By David Robinett at ringside

The San Francisco Bay Area played host to one of its biggest nights of boxing in recent years as unbeaten junior middleweight James Kirkland (25-0, 22 KOs) stopped Joel Julio (34-3, 31 KOs) after six one-sided rounds in the headline bout of Saturday nights HBO’s Boxing After Dark from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. In the evening’s second televised bout and co-main event, “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, (24-1-1, 19 KOs), continued his march up the 140 pound ladder as he stopped the normally durable Mike Arnauotis, (21-3-1, 10 KOs ) in a twelve round junior welterweight bout for the NABO and USBA junior welterweight titles. The first televised bout of the evening was also listed as a co-main event but was the main attraction for most of the fans in attendance, as local star and former IBF featherweight champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero faced off against undefeated Indonesian prospect Daud Yordan (17-0, 12 KOs) in a ten-round junior lightweight bout for the vacant NABO title. ***CLICK HERE FOR THE ENTIRE REPORT AND PHOTOGALLERY