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At the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Brian Viloria (25-2, 15 KOs) knocked out Ulises Solis (28-2-2, 20 KOs) in the eleventh round to capture the IBF junior flyweight title.
At the North-West University Sports Complex in South Africa, Malcolm Klassen (24-4-2, 15 KOs) regained the IBF super featherweight title by stopping Cassius Baloyi (36-4-1, 20KOs) in the seventh round.
Retired former champion Joe Clazaghe is looking ahead to his future in the sport. He, along with his father Enzo Calzaghe, are laying down the bricks for their promotional company, Calzaghe promotions. According to Calzaghe, WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler is the best fighter at the weight and he would love nothing more than to promote Kessler.
WBA/WBC/IBF super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan plans to pound IBF Bantamweight champion Joseph Agbeko when the two clash at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida. Like he did at super flyweight, Darchinyan wants to unify all of the major titles at bantamweight. After he unifies, he plans to move to super bantamweight.
Manny Pacquiao is not taking it easy. Currently Manny is busting up sparring partners at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California. Last December he picked up the biggest win of his career, a one-sided eight round stoppage of Oscar De La Hoya. Now he is regarded as the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the sport, and with De La Hoya announcing his retirement, he might be the biggest moneymaker in the sport.
According to the Canadian Press, former two division champion Arturo Gatto, 37, was bailed out from jail on Friday in Montreal. Gatti had been there for a few days over missing a court date. It appears that Gatti was arrested last month and charged with assaulting his then girlfriend. There was a court date on April, and both Gatti and his attorney no-showed the appearance. Gatti moved back to Montreal after he retired from boxing in 2007.
At Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino at Primm, Nevada, 2004 Olympic Games gold medalist, Yuriorkis Gamboa (15-0, 13 KOs) stopped Jose “Cheo’’ Rojas (25-7-1, 17 KOs, 1 No Decision) in the tenth round to capture the WBA interim super featherweight title.
At the Indoor Sports Centre in Leigh, Lancashire, Jason Booth (32-5, 13KOs) won the vacant BBBofC British super bantamweight title after Mark Moran (11-1, 3KOs) was unable to continue due to a bad cut. Booth was doing well in the first half of the fight. The two clashed heads in the sixth round, opening a bad cut on Moran, who struggled to get off with his punches in the fight.
WBO interim bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel is hoping that Vic Darchinyan beats Joseph Agbeko on July 11. Montiel wants Darchinyan to capture Agbeko's IBF title, and then the two of them could get together and unify their belts at the end of the year. Darchinyan, the current IBF/WBA/WBC super flyweight champion, moves up a division to meet the unbeaten Agbeko in a battle of punchers.
According to Top Rank's Bob Arum, the next likely opponent for Manny Pacquiao will be WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. It's not the first time that Arum mentioned the possibility of a fight with Pacquiao and Cotto. Since January the subject came up a number of times. Arum said the overall decision will come down to the fighters. If both boxers want to make the fight, Arum will make the fight. If the fight does take shape, it probably won't happen until November.