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Lightweight Jose Pedraza (1-0, 1KOs), who had an auspicious professional debut on Friday in Ponce, on the card called 'Night of Champions,' greatly impressed his promoters Lou DiBella, Gary Shaw and Javier Bustillo. He will return on March 29 in New York, and it will mark his first international boxing match with pay.
Ponce, Puerto Rico - Former WBO welterweight champion, Carlos "El Indio" Quintana (28-3, 22KOs), successfully returned to the ring to get an impressive win in the headline bout of the the card called 'Night of Champions." Quintana stopped Yorgi Estrella at 38-seconds into the ninth round when referee Luis Pabon had seen enough and stopped the punishment.
The Boxing Commission of Puerto Rico will hold their annual awards on March 1 at Nilmario Santini, located at the headquarters of the Department of Recreation and Sport in Santurce, and the event will be dedicated to the former three division world champion and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad.
Although he will reappear on Friday in the junior middleweight division, Carlos 'El Indio' Quintana, a former WBO champion at 147 pounds, did not rule out a move up to middleweight noting that where he feels more comfortable because he doesn't have to drop a large amount of weight.
Cesar "Junito" Seda will be glued to the television on Saturday night watching the Argentine WBO champion at 115-pounds, Omar Narvaez, defend his title against Victor Zabaleta at the Polideportivo Municipal de Monte Hermoso in Buenos Aires. Seda is scheduled to facethe winner in the coming months.
Undefeated Francisco "The Wizard" Palacios continues to train at full steam for his April 2 brawl in Poland against the tough cruiserweight champion of the WBC, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, which is going to be held in the city of Bydgoszcz.
When Mexican featherweight contender Orlando Salido arrived to a press conference in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, he was shocked to see a chubby Juan Manuel Lopez, who appears to have put on a substantial amount of weight. Salido estimates that Juanma weighs at least 150-pounds.
Felix 'Tutico' Zabala, promoter of undefeated WBO super bantamweight champion, Wilfredo "Papito" Vazquez Jr. (20-0, 17KOs), said that after his boxer faces Mexican star Jorge 'Travieso' Arce on May 7, the next opponent has to be one of the first 15 rated boxers under the WBO, but he does not think that it will be Jayson 'La Maravilla' Velez (15-0, 12KOs). Velez is slowly moving up in the rankings and wants to get his shot in the near future.
Erickson Martell, with a record of 4-2-1 and three kncokouts, will be the opponent of McWilliams Arroyo on April 16 at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon. Arroyo, a flyweight prospect, is 6-1, with 5 knockouts. The fight is going to happen on the undercard to Juan Manuel Lopez's defense of the WBO featherweight title against former champion Orlando Salido of Mexico. Showtime will televise the main event.
On Saturday night, Jose "Chelo" González extended his steak to 14 consecutive victories with a technical knockout in the fifth round over Derrick Campos, in the main event of the card 'Future Champions 2' which was held in Bayamon. Gonzalez, who improved his record to 14-0 with 10 knockouts, will return on April 16 on the undercard of Juan Manuel Lopez's defense of the WBO featherweight title against Orlando Salido in Bayamon.