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Yuriorkis Gamboa is ready for a tough featherweight battle with Daniel Ponce de Leon of Mexico, which is scheduled to headine an HBO televised card on September 10 at the Boardlwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The fight will be the first co-promotion between rival promoters Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions since 2009.
At age 36, double world champion Rafael Marquez (39-6, 35KOs) knows that his career in the ring is getting close to the end. He returns on July 16 in Mexico, co-headlining a big show with his older brother, Juan Manuel Marquez. He hopes to finalize the details for a planned fight against WBC super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka in October, but also wants a rematch with Juan Manuel Lopez and a future showdown with Yuriorkis Gamboa.
Former world champion Kermit Cintron is ready for his fight against Carlos Molina on Saturday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Cintron-Molina is the co-feature to Brandon Rios' defense of the WBA lightweight title against Urbano Antillon. Cintron has been inactive since a lackluster technical decision loss to Paul Williams on May 8, 2010, which also took place at the Home Depot Center.
WBA interim-junior welterweight champion Marcos Maidana is planning for a very physical fight with Robert 'The Ghost' Guerrero on August 27th in San Jose, California. Maidana, trained by veteran coach Rudy Perez, doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes that he made against Amir Khan and Erik Morales. Maidana lost a close decision with Khan, and won a close decision over Morales. This time Maidana doesn't want the fight to be close. He wants to leave a big impressions with the judges and the ringside observers.
According to trainer Robert Garcia, a new agreement is close between Top Rank and WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire. Garcia tells Sal Rodriguez that Donaire might return in September or October to avoid being stripped of his two titles, if the new deal with Top Rank goes through. Donaire has been inactive since February's two round knockout of Fernando Montiel. Donaire was caught in the middle of a promotional tussle between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, but a legal decision solidified Top Rank's position as holding a valid contract over Donaire.
WBA super flyweight champion Hugo Cazares is possibly going to make the final defense of his title on Saturday against Arturo Badillo in Mazatlan, Mexico. Cazares told Sal Rodriguez that his weight division is lacking the necessary names who bring any money to the table and it's very difficult to secure opponents who entice the interest of the local television networks. Cazares, who fought and won his current title in Japan, is willing to travel there again for a lucrative fight against WBA "regular" bantamweight champion Koki Kameda.
International agent and promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, has signed a pair of prospects from the Dominican Republic. Lewkowicz, who recently received a promoter's license in Las Vegas, promised to make both boxers champions. Along with local promoter, César “Manguita” Mercedes, Lewkowicz announced the signings of local talents Juan Carlos Mrengue-Abreu and Braulio “El Chavo” Rodríguez.
The tense relationship between the WBA's super champion at bantamweight, Anselmo "Chemito" Moreno, and longtime legal adviser Roberto Grimaldo, is suspended until the two men resolve their issues legally. Both of them have decided to part ways. Alberto Guerra, president of the Boxing Commission of the capital (Comibox) said the agency wilol comply with a court order that suspends the contract between Moreno and Grimaldo, based on the warrant of the Fifth Court of Civil Circuit of Panama.
Julio Cesar "Pingo" Miranda, the world flyweight champion of the WBO, is hungry to win his next fight and believes much bigger things will follow if he does. He says success has not gone to his head and nothing will prevent him from beating former champion Brian Viloria on July 16th in Hawaii. Miranda is training at the same gym where he started his career in Monterrey.
Argentina's Jonathan Barros is upset with the controversy surrounding his recent split decision win over mandatory challenger Celestino Caballero, which allowed him to retain his featherweight world title of World Boxing Association. The bout was held last weekend in Argentina's Mendoza province. Barros appeared on the radio in Argentina and said he was sure that he beat Caballero once and said he was ready to beat him again.