The WBC Boxing Grand Prix gets underway today at the BLVD City Global Theater in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A total of 64 fights will take place, with 16 fights each day from today, April 18, until Sunday, April 20. The Featherweight division will kick things off.

Each fight will be six three-minute rounds, there will be no draws and bouts will be scored on a qualitative scoring system if fights are even at the end.

In the final bout of Day 1, Angel Sauceda began brilliantly and produced a third-round knockdown against a game Maikel Ordosgoitti effort to secure his ticket into the last-16 with a UD6 (58-55 x 3) victory, where he'll face Iman Lee in June.

His left hand repeatedly stung Ordosgoitti in the second, while the 24-year-old's recovery powers were praised after being caught clean early in round three.

Advancing without a tight defensive shell, he absorbed a one-two combination and the left sent him crashing to the canvas. Just as you thought it was all over, his head cleared in time and he continued pressing forward, albeit against a mobile Sauceda.

Ordosgoitti's best came in the fourth, as he continued aggressively pestering with some success. In the fifth, he landed a peach of a right hand but couldn't stop Sauceda from moving plenty and comfortably boxing off the back foot.

Knowing he needed a knockout, Ordosgoitti was guilty of following rather than cutting the ring off effectively as Sauceda exercised caution, leading to him absorbing more damage than previously. It didn't matter.

A close fight between Lee and Albornoz, but it's the former who gets the close decision with scorecards which read: 57-57 even, 58-56 twice in favour of the American after a tight, back-and-forth contest. MD6.

A convincing victory for Bolano against American Hardison, who tired after a couple of rounds having only picked up boxing for the first time two years ago. The Colombian wins a unanimous decision with scores of 59-54 and 58-55 twice.

A brilliant performance from Britain's Powar, who came in as the underdog, putting power combinations together throughout to outpoint a former sparring partner of Naoya Inoue in Llamido with unanimous scores of 59-55.

A dominant, devastating performance from Mexican Mosqueda, who dropped his Jordanian opponent three times in three rounds to force a TKO3 victory. The last knockdown came as a result of a thunderous straight right hand.

American Nash gets the nod in a high-level affair, winning a split decision over the more experienced Kazakh fighter Kovrigin. 57-56 Kovrigin, 58-54 Nash, 58-55, Nash were the scores.

Tough one for Piala, who gave it his all but was overmatched against his Tanzanian opponent. 58-56, 59-55, 59-55 were the scores for Choki, who picked up the unanimous decision win.

Mexican Munguia, who controlled much of the contest, stopped Nigerian Gbadamosi with just seconds to go in the final round after a final flurry to the head and body. TKO6, the final result.

For the first time this evening we head to the enhanced scoring system after the judges rule the fight a draw with scores of 57-55 Adeniji, 56-56 twice. The qualitative scoring system rules Adeniji, who had two points deducted during the contest, the winner 6-5, 6-5, 7-5.

American Denson out-pointed Tetteh with ease in arguably the most one-sided contest of the evening in Riyadh. The three scorecards read 59-55 and 60-54 twice.

South African may not have had the glossier record coming into the contest, but he had just the right tools to secure a comfortable unanimous decision win over Colombian Puentes with three scores of 59-55.

A tactical, back-and-forth battle, it was Ghanaian Dorgbetor who came out on top by split decision with scores of 58-56 Dorgbetor, 58-56 Solomennikov and 59-56 Dorgbetor.

A second straight knockout of the night as Zhengissov times a picture-perfect short right hook to lay Ezzaidani face-first onto the canvas in the second round. TKO2 win for the Kazakh.

Bakhtiyorov wins by TKO6 having scored a vicious knockdown off a right hand in the first round. Hadjab did well to recover but it was one-way traffic from then on in and after a final onslaught in round six, the action was waved off.

All three judges score the fight 60-54 in favour of Valverde Jr, who used his back-foot boxing to ward off Zhou's all-action, come-forward style in the second bout of the day.

Ukrainian Semonchuk gave it all he head, forcing the pressure throughout but ultimately, Qamili's clean work shone through to pick up the win, in all three judges' opinions, with scorecards of: 58-57, 59-55, 58-56.