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Frank Espinoza is best known for managing WBO featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez and recently dethroned WBO super bantamweight belt-holder Jessie Magdaleno, and also has a roster of up-and-coming prospects.
While there is no shortage of boxing this upcoming week, the fight that will garner the most attention takes place at the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City, where a battle of two supreme stylists takes place between WBA lightweight belt-holder Jorge Linares and two-division champion Vasyl Lomachenko.
With Keith Thurman no longer the WBC welterweight champion, the title is now up for grabs between their two top rated contenders, former beltholders Shawn Porter (28-2-1, 17 KOs) and Danny Garcia (34-1, 20 KOs). Porter has made it very clear recently that he yearns for this particular match-up.
Despite the fact that neither middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin or Vanes Martirosyan are of Mexican descent, their fight this weekend at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, has been named 'Mexican Style'.
On July 14th at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao will challenge Lucas Matthysse for the 'regular' WBA welterweight title. Pacquiao last fought on July 1st 2017 on ESPN where he dropped a highly disputed decision to Jeff Horn in Australia, in what was the debut of Top Rank's exclusive deal with the network.
Originally Golden Boy Promotions had planned on being in Las Vegas this week where the rematch between Saul Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin was scheduled for the T-Mobile Arena on May 5th. But that event was scrapped a few weeks ago as Alvarez was suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission for six months for testing positive for clenbuterol.
This weekend was supposed to be the anticipated rematch between unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, and Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - but that fight was scuttled as the Mexican superstar tested positive for clenbuterol and was eventually suspended for six months by the Nevada Athletic Commission. Alvarez is eligible to return to the ring in the late summer and is slated to return on September 15th.
While Ryan Garcia takes on Jason Velez, in what is to date his toughest challenge as a professional prizefighter this Friday night from the StubHub Center in Carson, California, he has bigger targets on his mind. Such as WBA 130-pound titlist, Gervonta Davis (20-0, 19 KOs), who just last week wrecked Jesus Cuellar in three rounds at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
It was expected that former four division world champion Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez would co-headline this upcoming card at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, alongside unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin - who faces late replacement Vanes Martirosyan in the HBO televised main event.
Isaac Dogboe (19-0, 13 KOs) made a statement on Saturday night in Philadelphia, when he recovered from a first round knockdown to score three of his own, and stopped undefeated Jessie Magdaleno in the eleventh round to become the newly crowned WBO super bantamweight champion.