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Two big pay-per-view fights are coming up in the next few months. On March 18th, Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) will defend his WBA, WBC, IBF, IBO middleweight titles against Daniel Jacobs at New York's Madison Square Garden. And on May 6th, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) will move up to a catch-weight of 164.5-pounds to face countryman Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. faces Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez on May 6th in what is a highly anticipated clash between two Mexican stars. For this contest, a catch-weight of 164.5 pounds has been instituted. The last time Chavez fought this close to the middleweight limit (160 pounds) was back in September of 2012 when he took on Sergio Martinez.
On May 6th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, a Mexican showdown takes place between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in what is a highly anticipated event that is being promoted by Golden Boy Promotions.
A pair of champions managed by Frank Espinoza, Jessie Magdaleno (the WBO super bantamweight titlist) and Oscar Valdez (who has the WBO featherweight title) have been in the gym since January and have been awaiting their next assignment.
It's now less than a month before Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) defends his IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight belts against mandatory challenger Danny Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) from the Madison Square Garden in New York City.
It was a close, hard-fought split decision that went against Adrian Granados this past weekend as he battled Adrien Broner for ten rounds at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Granados had to deal with a late change in the weight limit (from 142 to 147) along with fighting Broner in his backyard.
On Monday morning featherweight hopeful, Daniel Franco, was at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California, getting in some sparring. Franco last fought on November 10th, stopping Derrick Murray in four rounds in Washington, D.C.
Cameron Dunkin, best known for having managed the likes of Kelly Pavlik, Nonito Donaire and Terrence Crawford among many other world champions, has added to his vast stable of boxers.
According to manager Alex Vaysfeld, who handles the career of junior welterweight contender Sergey Lipinets, his boxer will be returning to the ring in a couple of weeks. The dangerous puncher will return on March 4th, as part of the undercard to the big welterweight unification between Danny Garcia and Keith Thurman at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Yesterday it was reported by BoxingScene.com that a light heavyweight shootout between WBC titlist Adonis Stevenson and Joe Smith would not be taking place this spring. The comments from Joe Deguardia (the head of STAR Boxing, which handles Smith) have irked Yvon Michel, who promotes Stevenson.