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It was a disappointing night for David Lemieux who was clearly out-boxed by Billy Joe Saunders in his attempt to win the WBO middleweight title at the Place Bell in Laval, Quebec, this past Saturday night. Lemieux didn't just lose, but he looked flat and listless over the twelve rounds.
Things were getting interesting between super featherweights, Carlos Morales and Dardan Zenunaj, who headline on ESPN2 on Thursday night from the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. While Morales had jumped out to an early lead, the aggressive Zenunaj was starting to close ground on him heading into the second half of this scheduled ten-rounder.
IBF junior welterweight champion, Sergey Lipinets, will be taking a big step as it has been announced that he will be facing three-time divisional champion, Mikey Garcia on February 10th at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The fight will be televised by Showtime. Through his manager, Alex Vaysfeld, he told BoxingScene.com - "When I won my title it was a great fight with the Japanese fighter, (Akihiro) Kondo but it didn't feel right to me at that time or even after that like I'm a champion and that I'm respected by the boxing community by beating him."
Cesar Juarez was scheduled to face WBO 122 pound belt-holder Jessie Magdaleno on November 11th in Fresno, California. But that bout was scrapped as the defending champion pulled out of that fight claiming a training injury. Juarez, the top rated contender in the WBO, was very skeptical of the whole scenario and with that will be traveling to Accra, Ghana to face Isaac Dogboe for the interim WBO title on January 6th.
So what's next for WBO super featherweight titlist, Vasyl Lomachneko, who made Guillermo Rigondeaux submit in six rounds this past weekend at the Theater of MSG? "I heard that somebody from Top Rank is already talking about a unification. We want to unify titles. I think they've been talking to (Miguel) Berchelt, the WBC title-holder or any other unification," said Lomachenko's manager, Egis Klimas, to BoxingScene.com.
On Wednesday in Brisbane, Australia, Jeff Horn (17-0-1, 11 KOs) makes the first defense of his WBO welterweight title against Gary Corcoran in a bout that will be televised in the early hours by ESPN in the United States.
It was a rather abrupt and surprising end to the bout between WBO super featherweight champion, Vasyl Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs), and Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs). While the Ukrainian was dominating the action after six rounds he wasn't putting a beating on Rigondeaux, who had moved up two weight classes for this fight.
So does the winner of the upcoming bout between WBO middleweight champion, Billy Joe Saunders, and David Lemieux, become a fall back option for Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) - if the rematch with Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) is not successfully negotiated for next May?
Vasyl Lomachenko dominated previously undefeated Guillermo Rigondeaux to the point where the Cuban called it a night after six rounds at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City this past weekend. The reigning WBO super featherweight titlist, could soon be moving up to lightweight. After capturing a world title at 126-pounds and then 130-pounds, Lomachenko is looking for his third division title.
This Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas there is an all-Mexican super featherweight battle between Orlando Salido and Miguel 'Micky' Roman, which will be broadcast on HBO. Veteran trainer, Rudy Hernandez, is now working with Roman (57-12/44 KO's) and he says bluntly - "I'm expecting a war, I'm expecting it to be a candidate for 'fight of the year' and I think it's going to be a really, really tough fight for both."