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Murat Gassiev, the IBF cruiserweight champion, has been hard at work at the Summit Gym in Big Bear - working alongside stablemate Gennady Golovkin - where he prepares for his upcoming bout against Krzystof Wlodarczyk, which is part of the eight-man cruiserweight tournament in the inaugural edition of 'the World Boxing Super Series'.
Gennady Golovkin is now in camp in Big Bear with trainer Abel Sanchez preparing for his September 16th assignment against Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs). "It's been two weeks, maybe this time I'm more excited, it's more serious for me. It's my biggest fight, I feel more emotion for this fight,"said Golovkin on Wednesday afternoon, who has yearned for a fight of this magnitude since coming over to America in 2012.
After winning the WBO 122-pound title from Nonito Donaire last November, Jessie Magdaleno made the first defense of that belt by blowing out the over-matched Adelison Dos Santos in two rounds on April 22nd.
So what's next for WBO featherweight titlist, Oscar Valdez, who gutted out a tough twelve round decision over Miguel Marriaga on April 22nd at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, in his last outing? It could be a late September return.
The IBF's top rated rated super lightweight Sergey Lipinets, and his handlers, aren't happy that the International Boxing Federation has granted an exemption for Julius Indongo (who holds the IBF, IBO and WBA 140-pound titles) to face WBC, WBO champion Terence Crawford on August 19th in a match-up that will crown one unified champion in the division. ESPN will televise the contest.
While Mikey Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs) has stated that he plans to move back to lightweight after his junior welterweight encounter against Adrien Broner, which takes place this weekend at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, it really depends on the opportunities that exist in the 135-pound class. His brother and co-trainer, Robert Garcia, told BoxingScene.com:
It was Marcos Maidana who handed Adrien Broner his first loss back in December of 2013, knocking him down twice in the process and taking away whatever cloak of invincibility he had - and snatching away Broner's WBA welterweight title. In Maidana's corner that night was Robert Garcia, the brother and co-trainer of Mikey Garcia, who faces Broner this Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
BoxingScene.com has been advised by Sergio Diaz, the long-time co-manager of Antonio Margarito (40-8, 27 KO's), that his fighter will be facing Carson Jones in Chihuahua, Mexico on September 2nd. For Margarito, who faced Jorge Paez Jr. and Ramon Alvarez in his return to the ring in 2016, this is a fight that his manager strongly suggested.
While WBO super featherweight titlist, Vasyl Lomachenko, has an August 5th assignment against Miguel Marriaga at the Microsoft Theater at LA Live on ESPN, promoter Bob Arum says it wont be the last time we see 'Hi-Tech' in 2017.
While HBO Sports is distributing the September 16th middleweight showdown between middleweight ruler Gennady Golovkin and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, the centerpiece of their upcoming schedule on the actual network takes place the week before at the StubHub Center in Carson, California where a trio of super flyweight bouts are being highlighted by the network.