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BoxingScene.com has been advised that Jessie Magdaleno will be fighting again on July 16th as the headliner on 'Solo Boxeo' on UniMas on a card that will land somewhere in the Los Angeles area.
BoxingScene.com has been advised that a bout between Willie Monroe Jr. and John Thompson will take place on June 11th at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in New York.
WBO junior welterweight titlist Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) - who faces WBC belt-holder Viktor Postol on July 23rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas - was in the running to face Manny Pacquiao this past spring. Instead that assignment went to Tim Bradley (for a third time).
After almost a year out of the ring, lightweight prospect Ryan 'Blue Chip' Martin, scored a fifth-round stoppage of Rosel Martinez on April 23rd at the Forum in Inglewood, California to improve to 14-0 (9 KO's). Now Martin is looking to make up for lost time.
When WBO junior welterweight Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) faces WBC belt-holder Viktor Postol (28-0, 12KOs) on July 23rd at the MGM Grand, he'll be doing so in a scaled down Grand Garden Arena. For this pay-per-view card only the lower bowl of the venue will be opened up( approximately 7,500 seats).
On July 23rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Terence Crawford makes his debut as pay-per-view headliner, as he tries to unify his WBO 140-pound title against WBC champion Viktor Postol. It's an event where Bob Arum will have tempered expectations.
A welterweight unification bout between IBF titlist Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) and WBO belt-holder Jesse Vargas (27-1, 10KOs) is being discussed for the late summer. And talks are now coming to the final stages, it seems.
So with eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao now a Senator in the Philippines, what does that mean for his future in the ring?
As promised, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya made a call to K2 Promotions managing director, Tom Loeffler, to discuss a possible showdown between WBC middleweight titlist Saul Alvarez and unified belt-holder Gennady Golovkin for later this year.
The last we saw of Lucas Matthysse he was on the losing end of a tenth round TKO at the hands of Viktor Postol for the vacant WBC 140-pound title last October in Carson.