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Seth Mitchell is going from one homecoming to another. “It was great to be back there,” the former Michigan State linebacker and current heavyweight said of a visit to East Lansing in October to watch his alma mater defeat rival Michigan 28-14. “Now I’m ready to fight back home. It’s my turn now.”
Eloy Perez heads the list of potential opponents for newly crowned WBO junior lightweight champ Adrien Broner.
By Ryan Maquiñana - Terms for the Feb. 25 proposed matchup between WBO junior lightweight champ Adrien Broner (22-0, 18 KOs) and Eloy Perez (23-0-2, 7 KOs) have been finalized. The fight, Broner’s first title defense, will take place on the Devon Alexander-Marcos Maidana undercard in St. Louis. Originally, Puerto Rico’s Roman Martinez—the man who once possessed the belt—was offered the first shot at Broner, but when he declined, Team Perez stepped in as a willing challenger. Perez’ share of the purse is to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000. A number for Broner could not be determined as of the time of this report, but will likely be higher since he will be coming in as the champion.
WBC super middleweight champ Carl “The Cobra” Froch has been sparring with middleweight contender Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin, and the New Yorker feels the Englishman has more than a fighting chance to win his Dec. 17 date with WBA boss Andre “S.O.G.” Ward in Atlantic City.
John Scully, trainer of light heavyweight contender Chad Dawson, has called into doubt the severity of Bernard Hopkins’ left shoulder injury that was a result of his fighter’s ill-fated matchup with the Philadelphian in October.
A eight-round welterweight clash between prospects Alan Sanchez and Keandre Gibson will replace middleweight Paul Mendez’s bout as the Dec. 16 TeleFutura Solo Boxeo Tecate main event in Woodland, Calif., according to co-promoter Rafael “Paco” Damian of Paco Presents.
BoxingScene.com has confirmed that junior middleweight contenders James Kirkland and Carlos Molina will meet in an HBO-televised broadcast on Jan. 28.
Fresh off his upset victory over Luis Cruz, junior lightweight contender Juan Carlos Burgos returns against former world champ Cristobal Cruz in the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights main event on Feb. 24.
By Ryan Maquiñana - Abner Mares has plenty of family stories to tell. The setting of this one, however, is not Anaheim’s Honda Center—the site of his IBF bantamweight title defense against Joseph Agbeko on Saturday —but rather, a Ralph’s supermarket near his adopted hometown of Hawaiian Gardens, Calif.
The TeleFutura cameras have traveled to Northern California quite frequently this year, and that trend will continue when Solo Boxeo Tecate comes to the Woodland Community Senior Center on Dec. 16, according to promoter Don Chargin.