Oracle Arena, Oakland - IBF super flyweight world title Jerwin Ancajas (30-1-2, 20 KOs) barely held on to his title with a twelve round split draw against Alejandro Santiago (16-2-5, 7 KOs). The scores were 116-112 for Ancajas, 118-111 for Santiago and 114-114 for the draw. Many observers at ringside, like Andre Ward and Timothy Bradley, saw Santiago as the winner.

Coming in, Santiago was coming off a split drawl with undefeated Jose Martinez from back in March. They also fought to a draw in November of 2016.

Ancjas, who captured his world title in September 2016, has been very active. This was his third fight of the year - after stopping Israel Gonzalez in ten rounds in February and then won a twelve round unanimous decision over countryman Jonas Sultan in May.

Ancajas took control from the very first round, by pushing Santiago back, working a good jab and landing hard punches.

At the end of the second, the two fighters traded punches in toe to toe fashion with Santiago landing some solid punches. Ancajas had control in the third and fourth, but Santiago was a live dog and landing good punches in spots.

Santiago continued to land accurate rights, and even lefts on Ancajas in the fifth. Things were still close in the sixth, with Santiago's style making things tough for Ancajas. In the seventh, Ancajas found his distance and timing, and was getting off with accurate punches.

The action continued to play out in a very close manner in the eight and ninth. Both landed accurate shots in the tenth, from comfortable distances. In a close eleventh, the right eye of Ancajas was swelling and he got stunned in the final minute.

In the twelfth and final round, Santiago was making it a high contract fight, as they were trading punches and Santiago was getting the better of the exchanges until the final bell.

Also on the card, former world champion Rico “El Suavecito” Ramos won his sixth consecutive fight with a unanimous decision over the game Daniel Ole.

Ramos (30-5, 14 KOs), 31, of Los Angeles and a former World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight champion, dominated the fight and dropped Olea (13-6-2, 5  KOs) in the first round with a tremendous left uppercut.

Ramos was supposed to fight former world champion Jessie Magdaleno, who pulled out of the fight a couple of weeks ago. Top Rank was able to keep Ramos on the card and he deliver an entertaining fight against Olea who was competitive.

Ramos is currently ranked #13 by the WBA at 122 pounds and keeps his path towards landing another title shot.

Genesis Servania (32-1, 15 knockouts) stopped Carlos Carlson (23-5, 14 KOs) in the third round.

Janibek Alimkhanuly (3-0 1 KO) won an easy six round unanimous decision over Carlos Galvan (16-8-1, 15 KOs). All three judges saw it 60-54.

Askhat Ualikhanov had all he could handle in winning a six round unanimous decision over Angel Hernandez. The scores were 59-55, 58-56, 58-56.