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At Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, WBC Continental Americas welterweight champion Alfonso Gomez (22-4-2, 11KOs) stopped Jose Luis Castillo (60-10-1, 52KOs) after five rounds of action. Castillo may retire from boxing after this loss.
At Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, middleweight contender John Duddy (29-1, 18KOs) won a ten round split decision over Michael Medina (23-2-2, 18KOs). The scores were 96-93 for Duddy, 96-93 for Medina, 96-93 for Duddy. Duddy is being groomed for a June fight with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
Former WBO bantamweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez finished up his training camp with new trainer Nacho Beristain. He faces Antonio Davis in Cancun, Mexico on March 20 in a WBC mandatory eliminator. The winner will get a shot at featherweight champion Elio Rojas. Gonzalez has had a career of ups and downs. He wants to pull off the big win over Davis to get Rojas in the ring.
It's going to a boxing brawl on April 17 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. WBC/WBO middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik and WBC 154-pound champion Sergio Martinez met face to face during a Texas press conference to announce their fight. For much of 2009, Pavlik suffered from a staph infection in his right hand. He promises to make up for his bad stint by putting on a show in April.
Undefeated welterweight contender Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez has no interest in continuing his rivalry with fellow Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. For the last year or two, Alvarez has been calling out Chavez Jr. to an all-Mexican clash. The rivalry became so heated that WBC president Jose Sulaiman had to get involved to settle things down after Alvarez continued to call Chavez a fraud who was living off the name of his famous father.
There are rumors circulating that retired super middleweight king Joe Calzaghe has reached out to the team of his old foe Mikkel Kessler to offer advice on beating WBC champion Carl Froch. Kessler spoke with Ekstra Bladet, and said he would be honored if Calzaghe was willing to help him win. Kessler takes on Froch on April 24 in Denmark. Calzaghe and Froch have had a domestic rivalry for several years.
At Max Schmeling Halle in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany, Marco Huck defends his WBO cruiserweight title against Adam Richards in the main event. Also, IBF heavyweight mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin, under the guidance of new trainer Teddy Atlas, will face Javier Mora.
Antonio Margarito, a three-time former welterweight champion, wants to reclaim his WBO welterweight title. Margarito is scouting the current champion, Manny Pacquiao, at Cowboys Stadium in Texas. He wants the fight bad. Their promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, has mentioned the fight as a possibility for the fall.
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan has vowed to punish Paulie Malignaggi for his comments on the Boxing Truth Audio show. As previously reported weeks ago on BoxingScene.com, Malignaggi, who suspects Manny Pacquiao of using performance enhancing drugs, had similiar thoughts about Khan because he uses the same training team as the Filipino champion.
Paulie Malignaggi is taking some shots at Amir Khan's lack of a name in the United States. Malignaggi takes on Khan for his WBA junior welterweight title on May 15 at New York's WaMu Theater in Madison Square Garden. Malignaggi feels embarrassed on the streets when he has to explain to people who Khan is.