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The WBO's president, Francisco 'Paco' Valcárcel, believes "Sugar" Shane Mosley is the leading candidate to face Manny Pacquiao in his next fight. Pacquiao captured the vacant WBC championship last Saturday at Cowboys Stadium in Texas, with a bruising twelve round decision win over Antonio Margarito. Pacquiao's team have already made it known that Manny will drop the WBC title and return to 147-pounds to defend the WBO title.
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Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has promised that one day he will avenge all of the Mexican boxers who were defeated by Manny Pacquiao. By the end of next year, Alvarez feels he will be ready to take Pacquiao on. He returns on December 4 to defend his WBC silver title at 154 against current IBO welterweight champion Lovemore Ndou. He wasn't too impressed with Pacquiao twelve round beating of Antonio Margarito.
A hot main event has been finalized for January 10 at the Ariake Colosseum inTokyo, Japan. WBA super featherweight champion Takashi Uchiyama (16-0, 13KOs) will make the third defense of the title that he won in January with a knockout of Juan Carlos Salgado. The opponent is none other than WBA-interim champion Jorge Solis (40-2-2, 29KOs) of Mexico. Solis has been on a good roll with recent wins over Francsico Cordero, Mario Santiago and Likar Ramos.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says nothing has changed for the career route of Miguel Cotto. If Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. beats Alfonso Gomez on December 4 in California, Arum is still planning to put him in the ring with Cotto in March 2011. New York and Las Vegas are under consideration to host the fight. Cotto would make the first defense of his WBA junior middleweight title.
The world bantamweight champion of the World Boxing Association (WBA), Panama's Anselmo "Chemito" Moreno (30-1-1, 10KOs) has nothing confirmed for his next fight. Reports in Panama indicate that Chemito will likely sit out until 2011. Despite having offers from Japan and other countries, nothing was ever finalized for his next defense. Because nothing was ever set, Chemito took a long vacation and has yet to return to the gym for training. Chemito has not fought since an August 14 split decision win over Venezuelan rival Nehomar Cermeno.
Daiki Kameda (18-2, 11KOs) will make the second and last defense of his WBA flyweight title against 15th-ranked Romanian Silvio Olteanu (11-3, 5KOs) in a Kameda family triple header at Saitama Super Arena on December 26. Elder brother and former WBA light flyweight and WBC flyweight champion Koki Kameda (23-1, 15KOs), and 19-year-old Tomoki Kameda (16-0, 11KOs), the youngest of the brothers, will fight against opponents to be determined.
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya is confident that sooner or later a Mexican mega-match between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will happen. Alvarez and Chavez are going head to head on Mexican television on December 4. Alvarez faces IBO welterweight champion Lovemore Ndou in Mexico and Chavez will take on Alfonso Gomez in California.
Edgar Sosa knows he can't afford to lose, and he's working really hard in the gym for his fight against the Japanese boxer Masafumi Okubo, set for the 20th of this month in Monterrey. The WBC international flyweight champion had an intense open workout in the Diaz Miron gym, which revealed that he's in excellent shape.