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BoxingScene.com caught up to New Jersey junior middleweight Pawel Wolak, who will meet former WBA titlist Yuri Foreman of Brooklyn, N.Y., on the undercard of a March 12 main event featuring current WBA junior middleweight king Miguel Cotto against ex-champion Ricardo Mayorga at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
Roger Mayweather, the uncle and trainer of six-time titlist Floyd Mayweather, continues to believe that eight-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, is taking performance enhancing drugs. Manny Pacquiao has already initiated a legal case, seeking compensatory and punitive damages for defamation of character, in December 2009.
Assuming that he gets beyond an April 16 clash with unbeaten Paul McCloskey at the MEN Arean in England, then Amir Khan (24-1, 17KOs) will stake his WBA junior welterweight title against his WBC/WBO counterpart Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11KOs) on July 23, likely at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Moments after welterweight prospect Jesse Vargas (14-0 with seven knockouts) had earned a unanimous, eight-round decision over Cristian Favela (19-31-7, 10 KOs) at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California, the trainer of Vargas, Roger Mayweather, had a lot to say about WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach. Roger is the uncle and trainer of Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Last Saturday at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, unbeaten welterweight Mike Jones (24-0, 18 knockouts) successfully out-maneuvered Jesus Soto Karass (25-6-3, 16 KOs), boxing him bloody over the course of a crowd-pleasing, brutal, twelve round rematch that was promoted by Top Rank Promitions, the nearly 6-foot tall pugilist did not escape the evening unscathed.
Former three time welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 knockouts) has no problem heading directly to a summer rematch with WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KOs), assuming Cotto gets beyond a March 12, Showtime pay per view televised encounter with former world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 22 KOs). Margarito dethroned Cotto as WBA welterweight king with an 11th-round knockout in July of 2008.
A former IBF super featherweight champion who compiled a record of 35-3 with 25 knockouts, trainer, Robert Garcia, recently worked the corner of former WBA interim super flyweight titlist Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 knockouts) for last Saturday's HBO-televised, Top Rank Promotions second-round knockout of WBO and WBC bantamweight king Fernando Montiel (44-3-2, 34 KOs).
Last Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nonito Donaire (26-1, 18 KOs) captured the WBO and WBC bantamweight titles with a stunning two round knockout of Fernando Montiel (44-3-2, 34 knockouts). It was the Filipino fighter's 25th straight victory and 10th knockout in his past 12 fights at the Mandalay Bay in an HBO-televised thriller.
LAS VEGAS -- On February 12, less than a month after his 37th birthday, five-time titlist Marco Antonio Barrera of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, scored a knockdown in each round on the way to a second-round stoppage of 43-year-old journeyman Jorge Arias of Providence, R.I.
WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao has promised to retire at the right time. He returns on May 7 against three-division, five-time titlist, Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 knockouts), at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Pacquiao wants to go out at his best, and not become an aging fighter who continues to fight, and continues to lose to the younger generation.