
Tyson Marquez-Fernando Lumacad Eliminator on 7/14?
Fernando Lumacad of the Philippines is scheduled to fight WBA flyweight champion Hernan “Tyson” Marquez in a super flyweight eliminator in Mexico on July 14.

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Fernando Lumacad of the Philippines is scheduled to fight WBA flyweight champion Hernan “Tyson” Marquez in a super flyweight eliminator in Mexico on July 14.

Denver Cuello who smashed Mexico’s Ganigan Lopez to win a final eliminator for the WBC light flyweight title scoring a 2nd round TKO in Mexico last May 19 is ready to go after WBC/WBA champion Kazuto Ioka of Japan who won his unification battle with WBA champion Akira Yaegeshi by a unanimous decision in Osaka, Wednesday night.

China which is an emerging power in amateur boxing has begun to flex its muscles in pro boxing with the first WBC light flyweight Silver title won by diminutive Xiong Zhao Zhong who scored a twelve round unanimous decision to win the title in a clash with Mexico’s Osvaldo “Chucky” Razon in Kunming, China.

Former world champion and the trainer of reigning WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire has taken the position that the controversy generated by the widely condemned split decision in the Manny Pacquiao- Timothy Bradley WBO welterweight title fight last June 9 “is good for everybody.”

World Boxing Organization super bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” sparred twelve rounds with two tall sparring partners and looked good.

The focus is now quickly shifting to a fouth showdown between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez for November 10th. Despite Timothy Bradley winning a controversial twelve round split decision over Pacquiao last Saturday in Las Vegas, the rematch doesn't appear to be in Top Rank's plans until 2013.

One of the sidelights of HBO's television coverage of the WBC middleweight title fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr and Andy Lee was a poll conducted where fight fans voted on who they thought won the WBO welterweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao and undefeated Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley, which took place last Saturday in Las Vegas.

Thailand’s most prominent boxing promotional outfit One Songchai Promotions is dead set on staging the battle for the vacant WBO bantamweight title between No. 1 ranked AJ “Bazooka” Banal and hometown fighter and No. 2 ranked Pungluangf Sor Singyu in Thailand.

“Fighter of the Decade” Manny Pacquiao returns home on Saturday with his adviser Michael Koncz for a few days before returning to Los Angeles. In a brief interview with BoxingScene.com/Manila Standard, Koncz said “we are coming back tonight, Manny and I.”

STRENGTH and conditioning guru Alex Ariza yesterday claimed that Manny Pacquiao’s planned rematch with Timothy Bradley will not take place in November. Instead, it will be Pacquiao against Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in a fourth encounter following the hugely controversial majority decision win by the Filipino ring icon in their third fight.