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Middleweight Gabe Rosado is now back in training at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California. The well-traveled Rosado (23-11, 13 KO's) is coming off an April 22nd twelve round decision loss to Martin Murray. It's a loss that he disputes vehemently.
Its not clear if WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs) and WBA super bantamweight titlist Guillermo Rigondeaux (18-0, 12 KOs) will ever meet inside the ring, but their representatives are certainly not afraid to spar verbally.
Suddenly there is a lot of chatter of a fight between WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs) and WBA super bantamweight titlist, Guillermo Rigondeaux (18-0, 12 KOs), with Lomachenko needing an opponent for the late summer.
So who will WBO super featherweight titlist Vasyl Lomachenko face next? "I know we're going to be fighting in August, I really don't know when it is but we're still preparing for the fight but I really don't know," said Egis Klimas, who manages the skilled Ukrainian, to BoxingScene.com.
On September 9th, HBO will televise a show featuring a trio of super flyweight bouts that is headlined by the rematch between WBC titlist Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and challenger Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez. The card will be supported by the all-Mexican battle between Carlos Caudras and Juan Francisco Estrada and the Stateside debut of the highly regarded WBO belt-holder, Nayao Inoue from Japan.
Dmitry Bivol continues to build a buzz after halting Cedric Agnew in four rounds this past Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev pay-per-view undercard. Agnew had previously gone seven rounds with Kovalev.
Abel Sanchez, who once worked with former champion Sergey Kovalev (30-2, 26 KOs), isn't all that surprised that he has seemingly tuned out trainer John David Jackson in his last few fights and many believe that a parting of ways between the two is inevitable after consecutive losses to Andre Ward (32-0, 16 KOs). Last Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Ward stopped Kovalev in the eight round of their rematch.
There's a very simple reason why trainer Abel Sanchez is not on the Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) vs. Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) press tour that concludes in Los Angeles on Thursday evening. No, he's not being wooed by Team 'Canelo' to work on their side on September 16th.
For Luis Arias, taking on Arif Magomedov was his chance to showcase his skills to a world-wide audience which hadn't seen him in a few years. This fight took place this past Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on the pay-per-view undercard to the Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev rematch.
It was officially announced by ESPN and Top Rank that Manny Pacquiao's defense of the WBO welterweight title from Brisbane, Australia versus Jeff Horn will be a prime time telecast on ESPN on July 1st. Bob Arum, the head of Top Rank believes that 'the Pac Man' is the perfect fighter to showcase on this stage.