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It's been announced in Venezuela that Jorge 'Golden Boy' Linares will make a defense of his WBC lightweight crown against Mexican challenger Ivan 'Macanón' Cano on October 10 in Caracas Polyhedron. Linares fights in his native Venezuela for the first time in more than five years. After 13 professional fights and winning another championship, he make his return.
A previously reported by BoxingScene.com, Saturday's fight between Braulio Rodriguez (18-1, 17KOs) and Marcos Gabriel Martinez (17-3) came under fire with dive allegations from local press. The two boxers fought for the vacant WBC interim-Latino super featherweight championship at the Radisson Victoria Plaza, Montevideo, Uruguay.
A deal has been reached for former champion Luis "El Nica" Concepcion (32-4, 23KOs) to get a shot at the super flyweight interim world title of the World Boxing Association (WBA), held by champion David "Tornado" Sanchez (28-2-2, 22KOs) of Mexico. The fight will go ahead on the 19th of September at the Multipurpose Center in Hermosillo, Mexico. The information was confirmed by Concepcion's legal adviser Rogelio Espino and Sanchez's promoter Zanfer.
Super bantamweight contender Rafael 'El Torito' Concepcion (18-8-1, 8KOs), 33-years-old, has decided to retire from boxing after getting knocked out over the weekend by Roberto Vasquez in four rounds in Uruguay. Concepción reached his career height in 2008, when he captured the interim super flyweight world title (112 pounds) of the World Boxing Association (WBA) with a 10th-round knockout in Cebu over local favorite AJ Banal. With the victory he became the 26th world champion born in Panama.
Saturday's fight between Braulio Rodriguez (18-1, 17KOs) and Marcos Gabriel Martinez (17-2) has come under fire with dive allegaltions from local press. The two boxers fought for the vacant WBC interim-Latino super featherweight championship at the Radisson Victoria Plaza, Montevideo, Uruguay. In the second round, Rodriguez threw a flurry of punches that sent Martinez down hard and he was in very bad shape upon rising. The referee had no choice but to wave off the fight.
Ricardo 'El Matador' Mayorga is already looking ahead to the future. In a few weeks, on August 29 in Los Angeles, the Nicaragua's veteran will face 'Sugar' Shane Mosley in a rematch of former world champions. In 2008, Mosley fought a close pitched battle with Mayorga and got a knockout victory in the twelfth and final round.
According to sources in Argentina, tough contender Diego Chaves (23-2-1, 19KOs) is going to challenge IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (35-0, 24KOs) on October 24th in Sheffield, England. Chaves has been out of the ring since going to a twelve round draw against current WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley last December in Las Vegas. Prior to that, he was disqualified in the ninth round of a bout against Brandon Rios. Chaves was ahead in the scorecards at the time of the stoppage and some felt the disqualification was unjust.
Edith Soledad Matthysse (14-7-1, 1KOs), the sister of hard-punching junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse, won a ten round unanimous decision over Canada's Jelena Mrdjenovich (35-10-1, 19KOs) to unify the WBC and WBA featherweight titles at the Ce.De.M. N° 2 in Caseros, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Matthysse captured the title last December and was making her first defense of the belt. She got off to a difficult start with a lot of resistance from Mrdjenovich, a former WBC super featherweight world champion who was riding a seven fight win streak including a big decision over tough Melissa Hernandez.
In the last few hours, it was confirmed officially that former flyweight and super flyweight world champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Omar "El Huracan" Narvaez (43-2-2, 23 KOs ), will return for the first time since his knockout defeat to Japanese sensation Naoya Inoue last December. The new challenge for Narvaez, located at No. 5 in the WBO world rankings at 115 pounds, will be held in the second half of September - likely on September 18th - for a regional title under the International Boxing Federation (IBF) against Dominican Diego "La Pantera" Pichardo Liriano (16-6-1, 10 KOs).
IBF junior welterweight champion Cesar Cuenca (48-0, 2KOs) would like to get a crack at Danny Garcia (30-0, 17KOs), the former WBC/WBA champion at 140-pounds. Two weeks ago in Macau, Cuenca captured the vacant IBF title when he easily decisioned undefeated Ik Yang, who was prepared by Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach for the match.