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Vic Darchinyan (31-1-1, 25 KOs) and Mexico's Jorge Arce (51-4-1, 39 KOs) were ripped and ready for Saturday's fight at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Darchinyan puts up his IBF/WBC/WBA super flyweight titles against the experience of Arce, who looks to caputure another divisional title. Showtime will televise the event.
After the unexpected withdrawal by former two division champion Ricardo Mayorga, promoter Gary Shaw has struck a deal for junior middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo (14-0, 11KOs) to face Danny Perez (34-5, 17KOs) on the HBO televised tripleheader from the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.
Undisputed super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan beating the drums for a future fight with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao. He wants to continue moving up in weight until he reaches a fight with Pacquiao, who is currently making a run at junior welterweight.
Miguel Cotto is training hard in the hot lights of his camp in Puerto Rico, preparing for his February 21 ring return against Michael Jennings. The fight will top a card at New York's Madison Square Garden, and Top Rank pay-per-view will televise the split-feed event that has Kelly Pavlik defending his middleweight titles against Marco Antonio Rubio in Ohio. Cotto-Jennings will have the vacant WBO welterweight title on the line.
If John Murray is unable to land a fight with countryman Amir Khan, maybe he can fight the man who sparked Khan in 52-seconds last September - Colombian puncher Breidis Prescott.
Former champion and UK legend, Nigel Benn, has a lot of respect for his countryman Joe Calzaghe. After weeks of speculation, the Welsh fighter announced his retirement on Thursday. Benn says that Calzaghe always stepped up his game against the best opponents like Jeff Lacy, Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. He even goes as far as admitting that Calzaghe would have likely beaten him if the two of them were around in the same era.
The news of Joe Calzaghe's retirement has sent shockwaves to a lot of UK fighters. Most of the fighters and media had expected him to at least have one or two more fights before he made a decision to hang up the gloves.
Undefeated Joe Calzaghe (46-0) has announced his retirement from boxing. Coming off a banner year in 2008, where he moved up to light heavyweight to win decisions over Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr., Calzaghe saw no reason to go any further.
According to David Haye, a deal to fight WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko could be finalized in the next ten days. Haye says the split and the money has been agreed upon, the fight contracts are in the hands of the lawyers who are working on some of the final details. The fight is said to be taking place on June 20 in the UK
According to manager/trainer Nacho Beristain, former champion Rafael Marquez (37-5, 33KOs) is possibly going to return on April 4 in Chihuahua, Mexico against Colombian puncher Reynaldo Lopez (30-6, 21KOs). Marquez has been inactive since the third battle with Israel Vazquez from last March. Marquez's last three fights have been against Vazquez and technically he is winless since March of 07, when he stopped Vazquez after seven rounds of their first brutal fight.