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Las Vegas - WBA junior welterweight Amir Khan (23-1, 17 knockouts) will be ringside at the Mandalay Bay to watch the pay-per-view rematch between WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5-1, 37 KOs) and challenger Juan Diaz (35-3, 17 KOs). Marquez is the leading contender to become Khan's next opponent. HBO has set aside December 11 for Khan's next fight.
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is in Las Vegas to watch this Saturday's rematch between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz at the Mandalay Bay. If Marquez comes out with the win, he is likely to face Khan on December 11 on HBO.
Everything appears to be moving forward for a junior middleweight clash between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito on November 13, with the vacant WBC 154-pound title at stake.
According to Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, IBF featherweight champion Orlando Salido is the preferred choice to fight WBA champion Yuriorkis Gamboa on September 11 in Las Vegas. Salido, if approved by HBO, would replace the injured Elio Rojas. BoxingScene.com reported Monday night that Rojas, the WBC champion, suffered a shoulder injury in training camp, and his participation in the fight with Gamboa was unlikely.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is standing his ground. The back and forth accusations continue with respect to the negotiations connected to the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao mega-fight. Bob Arum, CEO for Top Rank, advised media members on July 16 that his company had been negotiating for several weeks with Mayweather's manager, Al Haymon, to stage a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight on November 13.
Robert Garcia is a rising star in the world of training. Garcia's stable of clients is growing by the month. On November 13, one of Garcia's fighters, Antonio Margarito, will face the biggest challenge of his long career when he steps in the ring with Manny Pacquiao for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title.
WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is not interested in a fall bout with unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto, according to a source within Cotto's camp.
This Saturday, WBO and WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5-1, 37 KOs) will collide with Juan Diaz (35-3, 17 KOs) in a rematch of their Feburary 2009 Fight of the Year, which was won by Marquez via ninth-round knockout. The fight will be carried on HBO Pay-Per-View.
Following Timothy Bradley's welterweight win over Carlos Abregu on July 17 in California, promoter Gary Shaw took a stand against his promotional colleagues, Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions.
Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum has indicated that Antonio Margarito will face Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 13 for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title either in Las Vegas, if Margarito's license is renewed there, or Monterrey, Mexico. If it happens, Pacquiao would be pursuing a record eighth crown in as many different weight classes against the 32-year-old Margarito.