By Rey Colon
Juan Manuel Lopez, who likes face WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido in February in Puerto Rico, said he has an offer to hold his upcoming training camp in Big Bear, California, where many fighters go to train for the secluded high altitude nature of the area.
"I'm going to continue with my current team. We've had 31 wins. It seems that [Top Rank CEO] Bob Arum wants to [go to Big Bear] and we're very interested," Juanma said.
The hard-hitting boxer smirked when he mentioned the name of Filipino boxer Nonito Donaire, the WBC and WBO bantamweight king who wants to go up to 126 pounds in the near future.
"He has said repeatedly that he wants to fight me. I'll fight with him as long as the company approves and the agreement is right. It would be a good fight and interesting but if he wants it at 126 pounds then it would have to be in 2012 because I'm going to move up to 130. I'll do another fight at 126 in February and then in June, but at the end of the year I'm going up," Juanma said.
However, while his focus is on Salido, he doesn't rule out a possible clash with Yuriorkis Gamboa.
"HBO wants it, Showtime wants it, no problem. I'll fight with anyone, anywhere. The Salido fight would be Puerto Rico because [staging it there] wiill be a big success. Puerto Rico's audience wants to see this rematch. But Salido, Gamboa or Donaire, I'll fight anywhere," he said.
