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At the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, California, super Featherweight Abraham Lopez (12-0, 10KOs) stopped Willshaun Boxley (5-7, 3 KOs) after three rounds of a scheduled six round bout. The sixth loss in a row for Boxley. Lopez, 22-years-old, gets his second win of the year and stops his third straight opponent.
Los Angeles, California - The main event at Staples Center will feature the fourth war between Mexican featherweight rivals Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez. The first bout was won by Marquez by TKO. Vazquez stopped Marquez in the second fight to get revenge. The third was an all-out war with Vazquez winning a close twelve round split decision.
In only a few short hours, welterweights Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley will clash in one of the most anticipated fights of the last few years. The HBO pay-per-view will begin in a few short hours, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mosley's WBA welterweight championship is not on the line. Almost ten years of bad blood and trash talking will finally get settled in the ring. Mosley takes on the opponent he's been chasing for the last three years. Mayweather faces the guy nobody had expected him to fight.
BoxingScene.com was advised by manager Luis DeCubas Jr. that Joel Casamayor will indeed face Joan Guzman on the HBO pay-per-view undercard to the rematch between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz, scheduled to take place on July 31 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Heavyweights Chris Arreola and Tomasz Adamek stepped on the scales for their very anticipated showdown on Saturday night at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California. Arreola came on the scale and weighed-in at 250.5-pounds, 13-pounds less than he weighed for the December fight with Brian Minto and his lowest weight since June 2008 when he weighed 239-pounds and knocked out Chazz Witherspoon. Arreola's body looked slimmer, with more definition. Adamek, the former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion, looked very trim at 217-pounds
While the boxing world eagerly awaits the next instalment of the famed 24/7 series, which features series regular Floyd Mayweather Jr. and first timer "Sugar" Shane Mosley, the boxing press was given a link to preview the fifth episode of Showtime's series Fight Camp 360.
Think of St. Patrick’s Day, and naturally the one thing that comes to mind is the color green.
The non-televised portion of Showtime's card from Agua Caliente in Rancho Mirage, California featured a good mix of up and coming prospects along side some grizzled veteran fighters.
At Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, Salvador Sanchez stopped Trinidad Mendoiza in three. The newphew of the great Mexican warrior clearly isn't reminding anyone of his uncle but his agression is enough to drop Mendoza in the 2nd with a body shot and finish the job with another body shot at 1:23 of the 3rd round. Sanchez improves to 14-3-2 with 8KOs while Mendoza stumbles to 28-25-2.
At Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, the opening bout of the night saw heavyweight contender Cedric Boswell win an uninspiring unaninmous decision over Arreola sparring partner Cisse Salif. Boswell seemed content to box on the outside while Salif obliged. Boswell improves to 31-1 with 24 KOs while Salif falls to 23-16 and 21KOs.