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Highly touted Japanese welterweight prospect Yoshihiro Kamegai (21-0, 18 KOs) will make his American TV debut on Fox Sports against Mexican Cosme Rivera (35-14-3, 24 KOs) on Oct. 6 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. “Kamegai can really fight,” said Paco Damian, who is co-promoting the show with Don Chargin, Golden Boy, and Jorge Marron. “The fans here in Sacramento are going to love him.”
The prevailing joke in American boxing circles is that if you’re up against a house fighter in Germany, you have to knock him out to get a draw. Perhaps word hasn’t reached Australia, because Daniel “The Real Deal” Geale has earned his moniker by traveling to the European nation twice and coming away with a pair of middleweight world titles via split decision. “There’s no secret to it,” Geale (28-1, 15 KOs) told BoxingScene.com. “We just worked very hard believed in ourselves the whole way. I think one thing that worked in our favor is that both guys didn’t expect us to go there and take away their title from Germany, and we were able to surprise them.”
Middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin continues to impress the boxing world one ruthless demolition at a time. According to Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, who handles the rising star, the road ahead for the native of Kazakhstan couldn’t be brighter after a fifth-round knockout of top 10 contender Gregorsz Proksa three weeks ago in front of the HBO cameras. “It was a great debut for him over here on the United States on HBO,” Loeffler told BoxingScene.com. “He would really love to fight any middleweight or junior middleweight out there.”
While countryman Daniel Geale has been grabbing all the Australian national headlines as of late, unbeaten featherweight Joel Brunker will hope to make his presence known in his Oct. 27 stateside debut at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, N.Y.
Junior featherweight Roman Morales faces his toughest challenge yet in fellow unbeaten prospect Jonathan Arrellano for a vacant 122-pound regional title this Friday at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, Calif. “We’re both undefeated, so I’ve been training my hardest to give the fans my best performance yet,” Morales told BoxingScene.com. Morales (12-0, 6 KOs), who is fighting in his first 10-rounder, has impressed in his last two outings, a dominant decision over Alexis Santiago and a rare shutout over notoriously tough Jonathan Alcantara in August.
Gary Shaw has vowed not to let Adrien Broner get away with coming in overweight a second time in two bouts in the event the flamboyant fighter faces lightweight titleholder Antonio DeMarco on Nov. 17. “If we make the fight, and [Broner] doesn’t come in on weight, we don’t fight,” said Shaw, who promotes DeMarco. “Money doesn’t motivate us that way.” Two months ago, Broner was stripped of his belt when he tipped the scales well over the 130-pound limit ahead of what was to be his last junior lightweight title defense against Vicente Escobedo.
Unified junior featherweight champion Nonito Donaire, who has submitted to year-round random drug testing administered by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association, received confirmation from VADA Tuesday stating that all of his results so far have come up negative.
Just ask unified junior featherweight titlist Nonito Donaire, who has secured a fight at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., with the recognized top 122-pounder in the division, Toshiaki Nishioka—but is remarkably still being panned by some who feel he should be pursuing matchups with fellow beltholders Guillermo Rigondeaux and Abner Mares. “Critics will always be critics. That’s why they’re called critics,” Donaire told CSN Bay Area in a recent video interview. “With me, everyone has their own opinion. I have my own opinion, and the guy that I’ve been looking for in this division is Nishioka from the beginning, unless Rigondeaux or Mares prove themselves worthy of it. If that’s the case, I’m always willing to fight them.”
Sergio Martinez received medical attention for a variety of injuries Saturday night shortly after his middleweight title victory over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., according to his adviser Sampson Lewkowicz. The reigning champion incurred a broken left hand, eight stitches over his left eye, two staples in his head, and torn ligaments in his right knee that will likely require surgery.
Top Rank CEO Bob Arum informed BoxingScene.com Friday afternoon that the proposed Dec. 15 date for welterweight titlist Tim Bradley will no longer take place at New York City’s Madison Square Garden Theater. “We tried to make the fight there initially, but it turns out it’s already booked for another show, so we’re looking at other places now,” said Arum, who did not specify any backup venues as of yet.