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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has turned down the bid of the famed Araneta Coliseum to stage the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr super fight, claiming that in the first place Mayweather won’t agree to fight in the Philippines.
WBA super flyweight interim champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire ( 22-1, 14 KO’s) wants Fernando ”Cochulito” Montiel (39-2-2, 29 KO’s), the reigning WBO bantamweight interim champion.
There is no doubt in Top Rank promoter Bob Arum’s mind who the winner will be in the March 13 fight for the ages between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and the man who was king before him, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) says he will be one of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s sparring partners in preparation for the Filipino southpaw’s battle against undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr, scheduled for March 13.
JR Sollano has suffered a second round knockout at the hands of Yoshihiro Kamegai at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan which appeared to be a mismatch.
Hard-hitting light flyweight contender Sonny Boy Jaro didn’t follow instructions and paid the price by getting knocked out in the very first round by WBA champion Giovanni Segura in Mexico, the same day Rodel Mayol won the WBC title with a stunning 2nd round knockout over Edgar Sosa on November 28.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has said the Philippines deserves the best fights because “any country that can produce a Manny Pacquiao deserves to get the best in boxing” even as he announced that he would stage four “Pinoy Power” fight cards in 2010.
IBF light flyweight Brian Viloria (26-2, 15 KO’s) will see his dream of fighting undefeated WBO champion Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon (33-0-1, 6 KO’s) of Puerto Rico fulfilled, according to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says he is hoping that the appeal of undefeated Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) on the findings that he had taken a banned diuretic would be heeded by the Nevada State Athletic Commission and that the young son of Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez will “hopefully get off with a censure.”
Ramie Laput has lost his WBO Intercontinental super bantamweight title via a 7th round knockout at the hands of Hungary’s Zsolt Bedak in Solden, Austria.