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American boxing fans will have an avenue to view the WBO lightweight title fight between defending champion Terry Flanagan and challenger Petr Petrov, which takes place at the Manchester Arena in England this Saturday.
Main Events CEO Kathy Duva can now finally say it - the rematch between Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev (who met last November) is a go. "We do have a fight, it got done this morning," confirmed the head of Main Events to BoxingScene.com this afternoon.
Ray Beltran has had problems securing a lightweight title shot, so for the time being he'll do what he can to put himself in position for one. On May 20th from the Madison Square Garden in New York, he'll face Jonathan Maicelo as the co-feature before Terence Crawford takes on Felix Diaz on HBO.
After a much ballyhooed pro debut on March 16th at the Theater of Madison Square Garden in front of a large throng of his countrymen, Irish sensation Michael Conlan, will be making his second start sometime in May. The question is where?
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum says that a deal to have WBO welterweight titlist Manny Pacquiao (59-6-2, 38 KOs) and undefeated 2012 Australian Olympian Jeff Horn (16-0-1, 11 KOs) face each other in the summer, in Australia, is still being worked on but he wants to make one thing clear.
Roman Gonzalez lost more than just his WBC super flyweight title on the night of March 18th against Srisaket Sor Rungvisai at the Madison Square Garden in New York. He also lost his mythical status as the best fighter in the world.
On Saturday night from the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, a match-up of two undefeated junior welterweights takes place on ESP2, when Antonio Orozco (25-0, 16 KO's) takes on Keandre Gibson (16-0-1, 7 KO's).
So what's the latest with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs), who was last seen defending his world titles against Daniel Jacobs on March 18th at the Madison Square Garden in New York? There has been a lot of talk of him making a homecoming fight in his native Kazakhstan on June date against Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs), who has the last middleweight belt (WBO) not in Golovkin's possession.
It was announced on Tuesday, that light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (18-1, 13 KOs) would face Paul Parker (8-1, 4 KOs) on April 15th - as the main event bout of an HBO Latino card from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.
So what's next for Jorge Linares after his virtuoso performance against Anthony Crolla this past weekend at the Manchester Arena, where he successfully defended his WBA lightweight title?