
Santa Cruz: I Want To Unify With Lomachenko, Try To Beat Him!
Coming off his fifth round stoppage of Kiko Martinez this past weekend, WBA featherweight titlist Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18KOs) is looking to go big game hunting.

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Coming off his fifth round stoppage of Kiko Martinez this past weekend, WBA featherweight titlist Leo Santa Cruz (32-0-1, 18KOs) is looking to go big game hunting.

It's been a long and winding road but Amir Khan (31-3, 19KOs) finally has his big fight, as he faces WBC middleweight belt-holder Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs) on May 7th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Khan's career for the past two years was bogged down as he unsuccessfully chased fights against Floyd Mayweather and then Manny Pacquiao.

A welterweight slugfest between Jesus Soto-Karass (28-10-3, 18KOs) and Yoshihiro Kamegai (26-3-1, 23KOs) is being discussed for April 15th at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles.

The never ending saga between welterweights Keith Thurman and Shawn Porter will drag on a bit longer. The long-awaited match-up - which was supposed to take place on March 12th at the Mohegan Sun - was scrapped after Thurman suffered injuries in an auto accident. It's not clear just when this fight will be re-scheduled.

On Saturday night from the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Julian Williams faces Marcello Matano (16-1, 5KOs) on Showtime in what is an IBF elimination bout at junior middleweight. It's not the bout Williams wanted, but it's the one he has to take to get to where he wants to be.

Coming off his successful debut in New York this past weekend, where Terence Crawford stopped Hank Lundy in five rounds, promoter Bob Arum now has designs of taking him out west for his next outing. One of the options Arum is considering is the former WBO champion at 140-pounds, Ruslan Provodnikov (25-4, 18KOs).

There are still some questions to be answered in regards to the fight that has been verbally agreed to between Vasyl Lomachenko and Nicholas Walters paramount among them is just weight will this fight be contested at?

Promoter Bob Arum has confirmed to Boxingscene.com that a clash between WBO featherweight titlist, Vasyl Lomachenko and former WBA featherweight belt-holder, Nicholas Walters has been agreed upon by both parties. "The details will come next week but the date we're looking at is April 30th," Arum said on Friday morning.

The match-up between WBC middleweight titlist, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs) and Amir Khan (31-3, 19KOs) is scheduled for May 7th at the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, which will be staged by Golden Boy Promotions. And it may not be the only card they put on that weekend.

The last we saw of Shawn Porter was on the night of June 20th when he out-fought Adrien Broner over twelve rounds at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Since that point he's been idle as he's been forced to wait for a fight against Keith Thurman to materialize.