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Fernando Beltran, president of Zanfer Promotions, says the decision for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to cancel a planned September fight, and head straight to a showdown with Miguel Cotto on December 4, was the right one to make. Chavez Jr. was going to fight on September 11 before pulling out. Zanfer co-promotes Chavez with Top Rank. Chavez will challenge Cotto for the WBA junior middleweight title.
Featherweight Ivan "Choco" Hernandez (27-4, 17KOs), ranked tenth in the world by the WBC, is returning to action on September 3 against Roberto Tamayo (11-6, 6KOs) at the Gimnasio Oscar “Tigre” García in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Hernandez is trying to get another title shot after being stopped by WBC super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka last October.
WBC featherweight champion Elio Rojas went through with his surgery to remove a bone fragment from his right hand and to correct an issue with his left shoulder. The surgery went well. The injuries prevented Rojas from moving forward with a planned unifcation with WBA champion Yuriorkis Gamboa on HBO. He was replaced by IBF champion Orlando Salido.
Fresh from his twelve round decision win over rival Nehomar Cermeno, WBA bantamweight champion Anselmo Moreno (30-1-1, 10 KO) is aiming to be a part of Showtime's planned bantamweight tournament. The Showtime network is putting together a Super Six style tournament with some of the top bantamweights being involved.
WBA president Gilberto Mendoza reports that cruiserweight champion Guillermo "Felino" Jones (36-3, 28KOs) of Panama is about to be stripped of his crown. He won the WBA title with a knockout of Firat Arslan in September 2008. All sorts of issues outside of the ring and fight postponements have caused Jones too sit out for nearly two years, but the title is being held hostage around his waist. The WBA will hold a meeting to decide his fate. It seems they have finally had enough.
Former flyweight champion Edgar Sosa has received medical clearance to fight in the co-feature to Erik Morales' clash with Willie Limond on September 11 at Plaza de Toros in Mexico. Two weeks ago Sosa stopped Venezuelan José "Olympic" Varela in four rounds. He injured his left thumb during the victory and there was some doubt as to whether he could appear on the show. A doctor has officially cleared him to start training for the big card. Sosa will likely fight an opponent from Asia.
There are continued rumblings in Mexico that WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel (43-2, 33KOs) is going to possibly defend his title in September against former champion Cristian Mijares (39-6-2, 17KOs). It's being reported that both fighters want to make the match. There are talks going on behind the scenes but it's not clear how serious they are.
Maybe the most underrated fighter in the sport showed off why again on Saturday night at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama. 25-year old WBA Bantamweight titlist Anselmo Moreno (30-1-1, 10 KO) of San Miguelito, Panama, notched his seventh title defense with a split decision victory over 30-year old Nehomar Cermeno (19-2, 11 KO), Panamanian born and fighting out of Barcelona, Venezuela. The fight was the second in a row between the two fighters, a split decision win for Moreno in March leading the WBA to mandate an immediate return.
At the Arena Roberto Duran, Panama City, Panama, middleweight contender Gennady Golovkin (19-0, 16KOs) demolished Milton Nunez (21-2-1, 19KOs) in the first round to win the interim-WBA title. Golovkin attacked Nunez from the start and battered him with both hands until Nunez dropped. He made it up but seemed to be too hurt to continue.
At the Club Deportivo Libertad in Sunchales, Santa Fe, Argentina, former WBA light heavyweight champion Hugo Hernan Garay (33-5, 18KOs) returned to the ring as a cruiserweight and knocked out Marcelo Leandro Da Silva (19-3) in the first round. Garay was returning from two defeats. He was upset by Gabriel Campillo in June 2009 by majority decision to lose his title belt. In March fight that was held in Mexico, the unexpected happened when Chris Henry stopped Garay in the first round. It was the first time Garay had ever been stopped.