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Coming off his dominant performance on May 6th, where Lucas Matthysse stopped the usually durable Emmanuel Taylor in five rounds on the Saul Alvarez-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. pay-per-view undercard at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, it was expected that he would have another fight in the fall.
Perhaps nobody has the perspective of Brian Viloria on this upcoming card at the StubHub Center this weekend that will be televised on HBO. Viloria, who will be performing on the undercard is quite familiar with Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez (who faces WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai) and Juan Francisco Estrada (who is matched with fellow Mexican, Carlos Cuadras, in a WBC final eliminator).
As he sat on his stool after the seventh round of his bout with Carson Jones, it looked like for all the world that a fading Antonio Margarito had called it a day and that Jones had scored a stoppage victory in Chihuahua, Mexico this past weekend.
This Saturday night an enticing trio of bouts in the super flyweight class takes place from the Stub Hub Center in Carson, California that is headlined by the rematch between WBC champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez, who battled over twelve grueling rounds back on March 18th with the Thai boxer getting his hands raised in victory.
With his ninth round stoppage of Shun Kubo in Kyoto, Japan on Sunday, Danny Roman captured the WBA super "regular" bantamweight title. So what's next for the sports newest belt-holder? Alex Camponovo, the General Manager and Matchmaker for Thompson Boxing, which developed Roman from scratch told BoxingScene.com:
Dmitry Bivol (11-0, 9 KOs) has burst onto the scene this year in the light heavyweight division and after blowing out Cedric Agnew in two rounds on the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev II pay-per-view undercard on June 17th, plans are being made to finish out his 2017 campaign.
A bit of a stir was caused when there were published reports that quoted former light heavyweight champion, Sergey Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs), as saying he was contemplating retirement in the wake of his loss to Andre Ward on June 17th.
Middleweight contender Hugo 'the Boss' Centeno scored one of the most eye-opening stoppages of 2017 with a lethal left hook that knocked Immanuwel Aleem out cold in the third round of their contest this past Friday night in Miami, Oklahoma.
Several years ago in Big Bear, California, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) had a much talked about sparring session at the Summit Gym with Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs). The two have gone on to bigger and better things and now they meet on September 16th in what is a highly anticipated clash that will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
While most of the focus on the weekend of September 16th will be on the highly anticipated middleweight clash between IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin and challenger Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, Golden Boy Promotions is staging a televised show on that Friday night from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.