
Robert Garcia Talks Rios vs Molina, Kelly Pavlik at 160?
Several media outlets have named Robert Garcia their Trainer of the Year, and with good cause.

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Several media outlets have named Robert Garcia their Trainer of the Year, and with good cause.

Nonito Donaire’s trainer, Robert Garcia, spoke to BoxingScene.com regarding his fighter’s first camp as a junior featherweight, as well as a possible matchup with newly crowned WBA 122-pound champ Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba.

Goossen Tutor CEO Dan Goossen spoke to BoxingScene.com recently about potential opponents for newly crowned Super Six champion and 2011 Fighter of the Year Andre Ward after his landmark victory over Carl Froch last month.

Welterweight Artemio “King” Reyes Jr. returns to the ring for the first time since his upset of 2008 Olympian Javier Molina when he faces Mexico’s Victor Correo on Feb. 24 at the Double Tree Hotel in Ontario, Calif.

When middleweight prospect Brandon Gonzales tore his hamstring and was forced to pull out of his Jan. 20 ShoBox-televised clash with fellow unbeaten Caleb Truax, it opened the door for rising junior lightweight Joel Diaz Jr. to take the slot.

In a conversation with BoxingScene.com Thursday morning, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum confirmed that a chat between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather occurred over the telephone last night.

In an interview last night with Dyan Castillejo of Filipino TV network ABS-CBN, Manny Pacquiao revealed that he spoke to Floyd Mayweather on the telephone regarding their proposed superfight.

Former world title challenger Vicente “Chente” Escobedo will meet “Lightning” Lonnie Smith in a junior lightweight ten-rounder in Woodland, Calif., that will serve as the headliner of the March 3 edition of Solo Boxeo Tecate.

After a report surfaced that had unbeaten Filipino lightweight Mercito Gesta (24-0-1, 12 KOs) facing Jose “Chelo” Gonzalez (18-0, 13 KOs) on the Mar. 10 undercard of WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido’s rematch with Juan Manuel Lopez in Puerto Rico, Gesta’s manager dispelled the rumor in speaking to BoxingScene.com Friday afternoon.

With Floyd Mayweather’s 90-day jail sentence postponed until June 1, he will go ahead with his planned May 5 fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.