Chavez Jr Heads To Big Bear, Donaire To Oxnard
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is training in Big Bear, Ca. to get set for his upcoming fight against Jason LeHoullier on Top Rank's Latin Fury 10 on July 25.
Chavez Jr is working with a trainer from Velocity Sports Peformance which is headed by John John Parks in Los Angeles.
"I've got to get stronger and this is the right way to do it, doing what the trainers from Velocity are asking me to do," Chavez Jr said.
He will take on LeHoullier in the resort city of Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico.
Chavez Jr and LeHoullier will be at a Top Rank press conference at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles on Monday, July 20.
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Nonito 'Filipino Flash' Donaire said today he will relocate his training camp to Oxnard, Ca. in a few weeks to wire in for his fight against Rafael Concepcion of Panama on Top Rank's Pinoy Power 2 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on August 15. Donaire will be in the same gym as world champion Steven Luevano of La Puente, Ca. Luevano will defend his world featherweight title, taking on Bernabe Concepcion on the same card. Tickets at $200, $100 and $50 go on sale Saturday, noontime, at www.ticketmaster.com
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Rafael Concepcion of Panama is trained by Hector Roca at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Fight writer buzz: Dave Weinberg of the Atlantic City Press began covering boxing at a small newspaper in the seashore city of Wildwood, N.J. in 1982. Four years later he was the backup fight writer to Dave Bontempo at the Atlantic City Press. Soon after Dave Weinberg became the lead boxing writer and today he is one of the top reporters and feature writers on the boxing beat.
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RIP Alexis Arguello: Photographer Chris Farina of Top Rank said his first major fight was in 1983, when he was assigned by the Sports Form, a gaming weekly distributed in Las Vegas sports books to go to Caesars Palace and 'take pictures of the main event' -- Alexis Arguello vs. Aaron Pryor. Chris: "You never forget your first major fight. I was just devastated when I heard the news about Alexis."