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After rising star Vergil Ortiz Jr. moved up to welterweight in 2019, reeled off four knockout victories against a better grade of opposition than he had been facing, and was widely acclaimed as the prospect of the year, he and Golden Boy Promotions had big plans for him in 2020.
Former junior featherweight world titlist Julio Ceja has tested positive for Covid-19, which has forced him to withdraw from a WBC featherweight title elimination bout against Eduardo Ramirez, a source with knowledge of the situation told BoxingScene.
Welterweight contender Vergil Ortiz Jr., the explosive 2019 prospect of the year, has been moving up the ladder at quick pace and his promoter, Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya, believes he is ready to face the best the division has to offer.
As Oscar De La Hoya, who has not fought since 2008, continues training and planning to come out of retirement there has been much discussion about who might serve as the Golden Boy’s comeback opponent.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is planning an exotic location to host his company’s next event, which is scheduled to be headlined by rising lightweight star Ryan Garcia taking on Luke Campbell for a vacant interim world title.
The California State Athletic Commission on Monday released heavyweight Alexander Flores’ $80,000 purse after initially withholding it for possible lack of effort in a first-round knockout loss to former two-time world title challenger Luis “King Kong” Ortiz on Nov. 7.
When Canelo Alvarez was looking for an opponent to fight this past May on Cinco de Mayo weekend, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the sports world for several months, super middleweight world titlist Caleb Plant was one of the names prominently mentioned as a possibility.
By Dan Rafael - Top Rank chairman Bob Arum has taken heat for the comments he recently made about losing money on welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford fights and how Crawford, in his view, needs to do a better job bringing attention to himself, but Arum said he doesn’t care about the criticism and stands by his comments. Arum said he is upset because he...
Former three-time middleweight world title challenger Juan Domingo Roldan, the powerful and rugged Argentinean, died from Covid-19 on Wednesday in his hometown of San Francisco, Argentina. He was 63.
Heavyweight contender Michael Hunter has rarely heard a name opponent voice a desire to fight him, so he was quite pleased when fast-rising Filip Hrgovic did just that. Hrgovic had just polished off veteran Rydell Booker in the fifth round, becoming the first man to stop him, on Nov. 7 on the Devin Haney-Yuriorkis Gamboa card when he said he was willing to fight Hunter.