti captures the vacant WBC Jr. welterweight title

Jr. Welterweight Bout

Francisco Bojado (15-1, 11 KO's) wins by unanimous decision (97-93, 97-93, 99-92) over

Emmanuel Clottey (21-6, 14 KO's)

Middleweight Bout

Rasheem Brown (14-0, 12 KO's) wins by third round TKO over Shakir Ashanti (15-8, 5 KO's)

Jr. Middleweight Bout

Kermit Cintron (22-0, 20 KO's) wins by fifth round TKO over Humberto Aranda (28-13, 17 KO's)

Also

Super Middleweight Bout

James McGirt Jr. won his debut with a four round unanimous decision win over James North (0-2) - McGirt

Jr. is trained by his father, former IBF Jr. welterweight and WBC welterweight champion James "Buddy"

McGirt (73-6-1, 48 KO's)

(1/24/04)