
Joan Guzman is Seeking Redemption in Santo Domingo
Rugged Colombian puncher Florencio "Chombo" Castellano loves the fact that unbeaten Dominican Joan Guzman is obsessed with their Thursday night weigh-in in Santo Domingo.

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Rugged Colombian puncher Florencio "Chombo" Castellano loves the fact that unbeaten Dominican Joan Guzman is obsessed with their Thursday night weigh-in in Santo Domingo.

While the general public is stimulated by Floyd Mayweather Junior's apparent overture to fight Manny Pacquiao on May 5, boxing insiders are not exactly booking flights to Las Vegas or trying to get tickets.

Harold Lederman, the always enthusiastic and affable "Unofficial Judge" for HBO boxing, just radiates his love for all fighters and every aspect of the sport.

Let's borrow a medical term to describe Sergio Martinez promoter Lou DiBella's view on landing Manny Pacquiao as a 2012 big fight opponent.

HOLLYWOOD--Manny Pacquiao, the WBO's welterweight champion, has laid down the gauntlet and it appears that Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez, the WBC's Diamond champion at middleweight, is ready to pick it up.

HOLLYWOOD - He didn't used to be, but under the tutelage of Coach Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao has become quite adept at ducking and slipping punches.

HOLLYWOOD--Bob Arum, who has done all the political calculations, said that his proudest professional moment will come if and when his boxing cash cow, Manny Pacquiao, becomes president of the Phillipines.

HOLLYWOOD--Bob Arum, sneaking up on his 80th birthday come Dec. 8, was standing on the stairway of Coach Freddie Roach's Wild Card Gym, soaking up some sunshine and chatting with a pair of wizened fight scribes Wednesday afternoon.

Strength and conditioning guru Victor Conte, the one-time owne of the infamous BALCO Lab, who now shows fighters how to maximize their performance on a strictly legal basis, told me the natural progression for "Filipino Flash" Nonito Donaire Jr. is to inch up from bantamweight to the 122 pound weight class.

According to Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, he has no intention of steering Mexican star Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. into a near future showdown against middleweight king Sergio Martinez. WBC President Don Jose Sulaiman has Chavez, the WBC's middleweight champion, to make a mandatory defense against Martinez by March of 2012.