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Golden Boy officials have confirmed with BoxingScene.com that junior middleweight Alfredo “El Perro” Angulo will face Jorge Silva on the Dec. 15 Amir Khan-Carlos Molina card at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Showtime will televise both bouts.
Saturday’s TeleFutura Solo Boxeo Tecate card in Vacaville, Calif., features several fighters from the Northern California region. BoxingScene.com spoke to some of the principals before Friday’s 5 p.m. public weigh-in at the Courtyard by Marriott in nearby Fairfield.
Super middleweight Andrew Hernandez’s Nov. 10 technical knockout win over Rudy Puga Jr. is in danger of being changed to a no-contest after the winner’s prefight drug test revealed excessive levels of testosterone. Hernandez, from Phoenix, Ariz., scored a second-round stoppage of Puga on Top Rank’s Vanes Martirosyan-Erislandy Lara undercard at the Las Vegas Wynn Resort. However, it was later discovered that Hernandez’s testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio surpassed the 6-to-1 cutoff allowed in Nevada.
Super middleweight world champion Andre Ward will defend his title against Kelly Pavlik on Jan. 26 at the University of Southern California’s Galen Center in Los Angeles, according to Ward’s promoter, Dan Goossen. “It’s a done deal,” Goossen told BoxingScene.com/CSNBayArea.com. “I think this is the next step of Andre’s growth as a superstar to perform live in front of the Los Angeles audience. Los Angeles has been a hotbed of boxing for many, many years, and this is a new arena and a new forum for Andre to be able to show his greatness.”
The Golden Boy brass was present for Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero’s thrilling triumph in Ontario, Calif., over Andre Berto Saturday night, and commented on the winner’s outing. “[It was a] beautiful performance,” the promotional company's president Oscar De La Hoya told BoxingScene.com/CSNBayArea.com. “He did a great job. He showed the world he belongs at 147 [pounds], and let’s go after the best.”
Ryan Maquinana catches the official weigh-in to HBO's televised doubleheader on Saturday night. Watch welterweight Robert Guerrero and Andre Berto make weight, plus junior middleweights Keith Thurman and Carlos Quintana hit the scale.
A source close to the situation has advised BoxingScene.com that Delvin Rodriguez (26-6-3, 14KOs) has decided to take a pass on facing junior middleweight contender Alfredo "Perro" Angulo (21-2, 18KOs) on December 15th at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The Showtime televised card is headlined by Amir Khan vs. Carlos Molina.
Middleweight contender Fernando Guerrero would welcome a world title shot against super slugger Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan if afforded the opportunity. BoxingScene.com’s Rick Reeno reported Thursday morning that Golovkin (24-0, 21 KOs) will defend his 160-pound belt on Jan. 19 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, with Gabriel Rosado and Guerrero the leading candidates to land the fight. “I saw his fight on HBO,” Guerrero said of Golovkin’s five-round destruction of Grzegorz Proksa in September. “I guess he can punch. He can punch, but don’t forget, I’m a puncher, too, and I can box. I’d test that when I most likely get in the ring with him if I get the fight. Other than that I didn’t see anything special.
A source close to the situation has advised BoxingScene.com that a deal is close for junior middleweight contender Alfredo "Perro" Angulo (21-2, 18KOs) to face Delvin Rodriguez (26-6-3, 14KOs) on December 15th at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The Showtime televised card is headlined by Amir Khan vs. Carlos Molina.
BoxingScene.com has been advised that junior featherweight prospects Manuel “Tino” Avila and Ricky Lopez will meet at the Georgie Duke Center in Vacaville, Calif., on Dec. 1 in a bout that will air on TeleFutura. Rising welterweight Alan Sanchez will appear against an opponent to be determined in the other televised fight. Both bouts will be eight-rounders. The 20-year-old Avila (10-0, 3 KOs), a native of Fairfield, Calif., who trains at the Georgie Duke Center and fought out of the Vacaville PAL as an amateur, will be fighting for the fifth time in 2012 and is coming off a unanimous decision win in his first eight-rounder against John Alberto Molina.