Roberts suffers surprise defeat to lose world title

Steve Roberts lost his WBF light middleweight title after a surprise defeat on points in Nottingham to the Russian Andrei Pestriaev.

Roberts, from London, lost his 29-fight unbeaten record on a majority points decision after 12 rounds.

"I tried a lot of combinations and they did not work," Roberts said. "Maybe I was a bit tired."

John Ruiz retained his WBA heavyweight title after Kirk Johnson was disqualified for landing repeated low blows.

Ruiz was ahead on all three judges' scorecards when the fight was halted. Johnson had points deducted in the first, fourth and seventh rounds before being disqualified with 43 seconds left in the 10th.

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