BOXING TODAY

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-Bookmakers are expecting reigning champions to fall tonight.According to Sportbook.com, former champion Vitali Klitschko is a -200 favorite to take the WBC heavyweight belt when he meets Samuel Peter tonight in Berlin, Germany. Peter backers can get +160. Also tonight, light heavyweight Chad Dawson is a solid -265 pick to dethrone IBF/IBO champion Antonio Tarver, who is pegged as a -205 underdog. Both fights can be seen tonight on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING (9PM ET/PT).

-WBC Latino middleweight beltholder David "The Destroyer" Lopez (37-12, 25 KOs) outworked Samuel Miller (19-3, 16 KOs) over twelve rounds to claim a unanimous decision on Friday night at the Desert Diamond Casino in Tucson, Arizona. Lopez logged his 13th straight win by scores of 118-109, 119-108, 117-110.

-Lightweight David Rodela (11-1-3, 6 KOs) scored the biggest win of his career, taking an eight round split decision over former world champion Kevin Kelley (60-9-2, 39 KOs). Rodela won on two cards 78-74, 77-75. The 41-year-old "Flushing Flash" prevailed on the third card 78-74.

-A fight that has been brewing for months finally takes place in Las Vegas on Saturday when Chad Dawson meets Antonio Tarver in a clash of well-matched southpaw light-heavyweights. Tarver defends his IBF and IBO titles while Dawson vacated the WBC championship so that he could advance unencumbered by mandatory-defence obligations into a much-discussed showdown that will be televised by Showtime (along with same-day coverage of the heavyweight title bout between Samuel Peter and Vitali Klitschko)