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WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (24-0, 19 KOs) paid a heavy price in beating Scott Quigg on March 10th on a rainy, wet night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Facing a fighter who failed to make the 126-pound weight limit and then came in at 142 pounds on fight night, Valdez suffered a fractured jaw.
There has been a lot of reports of the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Lucas Matthysse, scheduled for July 14th in Malaysia, not taking place as there are some financial issues plaguing that event. Golden Boy Promotions and Matthysse had been waiting on some money due to them the past few weeks.
The latest edition of 'Golden Boy on ESPN' takes place on Saturday night on ESPN2 (8 pm, ET) from the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles. The main event features highly regarded junior welterweight prospect, Vergil Ortiz, who faces former two-time world champion, Juan Carlos Salgado.
As the calendar turns officially to the summer, 'the New Blood' series continues at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California on Friday night presented by Thompson Boxing. "We have one of Danny Roman's stablemates, Isaac Zarate, who's always tough," said Alex Camponovo, the General Manager and matchmaker for the company, which developed the current WBA 122-pound belt-holder, who fought last week on Showtime and defeated Moises Flores.
Oscar De La Hoya, the founder of Golden Boy Promotions, read with great interest as undefeated IBF welterweight champion, Errol Spence, stated that he really didn't need a traditional promoter handling his career. Spence has received several offers, but told BoxingScene.com that he's not interested in signing with Eddie Hearn, Top Rank or De La Hoya.
One of the best fights on the boxing calendar is the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight final between unbeaten unified belt-holders, Murat Gassiev (who has the IBF and WBA titles) and Oleksandr Usyk (the WBO and WBC champion) who are scheduled to meet on July 21st in Moscow, Russia.
It will be a busy stretch for Tom Loeffler and 360 Promotions in the late summer, in addition to him taking care of his duties for middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, who rematches with Saul Alvarez on September 15th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, he will have other cards to promote beforehand.
In the immediate aftermath of Errol Spence taking care of mandatory challenger Carlos Ocampo in one round this past weekend in Texas, the defending IBF welterweight champion said that his return to the ring may hinge on being able to get the winner of Danny Garcia vs. Shawn Porter, who are scheduled to meet for the vacant WBC 147-pound belt.
The first encounter between unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez was a solid twelve round fight but far from a classic. But with the animosity ramped up for the rematch, Golovkin's trainer Abel Sanchez believes we could be in for a much more entertaining and violent affair on September 15th.
The potential unification match-up between IBF welterweight champion, Errol Spence (24-0, 21 KOs) and WBO titlist Terence Crawford (33-0, 24 KOs) is one of the very best that can be made in the sport of boxing. After both scored emphatic victories the past couple of weeks, there is now a clamoring for the two to collide.