Anthony Hanshaw did nothing spectacular but most everything well Friday to advance to the semifinals of Showtime's super middleweight tournament with a whitewash of overmatched Esteban Camou.

Hanshaw (20-0, 13 knockouts) won every round on all three judges' cards to advance to the semifinals in October against late replacement LaFarrell Bunting. Bunting replaced injured Sakio Bika and stopped Jose Luis Herrera in the fifth round of the first bout.

Hanshaw was too quick and too good a boxer for Camou, who pressed forward the entire fight but didn't have the arsenal to counter Hanshaw.

"It was A-1," Hanshaw said. "I trained hard. I had good sparring and I worked. He's a tough guy. He came to fight. I had to keep with my stick and not get too anxious."

Hanshaw began slowly but started to find the range with his right in the third round and began dropping it in consistently. By the fifth, he was mixing in a left hook and befuddled Camou (18-2), who kept waving Hanshaw in but took nothing but shots to the nose for his trouble.

Hanshaw, a Summerlin resident who said he bruised his left hand in the fourth, nearly ended the fight in the seventh round. He ripped Camou with a left and then a straight right, which not only snapped Camou's head back but sent him into the ropes.

Hanshaw jumped on him and landed a series of hard shots, including an uppercut that caused Camou's knees to sag. But Hanshaw seemed to tire and backed off to catch his breath, allowing Camou to survive.

But all that got Camou was three more rounds of punishment.

"He didn't give me any trouble," Hanshaw said. "I had the layoff and it was good for me to get the rounds.

"I stuck to the plan the whole way. I know there is no fighter in the tournament that I can't beat."

In the opening bout, Bunting gave up a fishing trip with his grandfather to take the bout as a late replacement for Bika, who had to pull out because of an elbow injury.

But Bunting (16-1-1, 16 KOs) made the sacrifice worthwhile when he stopped Herrera (14-2) at 1:20 of the fifth round to advance to the semifinals against Hanshaw.

The first three rounds were dreadful, with next to no punches landed by either man. Both opened up somewhat in the fourth, and the fight turned Bunting's way late in the round when he landed a quick combination.

He pressed the advantage in the fifth, hurting Herrera with an uppercut that forced the Colombian to sag onto the ropes. Referee Kenny Bayless called it a knockdown, ruling that the ropes kept Herrera upright.

Bunting didn't waste his advantage, landing at least 15 hard shots to the head, forcing Bayless to stop it.

"It feels great to win and advance to the next round," Bunting said. "I was trying to bait him with the jab and catch him with the uppercut."

The winner of the tournament will win the IBO super middleweight title and earn $50,000.