Morrison Rallies to Stop Ruddock in Six

Tommy Morrison stopped Donovan (Razor) Ruddock with five seconds remaining in the sixth round Saturday night in Kansas City, Mo., to capture the lightly regarded International Boxing Council’s vacant heavyweight title and resurrect his flagging career.

Morrison (45-2-1) appeared tired in the fourth round, but came back and knocked down Ruddock with a powerful left hook early in the sixth before finishing him off with a right-left combination. Ruddock, fighting only his second bout in two years, did not go down, but the fight was stopped.

The first left hook toppled Ruddock, and referee Ron Lipton knew the Canadian fighter was in trouble.

Ruddock (28-5-1) rocked Morrison with a couple of lefts earlier in the round, but Morrison, his left eye and cheek reddened, continued his attack.

On the undercard, Roberto Duran, 44, won the IBC super-middleweight title and improved to 95-12 with a seventh-round technical knockout of Roni Martinez (17-1).

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Sammy Fuentes, bleeding from a gash over his right eye most of the fight, took a 12-round split decision over Hector Lopez to retain his World Boxing Organization junior-welterweight title in Las Vegas. Fuentes, from Hermosa Beach, won by scores of 114-111 on judge Carol Castellano’s card and 113-112 on Dave Moretti’s card. The other judge, Raul Caiz, gave Lopez, of Glendale, a 113-112 edge. Fuentes is 31-13-1, Lopez is 28-4-1.

Soccer

All of the top players from the U.S. World Cup team except forward Eric Wynalda will gather today for a game in Foxboro, Mass., against Nigeria that starts the U.S. Cup ’95 tournament. Wynalda is with his German club.

A Singapore court found Lebanese-born Abbas Saad, 27, guilty of match-fixing and fined him $35,970 for conspiring to fix games last year in the Football Assn. of Malaysia Premier League.

Miscellany

Syracuse must surrender its 1990 national lacrosse title and two scholarships for 1996-97 after the NCAA decided the Orangemen violated rules when Nancy Simmons, the wife of Coach Roy Simmons Jr., co-signed a car loan for star player Paul Gait in 1990. . . . Laker center Vlade Divac will play for Yugoslavia at the European basketball championships after the Yugoslav Basketball Assn. agreed to pay for his insurance.

Todd Wetzel scored three goals to lead the Anaheim Bullfrogs (2-0) to a 12-5 victory over the Oklahoma Coyotes (2-1) in a Roller Hockey International game before 9,371 at The Pond of Anaheim. . . . Brown held off a late surge by Princeton to win its third consecutive men’s varsity eight title at the National Collegiate Rowing Championships in Bantam, Ohio. The women’s varsity eight title went to Princeton. . . . Harvard’s varsity heavyweight crew beat Yale for the 11th consecutive year in the 130th renewal of the nation’s oldest intercollegiate sporting event.

Auto Racing

Michael Schumacher starts on the pole for today’s Formula One Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal after his Friday lap time of 1 minute 27.661 seconds--112.795 m.p.h.--was not surpassed in the second day of qualifying. . . . Robby Gordon crashed for the second day in a row, failed to improve on his opening-round speed and still hung onto the pole position for today’s Detroit Grand Prix with a speed of 108.318 m.p.h. . . . Top fuel leader Scott Kalitta set track records of 4.743 seconds and 306.12 m.p.h. in qualifying for the Oldsmobile Springnationals at National Trail Raceway at Kirkersville, Ohio. . . . Larry Pearson won the Carolina Pride-Red Dog 250 NASCAR Busch Grand National stock car race at Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Speedway.

Football

T.C. Wright scored on a four-yard run with 1:54 to play as the Amsterdam Admirals rallied from an eight-point deficit in the final five minutes to win, 37-25, in Duesseldorf, Germany, in the World League of American Football. In another WLAF game, backup quarterback Terry Karg threw for one touchdown and rushed for another as the Scotland Claymores defeated the Monarchs, 22-9, in London.