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After fighting twice in Miami, Yunieski Gonzalez has just signed a contract to fight Oleksandr Gvozdyk on April 8, in a fight that will server as the HBO televised co-feature to Vasyl Lomachenko defending his WBO junior lightweight title against Jason Sosa.
Former two division world champion Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez has given high praise to his countryman, the hard punching Lucas Matthysse, who will soon return to the ring in the coming months.
Former world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (25-1, 17 KOs) and Cuban coach Ismael Salas have buried the hatchet on their recent snafu from last December. The two appeared in a video together, showing that they are once again on the same page with each other.
Healthy, refreshed and ready to fight, Argentine puncher Lucas Matthysse will return from a 19-month on May 6th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. As BoxingScene.com previously reported, Matthysse will appear in a featured fight as part of the HBO pay-per-view undercard to the all-Mexican clash between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
Former world champion Jorge Rodrigo 'La Hyena' Barrios (50-4-1, 35KOs) has been released from prison. He was scheduled to be paroled next month, but came out Thursday and will be on probation after spending two years and three months in the Olmos maximum security prison in Argentina. He will remain on probation.
According to top featherweight contender Jonathan Barros and his handlers, the boxer tested "negative" for Hepatitis C - in a separate test conducted over the weekend. On Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Barros was scheduled to have a mandatory fight with IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby - but prior to the official weigh-in on Friday, the fight was canceled when the Nevada State Athletic Commission advised the media that Barros did not "meet the medical requirements" to get licensed to fight.
Rances Barthelemy (25-0, 13 KO) is expected to put himself back in line for a world title, this time in the junior welterweight division, with an April IBF eliminator being worked on. According to the Cuban former world champion, there are ongoing talks to stage a final eliminator against Kiryl Relikh (21-1, 19 KO), and the winner would become the mandatory challenger to current IBF junior welterweight world champion Julius Indongo.
Light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (18-1, 13 KO's) is looking to start off 2017 in a very big way, which is why he accepted the IBF's invitation to take part in a final world title eliminator against the very dangerous Artur Beterbiev (11-0, 11 KO's).
There is no end in sight for the court ordered ban that was dropped last month on the motion picture "El Inca," which premiered in Venezuela on November 25. The movie details the tragic story of two division world champion Edwin Valero, who was viewed as a potential superstar and he was being groomed by Top Rank and Teiken for a pay-per-view fight with Manny Pacquiao.
A touch of hopeful destiny for former world champion Randy "El Matador" Caballero. According to Marcos Caballero, father and trainer of Randy, they were advised that his son's next fight has been scheduled for March 23 in Palm Springs, California, as part of Golden Boy Promotions' new fight series on ESPN.