Haitian-born Canadian Adonis Stevenson retained his World Boxing Council light-heavyweight title on Saturday night after fighting Sweden’s Badou Jack to a majority draw in which no judge scored him a winner. Stevenson, a 40-year-old southpaw, kept the title after two judges scored the bout 114-114 and the third saw Jack as a 115-113 winner in the title bout at Toronto. In a fight nobody lost, both fighters saw themselves as winners. “I thought I definitely won the fight,” Jack said. “No judge had him winning.”
Stevenson’s record went to 29-1-1 while Jack settled for his third career draw against 22 wins and a lone defeat. “I feel I win the fight,” Stevenson said. “I hurt him in the body. He got slowed down. I keep pressure on him. He moved slick but I touched him more all the time. I think I win this fight.”
All three judges awarded Jack the 12th round to lift him into the draw, which could set the stage for a title rematch. Jack is ready, but wants Stevenson to fight outside Canada for the first time since September 2011. 
Jack settled for a draw two fights ago in January 2017 with James DeGale and wondered if the fact he is promoted by retired unbeaten champion Floyd Mayweather played a role in his struggles to get more than draws.
Stevenson extended the second-longest active reign in boxing. He knocked out Chad Dawson for the crown in 2013 and since then stopped six of eight prior foes with two other victories by unanimous decision.
Stevenson, who had not fought since stopping Poland’s Andrzej Fonfara last June in Montreal, dominated early but struggled late as Jack, with Mayweather at ringside cheering him on, bloodied the champion’s nose in the eighth round and controlled the pace to the finish.
Jack, a 2008 Olympian for his father’s homeland of Gambia, owned the WBC super-middleweight crown from 2015 to 2017 and stopped Britain’s Nathan Cleverly last August for the World Boxing Association crown, but relinquished the title for the chance to fight Stevenson.


Taguchi’s boxing history bid ended by ‘Hexecutioner’
Ryoichi Taguchi’s bid to become the first Japanese boxer to successfully defend a unified world title was dashed by junior lightweight rival Hekkie Budler yesterday. The South African challenger relieved Taguchi of his WBA and IBF belts as he won a unanimous points decision in Tokyo.
All three judges scored the bout 114-113 in favour of Budler, himself previously a WBA title holder. The South African, dubbed the “Hexecutioner”, improved to 32 wins, 10 by knockout, against three losses.
Taguchi was defending his WBA title for the eighth time and the IBF crown for the first time. Taguchi slipped to 27 wins against three defeats and two draws.

Russell decisions Diaz to keep featherweight boxing crown
 Gary Russell Jr. retained his World Boxing Council featherweight title on Saturday, taking a unanimous 12-round decision over previously unbeaten Joseph Diaz in a showdown of American southpaws. 
Judges awarded Russell the victory before his hometown supporters in suburban Washington by scores of 115-113, 117-111 and 117-111. Russell improved to 29-1 while Diaz suffered his first loss after 26 victories in his first world title bout. It was only the third time defending the title for Russell, who took the crown in 2015 by stopping Jhonny Gonzalez and waited just over a year to risk it each time.