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Osenohad 'Cano' Vazquez (6-1, 2 KOs) will not fight on June 1 against Rafael "El Pollo Blanco 'Gonzalez (7-0, 6 KOs) on "A Puno Limpio" card being staged by PR Best Boxing. Vazquez contracted a throat infection and has a high fever. His trainer Dennis Pantoja pulled him from the fight.
Top Puerto Rican amateur Emmanuel Rodriguez will make his professional debut on June 1st as part of the undercard to "A Puno Limpio" in Guaynabo. Rodriguez, who turns 20 on August 8, failed to make the national team competing at the London Olympics after a forced retirement of more than a year when he suffered burns on various parts of his body in a confusing incident on November 12, 2010.
The former champion of the WBO at 105-poundsO, Ivan Calderon (35-2-1, 6 KO's), confirmed that on August 4 he will be competing for his former title against the current champion, Mexico's Moises Fuentes (14-1 and 6 KO's), at the Coliseum Mario 'Quijote' Morales in Guaynabo. On June 2 Fuentes will make an optional defense against his countryman Julio Cesar Felix (17-3, 7 KO's) in Tijuana.
Miguel 'El Loco' Robles (11-1-2 and 5 KO's), the 115-pound FECARBOX champion under the WBC, hopes to defend his crown on June 30 on a card which is being staged in Caguas against an opponent who has not been appointed.
Undefeated welterweight prospect Thomas Dulorme (14-0, 11 KO's), who returns to the stage on June 14 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, said he was not surprised to be ranked third in the world under the WBC and WBA - and added that when he becomes champion - he will represent Puerto Rico.
Two-time world champion Juan Manuel Lopez (31-2, 28KOs), who is serving a 10-month suspension for his remarks against the referee Roberto Ramirez after suffering a technical knockout loss, for the second, to WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido of Mexico, will undergo another series of medical examinations following his own admission that he suffered spells where he "blacked out" during three of his fights, including both of the bouts with Salido.
Former junior middleweight champion Sergei Dzinziruk (37-1, 23 KO's) of Ukraine is the opponent being considered for undefeated Puerto Rican puncher Jonathan Gonzalez (15-0, 13 KO's) on a card being put together for August 25th in the United States. There is also discussion about Cuban coach Pedro Luis Diaz take over Gonzalez, who is co-promoted by Universal Promotions. Gonzalez is ranked seventh in the WBA and WBO.
Peter Rivera, the vice president of PR Best Boxing, announced that Ivan Calderon, the former WBO champion at 105 pounds, will have the opportunity to regain his crown on July 28 in Puerto Rico. He takes on the current WBO champion Moises Fuentes of Mexico. As Boxingscene.com reported earlier, Fuentes will return on June 2 with an optional defense against countryman Julio Cesar Felix (17-3, 7 KO's) in Tijuana, Mexico.
The former junior lightweight champion of the WBO, Roman 'Rocky' Martinez, could return in July in the United States in a possible title eliminator, according to the boxer himself. Martinez (25-1-1, 16 KO's) lost his crown in September of 2010 against Ricky Burns and his next fight was on October 1, 2011, when he knocked Daniel Attah in six rounds to win the vacant WBO Intercontinental championship at 130 pounds.
Undefeated puncher Jonathan 'Bomba' Gonzalez (9-0, 8 KO's) will no longer fight on June 2nd in Guaynabo and could be fighting on June 8 or 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada - according to Ivan Rivera, president of the PR Best Boxing Promotions.