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The legal adviser for Celestino Caballero, Rogelio Espiño, has sent an offer to Osvaldo Rivera, the promoter for WBA "regular" featherweight champion Jonathan Victor Barros. Caballero and Espino have no problem with the proposed date of June 4. They are attempting to bring the fight to the Arena Roberto Duran in Panama. They know the task won't be easy. Caballero is Barros' mandatory challenger.
After taking a few days off to enjoy the carnival festivities in Panama, the World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight champion Anselmo "Chemito" Moreno returned to the gym to resume training. The opponent and return date is unkown. He may possibly fight Lorenzo Parra in a bout that was previously postponed several times. Moreno declined an offer of $300K to face WBC/WBO champion Nonito Donaire in the United States. He waits for a larger sum to come through.
Members of Celestino Caballero's camp have denied reports of a scheduled fight on June 4 with "regular" featherweight champion Jonathan Barros (32-1, 18KOs). On February 5, the WBA gave Barros 180-days to defend his title against Caballero (34-3, 23KOs), the mandatory challenger. Barros has mentioned the possibility of a June 4th bout, but according to Rogelio Espino, the legal adviser of Caballero, the two sides "have not started negotiating." Espino wants to bring the fight to Panama and admits that it won't be easy. Caballero and members of his team have concerns about facing Barros in Argentina.
Everything is now pointing in the direction of a rematch between WBA 154-pound champion Miguel Cotto and his Mexican rival Antonio Margarito. In 2008, Margarito (30-7, 27KOs) stopped Cotto (36-2, 29KOs) in the eleventh round. The two Top Rank promoted fighters are possibly going to face each other for a second time on July 16, in either New Jersey or Las Vegas.
Fernando Beltran of Zanfer Promotions, co-promoter of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., would like to see his boxer face Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in 2011. Alvarez is the WBC champion at 154-pounds. Chavez is going to fight Sebastian Zbik on June 4 for the WBC middleweight title. Beltran doesn't see the weight difference as a problem. Alvarez was unable to make his recent weight of 150-pounds for the bout with Matthew Hatton.
As days go by, Marcos "El Chino" Maidana is getting his body in top form. When he arrived more than two weeks ago to Mexico City, he weighed 158-pounds, and now after two weeks of training under Ruddy Perez, he looks to be around 149-pounds. He said that he expects to drop a few more pounds before before traveling to Las Vegas for his April 9 clash with Tijuana's Erik "Terrible" Morales. The Argentine fighter hopes to travel to Las Vegas 10 days prior to the fight. Under Perez, Maidana feels stronger, faster and more confident.
Two of the boxers who plan to sit ringside at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, are Juan Manuel Marquez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Both fighters gave their predictions on the main event of the evening, where Miguel Cotto will defend his WBA junior middleweight title against Ricarod Mayorga.
According to reports in Panama, World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight champion Anselmo "Chemito" Moreno (30-1, 10KOs) has rejected an offer to face WBC/WBO champion Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18KOs) on May 28 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Moreno's agent, Roberto Grimaldo, was informed by the boxer than offer of $300,000 is insufficient. The message came through Chemito's wife.
Trainer Al Bonanni, who put Ricardo Mayorga in shape for Saturday's fight against Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, expects a very exciting fight. He agrees with Emanuel Steward, the trainer of Cotto, that a twelve round decision is not going to happen. One of the fighters is getting knocked out. Bonnani saw Cotto take a lot of punishment in most of his recent fights. He wants to see what Cotto has left in the early rounds.
There is a growing debate in the Mexican press and a number Mexican boxers were polled by Sal Rodriguez. They were asked one question, on which young Mexican boxer is better - Saul "Canelo" Alvarez or Julio Cesar Chavez. Many of the established veterans were on the side of Chavez.