Vernon "The Viper" Forrest captured the vacant WBC junior middleweight title in dominating fashion, earning a wide margin unanimous decision victory over former welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir. Baldomir's best round was the ninth, where he appeared to stun Forrest mometarily. Forrest also lost a point in the ninth for hitting Baldomir low. Other than that, Forrest boxed effectively and landed the cleaner harder shots in a surprisingly entertaining fight. Official scores were 118-109, 118-109 and 116-111.