Barrios Stills Wants The "Princess"
RODRIGO BARRIOS, the WBO super featherweight champion, is waiting for his battle against number one contender, Janos Nagy, to take place at the Staples Center in California on May 20.
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Garay To Headline Luna Park Event
LUNA PARK ANNOUNCED a new boxing card to take place on April 8. In the main event, Hugo Hernán Garay, the national and Latino WBO light heavyweight champion will fight Mexican Gustavo Enriquez (14-5-0, 11KO), from Ciudad Juárez. The Fedelatin (WBA) belt will be at stake.
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Jorge Castro; The Miracle Man
IN THE EARLY HOURS of June 17 of 2005, Jorge Castro faced death at close range. He was aboard his car and, in the middle of the fog, he crushed it against a tree. During the next month, we spent 19 days in coma.
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Valcarcel's Trip To Argentina, Says Hamed Wants Barrios
Recently, WBO PRESIDENT, Francisco Valcárcel, had been in Argentina during a three day trip. First of all, he gave a lot of facilities for poor children at Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires province. More than 100 kids received backpacks, pencils, copybooks and another kind of utilities for school. In the same day, Valcàrcel, in the name of the WBO, gave sports goods for the Young National Argentine Team, the female National Team and for another amateur boxers. The bouts were held in the same place, at Tres de Febrero.
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Castro and Chacon, Different Strokes
PABLO CHACON, former WBO super featherweight champion, is fighting a new kind of battle. The former bronze medal winner at Atlanta, will have surgery on both eyes, for detached retinas. Chacon, who was waiting for a title shot against Rodrigo Barrios, must wait two months for to know if can persist in the boxing business, at least with gloves. “Health first, of course –says Chacon-, I must think in myself now. I am training some young boxers in Mendoza, in my gym. I don’t know if I will continue training boxers or just correcting them. But I don’t quit boxing, for sure”.
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Tito Lectoure - Mr. Boxing
JUAN CARLOS LECTOURE was Tito in the world of boxing. Everybody knows him as that. And everybody knew that this word was more powerful than a hundred signatures or contracts. Tito passed on March 1st, 2002, at 65. He was retired from boxing since 1987, when he closed the Luna Park Stadium for the activity. “I love boxing, but I am tired of his people”, said once.
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Jorge Barrios is Working Hard
ALBERTO ANDRADA used to be a real prospect as an amateur. He had some pro fights and a detached retina stopped him, but he didn’t quit boxing. He started to train and teach. Today, at 68, he has worked in the corner of some true champions as Victor Emilio Galindez or Juan Martin Coggi, among others. And, by now, he is the trainer of Jorge Rodrigo Barrios, who is working for his fight with Janos Nagy on for March 24 at Las Vegas.
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Mamani, The Cobra from Argentina
JAVIER MAMANI, having been born in Salta, in the warm North of Argentina, land of boxing. Old fashioned boxing.
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Baldomir: "Gatti is Next on July 22, Judah Will Win"
ACCORDING TO Carlos Baldomir, he signed a document, accepting the WBA belt. “I sent it by mail and fax, too”, says Baldomir. “But, I never received an answer. And nobody told me I am not the WBA champion”.
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Carlos Baldomir and The WBA
CARLOS BALDOMIR defeated Zab Judah on February 7, winning the WBC and WBC belts in the process. But, did he really win both belts? The answer is no. During the TV broadcast in Argentina, Sebastián Contursi, a journalist with ESPN and a contact for the WBA in Argentina, placed a call to the TV station announcing that the WBA will recognize the winner as champion.
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