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At the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Zab Judah (38-6, 26KOs) stopped Ubaldo Hernandez (22-20-2, 10KOs) in two rounds. It was Judah's first fight since last November's decision win over Ernest Johnson. Hernandez was a late replacement and had not fought in over two years.
The feud between promotional competitors Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions will always be alive and well. In a recent interview with Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports, Top Rank's owner Bob Arum blasted Oscar De La Hoya, president of Golden Boy Promotions. Arum took offense to De La Hoya's recent blog that ran on the Ring Magazine's online website. De La Hoya penned an opinion blog about next Saturday's mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto. Both fighters are under the Top Rank banner.
Heavyweight contender David Haye, after he weighed in at 218-pounds, vowed to back up his prediction of a sensational knockout of WBA champion Nikolai Valuev on Saturday night in Germany. The 7'2 giant weighed 315-pounds. Nobody has been able to hurt or drop Valuev. Haye, a former cruiserweight champion, believes he can put the giant to sleep.
WBA junior middleweight champion Daniel Santos is looking for a new beginning when he defends his title against undefeated Yuri Foreman on the Pacquiao vs. Cotto pay-per-view undercard on November 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Santos, currently training in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, plans to depart for Las Vegas on Tuesday.
No postponements for this one. According to Sky Sports, David Haye officially took to the scales at the Mercado Shopping Centre in Nuremberg and weighed in at a shredded 230-pounds of cut muscle for his heavyweight title bout on Saturday night in Germany. WBA champion Nikolai Valuev was nearly 100-pounds larger, coming in at 315-pounds.
Oscar De La Hoya has changed his mind and switched positions on his prediction for next week's super fight between WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao. At first De La Hoya was picking Pacquiao to win but now he writes in his Ring Online blog that Cotto should win the fight.
With a fourth clash with Rafael Marquez in the toilet, Israel Vazquez has turned his attention to WBC featherweight champion Elio Rojas. As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Marquez is disputing his promotional contract with Gary Shaw, and both fighters are looking for more money than either network is willing to pay.
Undefeated junior welterweight puncher Lucas Martin Matthysse (24-0, 22KOs) will return on the undercard of Jorge Rodrigo Barrios vs. Michael Lozada at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Matthysse will take on Florencio "Chombo" Castellano (16-3, 13KOs) of Colombia. HBO Plus in Latin America will carry the card.
WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto and his January 30th opponent, Shane Mosley, have continued to trade words through their twitter accounts over the last couple of days. Mosley lashed out out with a promise to ruis Berto. Berto returned home from the WBC convention in Korea and returend some fire with some hard words of his own.
WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto is not going to let Manny Pacquiao make history without a serious fight. Cotto plans to derail any chance of Pacquiao trying to make boxing history by winning a seventh world title in his seventh weight division. Cotto defends against Pacquiao on November 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.