By Rick Reeno
Willie Savannah, manager/trainer of former unified lightweight champion Juan Diaz, has informed BoxingScene.com that a fight with Juan Manuel Marquez is close to done for February 28, with HBO televising. The venue is still not finalized, but Savannah has informed me that Marquez has reportedly changed his stance on taking the fight in Diaz’s backyard of Houston, Texas.
“Las Vegas is becoming a ghost town. If Marquez wants to make the kind of money that he wants to make - he has to come to Houston. He can’t make that kind of money is Las Vegas. His fight with Joel Casamayor did nothing out there,” Savannah said.
Savannah says the undercard may feature another Houston favorite, Rocky Juarez, facing WBO featherweight champion Steven Luevano.
