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Unbeaten junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan has continued his verbal attack on WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Martinez. A few weeks ago, the two fighters waged a verbal war on BoxingScene.com
If former welterweight champion Kermit Cintron returns on October 24 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, he will probably face Juliano Ramos (15-2, 12KOs). Ramos returns from a six round TKO loss to Mike Jones from August.
BoxingScene.com was advised that undefeated junior middleweight Harry Joe Yorgey has hooked up with trainer Jack Loew in Youngstown, Ohio. Yorgey is training for the November 7 bout with Alfredo Angulo. Loew is the trainer of WBO/WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik. HBO will televise the fight as the co-feature to Chad Dawson vs. Glen Johnson.
On September 26 at the Coushatta Casino in Kinder, La., heavyweight prospect George Foreman III, also known as "Monk" Foreman, will have his third pro fight. Foreman made his pro debut in June, stopping Clyde Weaver in one and then grabbed a two-round stoppage over George Burrage in July. Before he was able to go pro, he had to convince his dad, former two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman, that he was serious about making it in the sport.
After Juan Diaz's twelve round unanimous decision win over Paulie Malignaggi on Saturday night at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, BoxingScene.com was advised that Diaz's team, namely trainer/manager Willie Savannah, would love to see Diaz in the ring with Ricky Hatton.
Former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor is taking no shortcuts with the training for with his upcoming fight with Arthur Abraham on October 10 in Germany. Taylor meets Abraham in the first round of Showtime's super middleweight tournament.
Promoter Oscar De La Hoya, president of Golden Boy Promotions, kept it real about the wide scores in the Paulie Malignaggi vs Juan Diaz and Daniel Jacobs vs Ishe Smith bouts. Both fights were close. The Golden Boy fighters, Jacobs and Diaz, won unanimous decisions on Saturday at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. In both of the fights there were two absurd score cards. One judge had it 118-110 for Diaz, while another had it 100-89 for Jacobs in the fight with Smith.
Sources have informed BoxingScene.com that recent heavyweight turned cruiserweight Adam "Swamp Donkey" Richards will be facing veteran spoiler Harvey Jolly on the already stacked Juan Diaz-Paulie Malignaggi card on August 22 in Houston, Texas.
As reported on Sunday, due to an unspecified illness, the scheduled WBA title bout between Indonesian Chris John and Houston, Texas’s Rocky Juarez has been cancelled with no apparent makeup date anticipated.
BoxingScene.com was informed that Rocky Juarez (28-4, 20KOs) is interested in a showdown with WBO super featherweight champ Nicky Cook (29-1, 16KOs), who dethroned Alex Arthur last Saturday for the title.