
Lewkowicz: Sergio Martinez Open To WBC, HBO Return
Last Thursday, December 29th, lineal middleweight champion Sergio Martinez addressed the media in his native Argentina.

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Last Thursday, December 29th, lineal middleweight champion Sergio Martinez addressed the media in his native Argentina.

Fresh into the New Year, trainer Tony Martin is taking on a new project in the form of once-beaten junior welterweight prospect Steve Claggett.

For the next month it looks like trainer Robert Garcia will be dividing his time between his bases in Oxnard, California and the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. Garcia will be working with former lightweight champion Brandon Rios while at home and while in Vegas his duties will be tied to champion Nonito Donaire, who is eyeing a February 4th HBO showcase against Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. for the vacant WBO junior featherweight title.

Things have changed ever so slightly for world champion Nonito Donaire as he heads into his February 4th HBO-televised showdown with Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. in San Antonio, Texas. The 29-year old Donaire is spending his training camp for this contest in Las Vegas, Nevada, as opposed to the city of San Carlos, California, where he had spent past regimens at the Undisputed Boxing Gym. The Bohol, Philippines native can now be found inside of the Top Rank Gym as he dives into his preparation for the former champion Vazquez, a fight that is a little over five weeks away.

The past few days I have focused much of my coverage towards Nonito Donaire and his recently setup camp in Las Vegas. Donaire vies for the vacant WBO junior featherweight championship against former champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. on February 4th in Houston, Texas and it could kick-start a potentially huge 2012 for him.

WBC and WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire will be moving up in weight on February 4th when he faces off with former titlist Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. for the vacant WBO junior featherweight belt at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

If you stop by the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas these days, you will spot a new face on the scene. Once-beaten bantamweight prospect Alexis Santiago is working ardently under the eye of trainer Roger Mayweather as he eyes a return to the ring in the first quarter of 2012. Santiago took up an interest in the sport at the age of fifteen and as a professional he has been gaining valuable experience by testing himself against a bevy of world-class pugilists in sparring and he is already a great fit at Floyd’s personal gym.

Last week the boxing world was up in arms with the announcement of Floyd Mayweather Jr. being sentenced to 90 days in jail for his involvement in a September 2010 domestic violence case with his former fiancé’ Josie Harris and two of his children.

At the moment trainer Jeff Mayweather is far away from his Las Vegas bases, currently tucked away in the city of Tokyo in Japan.

The biggest news of this boxing holiday happened on Wednesday, when Floyd Mayweather Jr. was sentenced to 90 days in jail in relation to his role in a September 2010 domestic violence case involving two of his children and their mother, Josie Harris.