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With three mandatory title bouts facing a Monday deadline before purse bids, one bout was agreed to and the other two were auctioned off at WBA headquarters in Panama City, Panama.Representatives for bantamweight world titleholder Raushee Warren (14-1, 4 KOs), of Cincinnati, and secondary titleholder Jamie McDonnell (28-2-1, 13 KOs), of England, made a deal. The details of when and where the fight will take place were not immediately announced, but it likely will take place this fall in the United Kingdom.Warren, 29, a three-time U.S. Olympian, won the 118-pound belt by majority decision in a rematch with Juan Carlos Payano on June 18 in Chicago.McDonnell (28-2-1, 13 KOs), 30, has defended his version of the belt four times, but the WBA, which has for years sanctioned three belts in the same division, said recently that it plans to reduce the number of titles it hands out and has been ordering fights that will eliminate the extra belts in each division.Warren-McDonnell is one of them.Promotional rights for two other fights, interim heavyweight titlist Luis King Kong Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) against 39-year-old Alexander Ustinov (33-1, 24 KOs), and secondary junior middleweight titleholder Jack Culcay (22-1, 11 KOs) versus former titleholder Demetrius Andrade (23-0, 16 KOs), were auctioned to the highest bidder.Vlad Hrunov, bidding on behalf of Russian promoter Andrey Ryabinskys World of Boxing, was the only bidder for Ortiz-Ustinov, winning with the minimum allowable bid of $600,000. Ortiz is entitled to 60 percent, meaning he will earn $360,000, and Ustinov is entitled to 40 percent, meaning his purse will be $240,000.Hrunov told ESPN.com that the fight is penciled in to take place on Nov. 19 in Moscow, Las Vegas or Minsk, Belarus, where Russian native Ustinov lives.However, Hrunov said there is a good chance that the fight will land at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and take place on the HBO PPV card headlined by unified light heavyweight titleholder Sergey Kovalev taking on former super middleweight champion Andre Ward in one of the years most anticipated matches.Ortiz-Ustinov had already been agreed to and was ticketed to take place Sept. 17 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on the HBO PPV undercard of Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith.However, Ortiz, a 37-year-old southpaw, who defected from Cuba and lives in Miami, is in a contract dispute over his purse with his promoter, Golden Boy, and pulled out of the fight, forcing the purse bid.But Golden Boy did not bid, a clear indication that the sides are working on a settlement to go their separate ways.Sauerland Event, which promotes Culcay, won the rights to the bout with Andrade. It offered $425,000, which easily beat the only other offer, which was $201,000 made by Andrade co-promoter Artie Pelullo of Banner Promotions. The minimum bid was $150,000.Culcay is entitled to 75 percent of the winning bid ($318,750) and Andrade ($106,250) will get 25 percent.Culcay, 30, a native of Ecuador who fights out of Germany, was elevated from an interim titlist to full titleholder earlier this year.Andrade, a 28-year-old southpaw from Providence, Rhode Island, who represented the United States at the 2008 Olympics, beat Culcay in the 2007 World Amateur Championship on his way to a gold medal in that tournament, the most prestigious amateur tournament other than the Olympics.Don Majeski, bidding on behalf of Sauerland Event, told ESPN.com the bout would take place either in late October or early November in Germany.We lost the purse bid, but we are looking forward to the fight, Pelullo told ESPN.com. 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TAMPA, Fla. -- Frank Martins uneasiness about how No. 16 South Carolina might respond to its first loss of the season was unfounded.PJ Dozier and Duane Notice assured that, stepping up in the absence of leading scorer Sindarius Thornwell to help the Gamecocks (9-1) shrug off cold shooting and pull away to a 77-66 victory over South Florida on Saturday.Dozier scored 11 of his 23 points in the closing minutes and Notice gave South Carolina a spark by contributing 14 of his 15 points after halftime to help the Gamecocks bounce back from last Mondays 67-64 loss to Seton Hall.It was my concern for this basketball team coming into this game, coming off our first loss, being so young, that some guys wouldnt handle it (well). Losing is an epidemic, and losing is not good. And young people dont know how to handle losing, Martin said.It was our first experience as a team to go through it. I think we kind of came out and played the first half like somebody took our dog. We didnt have our enthusiasm, the fight that weve played with every single day out, Martin added. But Im equally as pleased, I thought we played well in the second half as a basketball team. Different guys doing things. Obviously PJ continues to grow as a player here and do unbelievable things. But like I told him, its also his challenge.The Gamecocks (9-1) improved to 2-1 without Thornwell, who has been suspended indefinitely for violating athletic department policy.With Sind being out, we had only two seniors out on the floor. So as Coach said, were young. Were a young team and were just looking to grow, Dozier said.We came out first half a little sluggish. We make our offense out of our defense and wasnt doing that the first half, the 6-foot-6 sophomore guard added. We went into the locker room and Coach gave us that word that we needed and came out with the intensity we should have started with.Jahmal McMurray led USF (5-4) with 25 points. Malik Fitts had 12 points and Geno Thorpe finished with 11 points and nine rebounds for the Bulls, who led 37-31 at halftime.South Carolina began the second half with a 17-9 burst to take a 48-41 lead.dddddddddddd Dozier and Notice keyed the initial surge and Dozier took over down the stretch, when the Gamecocks led by as many as 13.We got, maybe, a little bit complacent. Didnt come out with the fire that we had in the first half, McMurray said. The second half, we just have to ... come out with the same fire.THE BIG PICTURESouth Carolina, which has its highest ranking since being No. 14 in the final poll of the 1997-98 season, obviously misses Thornwell, who leads them in assists, as well as scoring and rebounding. With Notice missing the first eight shots he attempted, including six from 3-point range, the Gamecocks trailed at halftime for the first time this season.Not surprisingly, South Florida faded down the stretch. Luis Santos made a layup to trim South Carolinas lead to 64-61 with 7 minutes left, however the Bulls didnt score again from the field until Bo Zeiglers basket with 29 seconds left.FIRST BIG TESTSouth Carolina is only Power 5 opponent USF is scheduled to face this season. The Bulls fell to 0-4 against ranked opponents under coach Orlando Antigua and have dropped 20 consecutive games to Top 25 opponents since knocking off No. 15 Louisville on the road on Feb. 29, 2012.POLL IMPLICATIONSThe Gamecocks may lose some ground in the next AP poll, however, rebounding on the road -- albeit against an opponent thats had its share of problems against a weak schedule -- will likely keep the Gamecocks in the Top 25.UNIENDO LOS TOROSUSF designated Saturday as Uniendo Los Toros, which in English translates to Uniting The Bulls. The game featured two of three Hispanic-American head coaches in NCAA Division I in South Carolinas Martin and USFs Antigua. Miamis Jim Larranaga is the third. Early arrivals among the announced crowd of 2,489 at the Sun Dome received white T-shirts commemorating the occasion.UP NEXTSouth Carolina: Returns home to face intrastate rival Clemson on Wednesday.South Florida: Faces Northern Illinois at home on Tuesday.--- ' ' '