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Junior welterweight hopeful, Alex Saucedo (26-0, 16 KO's), faces Abner Lopez (25-8, 21 KO's) this Saturday from the StubHub Center in Carson, California as part of the Top Rank undercard that takes place before the ESPN broadcast begins.
Back on December 10th, 2016 - Andy Ruiz narrowly lost to Joseph Parker for the vacant WBO heavyweight title in Auckland, New Zealand. Parker went forward with his career, making several defenses and is now scheduled for a major unification with IBF, IBO, WBA world champion Anthony Joshua on March 31 at Principality in Cardiff, Wales.
Even with the positive drug test of Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs), unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) says he still prefers for their highly lucrative rematch to take place on May 5th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
As of now the highly anticipated rematch between unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and challenger Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is still a go even with Alvarez testing positive for a banned substance. It was revealed on Monday that Canelo had tested positive for clenbuterol ahead of the scheduled rematch on May 5.
Veteran trainer Abel Sanchez, who heads the corner of IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, has had a strong reaction to Saul "Canelo" Alvarez testing positive for clenbuterol ahead of their May 5th rematch at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. More so than Canelo, Sanchez is upset with the Mexican superstar's handlers - because of their background and association with the meat industry.
They say styles make fights and we could have a good one as WBO featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez (23-0, 19 KO's) faces Scott Quigg (34-1-2, 25 KO's) from the StubHub Center in Carson, California as the main event on ESPN on Saturday night.
Light heavyweight world champions Sergey Kovalev and Dmitry Bivol both scored emphatic victories this past weekend at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. And it looks like both will be returning to this facility for their next fights in the summer. "We're looking at July, there's a few dates they have available," said Main Events CEO Kathy Duva, who represents both light heavyweight belt-holders, to BoxingScene.com.
Earlier today, Golden Boy Promotions released a statement regarding the fact that Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez had tested positive for a trace level amount of clenbuterol as he looks ahead to his May 5th rematch with unified middleweight champion, Gennady Golovkin. So the question is, what is the status of this fight that is scheduled to take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas?
After impressively handling Andre Dirrell on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, super middleweight contender Jose Uzcategui (27-2, 3 KOs) is now in line to face the winner of the IBF title rematch between champion Caleb Truax and champion James DeGale. The victory over Dirrell gave Uzcategui the IBF interim title.
Sullivan Barrera turned down a more lucrative offer to face WBO light heavyweight titlist Sergey Kovalev in order to face WBA belt-holder Dmitry Bivol, later tonight at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in what will be the opening bout on HBO as part of their televised doubleheader.