Alberto Machado: record, next fight and profile →
WBA super featherweight champion Alberto "El Explosivo" Machado could very well make his fist world title defense on May 5th, as part of the HBO Pay-Per-View undercard to the middleweight rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez.
CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO - With the presence of two of Oscar de la Hoya's top executives from Golden Boy Promotions, the leading promoters in Puerto Rico at the moment, Miguel Cotto Promotions, announced on Monday at a press conference the resumption of its series of shows on ESPN - beginning with the program that is scheduled for March 24 at the Ponce Fair Complex, which will be starred by the unbeaten Jose 'Chiquiro' Martinez.
Miguel Cotto not only retired from boxing on December 2, but he also left a void in Puerto Rico - where there is still no boxer to take his place as the new superstar. But there is now a litter of young world champions, two of them promoted by Cotto's company, has set their sights on becoming the new stars of the mythical building on 34th Street in Manhattan - Madison Square Garden.
The World Boxing Association Championships Committee ordered this week three big fights, and the respective teams behind the boxers involved must start to negotiate. In the Super Lightweight division, the Cuban Rances Barthelemy (26-0, 13KOs), number one in the ranking, and the Belorussian Kiryl Relikh (21-2, 19KOs), second best, must fight for the title at 140 pounds, which is currently vacant. Both teams have 30 days to negotiate, starting from November 6; if they fail to reach an agreement, the fight will be called to a purse bid.
White Plains, NY/Philadelphia, PA -- Demetrius Andrade, two-time and undefeated world champion, showed that he has the drawing power to go along with his unquestioned ring talent as his bout with undefeated Alantez Fox outdrew both the main event and opening bouts in the ratings last Saturday night by over 90,000 viewers on HBO Boxing After Dark.
Alberto Machado is the new WBA super featherweight titlist after coming from behind to score a knockout of Jezreel Corrales in dramatic fashion this past weekend in Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York. After suffering a knockdown in the fifth round and getting hurt a few other times, Machado, turned things around with a perfectly placed left hand that sent Corrales down to the canvas where he was counted out in the eighth round.
Demetrius Andrade’s victory over Alantez Fox was the most-watched of the three boxing matches HBO televised Saturday night. According to ratings released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research, the Andrade-Fox fight drew a peak audience of 685,000. An average of 613,000 viewers watched Andrade out-box Fox during a 12-round middleweight match that aired from Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.
A busy weekend around the world produced one upset, some predictable results and redemption for a popular Japanese fighter. All in all, the entertainment value was pretty high. Here is a look at the biggest winners and loser.
At Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York, unbeaten featherweight Alberto Machado of Puerto Rico scored an eighth-round knockout of Jezreel Corrales to claim the World Boxing Association super featherweight belt. Panama’s Corrales had lost the title on the scale on Friday when he failed to make weight for the bout. He was ineligible to regain it on Saturday, but that proved moot as Machado recovered from a fifth-round knockdown to seize the title, improving to 19-0 with 16 knockouts. Machado came back from the knockdown to hurt Corrales in the sixth and in the eighth he produced a combination that knocked out the Panamanian at 2:15 of the round.
Machado vs. Corrales Fight Photos Gallery - Puerto Rico earned yet another world champion this year as Alberto "Explosivo" Machado (19-0, 16 KOs) knocked out Jezreel "El Invisible" Corrales (22-2, 8 KOs) in the eighth round of a scheduled 12-round fight to become the WBA World Super Featherweight Champion at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. Along with Miguel Cotto and Jesus Rojas, Machado is the third boxer from Puerto Rico to win a world title within the past two months.