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Angel "Memo" Hernandez has made waves over the past few weeks amid allegations from Manny Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach that he has juiced Juan Manuel Marquez. Hernandez, previously known as Heredia, was indicted in the famed BALCO scandal and was adept at creating performance enhancing cocktails that flew under the radar. Hernandez is miffed at the allegations from Roach and has threatened to sue.
Sources close to Gabriel Rosado have informed BoxingScene.com that Rosado will challenge Gennady Golovkin for his WBA middleweight title on Jan. 19. The fight will be televised by HBO and will take place in New York. The fight is agreed to in principle, with all monetary terms settled , but contracts have yet to be signed. Rosado will move up from 154 pounds to 160 for the fight. The other finalist for the bout was Fernando Guerrero, who lost out to Rosasdo for the big title opportunity.
According to sources, Robert Guerrero caused Andre Berto to urinate blood after their fight on Saturday, which Guerrero won via unanimous decision on HBO. Guerrero dropped Berto twice -- once in the first and once in the second -- and won by scores of 116-110 on all three cards. It was a rough fight with Guerrero pressing the action and pushing Berto to the ropes. Guerrero concentrated on Berto's midsection, landing 74 body shots in the fight according to CompuBox.
Austin Trout is used to fighting in hostile enemy territory. He's fought in Mexico several times against Mexican fighters. In his two title fights in Mexico, he defeated the hometown fighter by a wide unanimous decision. The undefeated junior middleweight isn't shy when it comes to fighting on the road, so when he got the opportunity to defend against Miguel Cotto at the Garden in New York City, Trout didn't hesitate. Cotto routinely draws sell-out crowds at MSG and has become a fan favorite there. Though Cotto is from Puerto Rico, he might as well call the Garden home. After-all, it's the home of most of the best nights of Cotto's career.
Notre Dame Graduate Mike Lee is a fresh face in the sport, but with one rare exception compared to other boxers, let alone top prospects -- he's on a national TV ad.
NEW YORK -- Welterweight contender Mike Jones fought two of his past three fights against tough Mexican Jesus Soto-Karass. Soto-Karass gave Jones all he could handle in their first bout, but Jones took care of him with ease in the rematch earlier this year on HBO.
According to Top Rank's Carl Moretti, former champion Joshua Clottey will make his return to the ring against Calvin Green on November 19 in Houston, Tex. on the off-TV undercard of the HBO fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Peter Manfredo at Reliant Arena.
BoxingScene.com has been advised by manager Cameron Dunkin that former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (37-2, 32KOs) will be working with sports and nutrition guru Victor Conte, as he works his way back after a long layoff.
NEW YORK -- In the opener to the untelevised portion of the Nonito Donaire-Omar Narvaez HBO card from the Theater at Madison Square Garden, Cletus Sedin (4-0, 2 KOs) defeated Jose Segura Torres (2-3-2, 1 KO) via second round TKO in a welterweight contest. The 25-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y. native dominated the opening round, before ending matters with a vicious left hook in the second. Torres beat the count, but the referee waved off the contest at 2:52.
By Mike Coppinger - BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Nonito Donaire spun around the small ring at the venerable Gleason’s Gym in the high-scale end of Brooklyn, sporting a black shirt embroidered with the slogan “I heart boxing for bobbies “, a homage to Breast Cancer Awareness month. A gregarious character, he smiled and preened for onlookers as he worked the pads with Morris East. Every so often, Donaire (26-1, 18 KOs) would imitate popular boxers – Ricardo Mayorga, Winky Wright and Floyd Mayweather – to name a few. “The Filipino Flash” appeared to be at such peace, you’d be surprised to find out he was headlining at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. The 28-year-old Donaire, considered the number four pound-for-pound fighter by most pundits, will be making just his second appearance on HBO Saturday, as he takes on undefeated Argentine Omar Navarez (35-0-2, 19 KOs), the No. 1 fighter in the world just three pound south at 115.