[3] Jones had become a star in the light heavyweight division and at the time of his match with Ruiz, held titles from seven different boxing organizations.

[4] Ultimately however Jones's father convinced him to stay at light heavyweight, telling him he was "risking his life" by fighting Douglas.

Ruiz was fouled multiple times during the course of the ten round contest and won after referee Joe Cortez disqualified Johnson.

Also Alejandro García stopped Santiago Samaniego to win his WBA (Regular) Light middleweight belt.

The first of three major world title bouts on the card saw WBA cruiserweight champion Jean-Marc Mormeck faced No.

After a slow start, Mormeck made use of his jab to take control of the action, wearing Gurov down with hard right hands.

Mormeck continue strong in the 8th, landing a clean hard combination to the head in early on, which prompted the referee to wave the bout off.

[9] The second world title on the card saw IBF Light middleweight champion Winky Wright face mandatory challenger Juan Carlos Candelo.

[10] Wright would establishing his jab early and use movement to frustrate Candelo, who would spend the bout trying to put pressure on the champion.

The 4th round would see the challenger a left uppercut during a exchange that appear to momentary hurt the champion, however he would quickly recover before controlling much of the rest of the bout.

Jones used his superior boxing skills and hand speed to his advantage and used timely jabs and uppercuts against Ruiz, who was unable to land a sustained amount of offense, only connecting with 89 of 433 thrown punches for a dismal 21% success rate.

The official judges' scorecards were one-sided in Jones' favor and he secured a unanimous decision victory with scores of 118–110, 117–111 and 116–112.

Ruiz would earn the victory by unanimous decision and following Jones relinquishing his title in February, became recognized as the official WBA heavyweight champion.