Los Angeles, California - Junior middleweight Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Alfredo Angulo had a tense face to face during their kickoff press conference to officially announce thir March 8 showdown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight will headline a Showtime Pay-Per-View event. Both boxers have promised to secure very impressive victories due to the face that both suffered devastating defeats in 2013.
Welterweight Carlos Abregu threw and landed nearly twice as many punches as Antonin Decarie, who landed in single digits in every round but the tenth. Abregu's best round was the ninth- he landed 15 of 48 power shots.
Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield, Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina - Former champion Kiko Martinez (28-4, 20KOs) returned for the first time since getting knocked out by Carl Frampton in February, and put away Damian Marchiano (18-10) in the second round of their super bantamweight fight. In a minor upset, super flyweight Diego Luis Liriano (9-3, 3KOs) won a six round unanimous decision Ivan Ruiz (9-2-1, 4KOs).
Welterweight puncher Carlos Abregu's the busier fighter and hits harder. Antonin Decarie will have to throw more than 44 punches per round to get a decision win in Argentina. Abregu's recent opponents: Dulorme, Verdu, Gutierrez, Bradley, Garcia. Decarie's recent opponents: Lupo, Perez, Mbaye, Garcia
LAS VEGAS, NEV. – Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum announced today that the World Boxing Council (WBC) No.1-rated welterweight contender CARLOS “El Potro” ABREGU had signed an exclusive contract with Top Rank. Abregu, one of the division’s most exciting fighters, will make his Top Rank and his 2013 debut Next Saturday! April 27. He’ll be facing Top-Five contender Antonin Decarie, in Buenos Aires, in a 12-round welterweight bout for the vacant WBC Silver Championship. The Abregu vs. Decarie rumble will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing®, as part of a tripleheader which will also feature the Sergio Martinez vs. Martin Murray WBC middleweight title fight, beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.
Middleweight David Lemieux (28-2, 27KOs) and welterweight Antonin Decarie (27-1, 8KOs) are putting in work at the gym. Decarie is scheduled to face Carlos Abregu (34-1, 28KOs), for the vacant WBC silver title, in the co-feature slot on the Sergio Martinez-Martin Murray card on April 27th at Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photos by Robert Levesque/AR Photozone.
As BoxingScene.com previously reported, promoter Sampson Lewkowicz is putting together the entire undercard for the anticipated event in Argentina on April 27th. Taking place at Estadio José Amalfitani in Buenos Aires, WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez will headline the show with a title defense against Martin Murray. HBO will televise. The entire card, comprised of seven fights, will be shown worldwide. Lewkowicz along with Lou DiBella and a local promoter from Argentina are staging the event but the three parties agreed that Lewkowicz would be in charge of making the matches on the undercard.