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Former three division champion Felix "Tito" Trinidad is on the verge of a final retirement. Trinidad has retired twice in the past. This time he plans to retire for good. He returned last January and lost a twelve round decision to Roy Jones Jr. There was minor talk last of fights with Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor but neither of those came through.
WBA super featherweight champion Jorge Linares (27-0, 18KOs) is ready for a major fight in his weight class of 130-pounds. He plans to fight again in October in Japan, and then he would like to unify with WBC champion Humberto Soto (48-7-2, 31KO) of Mexico.
According to members of the WBC, once six months of Antonio Margarito's punishment has passed, he will re-enter their welterweight rankings. Back in February, Margarito and trainer Javier Capetillo had their licenses revoked by the California State Athletic Commission.
International promoter Akihiko Honda, head of Teiken Promotions, would like to put together a super-fight on Japanese soil in the month of December.
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch has been speaking with his close friend David Haye, and advised his fellow Brit to continue his pursuit of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Froch appears confident that Haye will not only beat Klitschko, but he will blow the huge Ukranian champion away with ease. Froch views Wladimir as a boring fighter who is scared of his own shadow.
Ricky Hatton's attorney Gareth Williams, who is also the CEO for Hatton Promotions, says the rumors of Ricky getting ready for a comeback bout in Manchester, or any location, are false. Stories were running wild in the UK that Hatton was getting ready for a comeback bout and Steve Forbes was mentioned several times as a possible opponent.
Francisco "Paco" Valcárcel, president of the WBO, is attempting to get the proposed bout, between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, approved as a welterweight title fight. Paco has asked the WBO's board to place Pacquiao in the number one position for the bout with Cotto, the current WBO champion, and sanction it as a title fight - if the two sides finalize the November 14 showdown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Freddie Roach, trainer of Manny Pacquiao, sees WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto as a very tough fight for Manny. The fight is being proposed for November 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Roach says Cotto is a very hard opponent to beat because of his power, youth and size. He says Pacquiao has to fight without making any mistakes.
Top Rank's Bob Arum has a master plan to slowly build a mega-bout between two of his young stars. Over the next year, Arum plans to build in the direction of a featherweight showdown between undefeated fighters Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa. Lopez is the WBO super bantamweight champion and by the end of the year he plans to rise to the featherweight division, where Gamboa is the WBA's "regular" champion.
This past Saturday, Golden Boy Promotions was promoting a HBO televised event at Staples Center in California with Victor Ortiz-Marcos Maidana on top. Also on the same night, their promotional rival, Top Rank, was promoting the Latin Fury 9 pay-per-view in Atlantic City. When the news hit Atlantic City, that Ortiz had been stopped by Maidana in six rounds, there was a lot of talk among media members in Atlantic City, regarding the business relationship between Golden Boy and HBO - and the consistent hits to Golden Boy‘s stable of fighters.