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As junior welterweight contender Antonio Orozco heads into this pivotal stretch of his career, he'll be doing so with the same management that brought him to this point. On Saturday afternoon he re-signed with the Espinoza Boxing Club.
Welterweight prospect Ed Brown was by far the busiest prospect in all of boxing last year, having secured 13 victories in 2015 - all after the month of May. He now stands at 16-0 (14 KO's) - and the plan is to keep him on this torrid pace.
After quickly changing his mind on retiring after his disastrous loss to Tim Bradley in November, it was revealed that former world champion Brandon Rios (33-3-1, 24KOs) would be continuing his career without long-time trainer Robert Garcia in his corner. Rios has gone 2-3 in his last five appearances in the ring.
Tom Loeffler, the managing director of K2 Promotions spent a good deal of time last week in England with unified middleweight champion, Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs). It was there that groundwork was laid for a future appearance from the globe trotting Golovkin.
Egidijus Kavaliauskas (11-0, 10 KO's) is one of the hardest hitting prospects in all of boxing. He's scheduled to fight again on February 13th in Studio City and Top Rank has found a dance partner for him.
Today's final press conference to promote Saturday's rematch between light heavyweights Sergey Kovalev and Jean Pascal became very heated and contentious as Pascal ramped up his verbal venom - over what the Canadian star believes to be racist comments made in the past by the WBO/WBA/IBF champion. Pascal even handed out bananas of all things to make his point.
One final, last ditch attempt to make a fight between the two preeminent light heavyweights, WBO/WBA/IBF champion Sergey Kovalev (28-0-1, 25KOs) and WBC champion Adonis Stevenson (27-1, 22KOs), has fallen through. Main Events is now looking ahead by exploring alternative plans beyond Kovalev's upcoming fight against Jean Pascal this weekend at the Bell Centre in Montreal.
Robert Garcia is set to train Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for his next fight. They had their first fight over the summer and Chavez Jr. (49-2-1, 32KOs) once again battled weight and struggled to a ten round verdict over Marco Reyes in El Paso, Texas.
In the immediate wake of his ninth round stoppage at the hands of WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley on November 7th at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Brandon Rios announced his retirement from boxing.
As WBO/WBA/IBF light hevayweight champion Sergey Kovalev (28-0-1, 25KOs) prepares for this weekend's rematch against Jean Pascal at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Main Events is still working to secure a showdown with WBC light heavyweight titlist, Adonis Stevenson, (27-1, 22KOs) for the early summer. This fight has been brandied about since 2014 and has been bogged down in boxing politics and network alliances.