World championship boxing came to Bermuda for the first time on Saturday night, and it ended as an evening to remember, with Lisa Brown making history as the first world champion to be crowned on local soil.

Trinidad-born Canadian Lisa Brown was able to joyfully strap on the Women's International Boxing Federation Bantamweight belt after handing out a boxing lesson to hated rival, two-time world champ, Leona Brown of the United States, capturing a unanimous 10-round decision.

The two had verbally sparred in the lead in to the event, almost coming to blows during a Thursday afternoon media conference at Fairmont Princess.

At the time Lisa Brown emphasised that her fists would do the talking, and indeed they spoke volumes on the night, with the southpaw, after a two-round feeling out process, tagging the always charging Leona Brown at will with lead rights and the several left hands, living up to her monicker `Bad News'.

"I tried to get comfortable and each time I went through a round I came back and asked the Lord to stay by my side and help me do this," explained a beaming Lisa Brown following the contest. "I went out there to see the punches, slip and get under, put my technique together and that's what did it.

"Leona just has basically one style, and once you figure out her weak points you can beat her.

"She is all mouth, a big mouth, but she can't back it . . . now I'm the champion of the world."

While the pair's previous fight in April witnessed several knockdowns there were none on Saturday, with Lisa Brown displaying much of her boxing repertoire that made the fight fitting of a main event.

Leona Brown was gallant and fearless in her continual attack and aggression, however the superior ringmanship and hand speed of Lisa Brown dictated the outcome.

"All the girls fought their hearts out, but in terms of the scorecards I think Lisa gave her a bit of a boxing lesson," noted Vlad Warton, president of Millennium Promotions which put on the card in association with Choy Aming.

The night's co-main feature saw American (Slick) Willie Stewart live up to his monicker, as he was too fast, too strong, too . . . well, slick, for Jamaica's Anthony Osbourne, who came in as a last-minute replacement for Charles Izzard.

From the opening bell Stewart was on the move, jabbing to the head and body of Osbourne, keeping the Jamaican off balance and guessing.

A three-punch combination in the second ended with Osbourne on the canvas courtesy of a right hand he never saw coming that smacked him flush on the chin.

The third round featured more of the same, the lightning-quick hands of Stewart dazzling Osbourne, and while this time he would see the right hand coming, he was at a loss to defend, and after finding himself seated on the floor once again 2:45 into the third, elected not to rise, handing Stewart his 14th victory, and seventh via knockout, with no defeats.

Asked about the knockdowns and eventual knockout, and how it, at least didn't appear to look as if he had connected with great power, Stewart said how it came more down to technique over brute force.

"It's not really the power of the punch, it's the placement, especially if it's a punch you don't see," he said. "The first knockdown he didn't see it coming, the second he probably saw it, but it was more powerful and I put more into it."

Perhaps the most exciting fight of the evening involved Ukranian Oleksiy Trofimov and Joe Kaak of Canada, with the much smaller Trofimov prevailing after referee Wayne Kelly called a halt to the action at 52 seconds of the 10th and final round.

Kaak, who promised to "feed him so many lefts he'll be begging for a right", instead found himself being force-fed a steady diet of body punches and uppercuts, as Trofimov was able to make a living on the inside, banging the Canadian with a relentless assault.

The first pro bout saw Barbadian Curtis Murray notch a TKO of Delroy Henderson of Jamaica in the middleweight division, as referee Kelly waved off the matter at 2:29 of the sixth, with Murray pinning Henderson in his own corner and peppering him with an unanswered two-fisted barrage.

Still, the dominant punch throughout for the Bajan had been his left hook, which continually found the mark, leaving Henderson staggering on a few occasions.

"He was jabbing me a bit low, so I decided to counter him with my left hook and then come back with the right, but most of the time the right was missing, so I shortened it and that was when I was able to catch him and they stopped it," said Murray. "I saw the opportunity in the sixth and decided to take him out. He was tired."

Murray is now looking to seize the middleweight title of Barbados before making a bid for an international title.

"We're going back to Barbados and we're going to fight for the middleweight championship of Barbados," said Murray's manager Sam Layne. "We love Bermuda, the fans were excellent."

Nevertheless, while there was an overall degree of success for Bermuda as a whole, the same could not be said for the two local amateurs also featured, as Jerome Caines and Freeman Smith both lost.

Caines appeared sluggish against Canada's Jeremy Thompson, losing a four round points decision, while Smith was clearly outclassed by another Canadian, Jason Douglas.

"I didn't get beat, but I did lose," said Caines. "I feel it was due to me lifting too much weights in training, that was the problem I had, because it made me slow. I think his experience told a bit. If I'd have had a little more time I feel like I would have done better. I'm a late starter, so there's still room for me to get better and go beyond this.

"I need to work on my speed and my aim, but I'm not discouraged, I want to fight again right now."