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Should Jessie Magdaleno successfully defend his WBO super bantamweight title versus his mandatory challenger, Isaac Dogboe, last today in Philadelphia, he has one goal in mind. Unify the titles. "That's the plan after this fight," stated Magdaleno (25-0, 18 KO's) to BoxingScene.com.
This Saturday night from the Liacouras Center on the campus of Temple University an all-Philadelphia heavyweight battle takes place between Joey Dawejko (19-4-4, 11 KOs) and Bryant Jennings (22-2, 14 KOs) that will be broadcast nationally on ESPN.
Heavyweight contender Dominic Breazeale (19-1, 17 KOs) is dutifully going to the gym on a daily basis despite not having a fight scheduled. But he believes he will have one soon and against a certain belt-holder.
With Keith Thurman making the decision to relinquish the WBC welterweight title, the vacant title will now be contested between the two leading contenders, Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia. "I've been contacted by the higher-ups in that situation and I've been given the information that it's definitely going to happen,'' said Kenny Porter, the father/trainer/manager of the former IBF welterweight belt-holder.
On March 27th, 360 Promotions staged their first edition of 'Hollywood Fight Night' series at the Avalon Hollywood. The second installment of this series will take place on Tuesday May 22nd at the same venue.
On March 3rd, Dmitry Bivol (13-0, 11 KOs) successfully defended his WBA light heavyweight title by stopping the durable Sullivan Barrera in the twelfth round at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was the second defense of the title after Bivol scored a first round knockout over Trent Broadhurst last November in Monte Carlo.
Last week it was announced that Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) would be suspended for six months by the Nevada Athletic Commission. A few weeks ago he withdrew from his highly anticipated rematch with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) which was scheduled to headline an HBO Pay-Per-View on May 5th at the T-Mobile Arena.
While Hugo Centeno (26-1, 14 KOs) is a sizable underdog to Jermall Charlo (26-0, 20 KOs) later tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, his trainer Eric Brown believes his fighter will be just fine as he battles for the WBC interim middleweight title.
Vadkim Kornilov is best known for managing former junior welterweight champion, Ruslan Provodnikov, and current WBA light heavyweight belt-holder Dmitry Bivol, and he believes he has another future champion in Batyr Ahmedov from Uzbekistan who currently has a record of 3-0 (2 KO's).
With the fight between unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and Vanes Martirosyan set for the StubHub Center in Carson, California on May 5th, and Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez slated as the co-feature, now the other parts of the undercard are now coming together.