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According to promoter Joe Deguardia a potential light heavyweight slugfest between his man, Joe Smith, and reigning WBC champion Adonis Stevenson will not be taking place in the spring.
On Monday morning at the Rock in Carson, California, rising super middleweight contender David Benavides was getting in some sparring. It's clear that this 20-year old is going places and will soon be in the title mix at 168 pounds.
This past Friday night from the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio, Robert Easter made the first successful defense of his IBF lightweight title by out-pointing Luis Cruz over twelve rounds (flooring the Puerto Rican challenger three times in the late rounds).
It was announced on Tuesday afternoon that 2016 Mexican Olympian, Raul Curiel, had signed a promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions. The 21-year old Curiel is aligned with respected manager, Frank Espinoza, who also inked Curiel's Olympic teammate, Joselito Velasquez.
It was revealed by Adrien Granados last week on a conference call with reporters that his bout this Saturday night against former four division world champion Adrien Broner had been moved from a weight limit of 142 pounds to the full welterweight limit of 147.
Frank Espinoza - who currently manages world champions Oscar Valdez and Jesse Magdaleno - has added to his talented roster of boxers by signing 2016 Mexican Olympian Raul Curiel.
In the late summer of 2016, undefeated welterweight Jose Benavides was shot in the leg by an unknown assailant while walking his dog in in Arizona. The severity of the injuries sustained to his leg left doubt on his professional career.
Currently, WBO super featherweight belt-holder Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1, 5 KOs) is scheduled to face Jason Sosa, who holds the WBA "regular" title, on April 8th on a card that will be televised by HBO. But, Lomachenko and his team have designs are bigger fights against the marquee names in the sport.
For the past few weeks there had been talk of a heavyweight match-up between unbeatens Luis Ortiz (27-0, 23 KOs) and Jarrell 'Big Baby' Miller (18-0-1, 16 KOs) - a fight that both Showtime and HBO were said to be interested in - but it looks like this fight will not materialize any time soon.
Recently Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs), the current WBO middleweight belt-holder, was given an exception to bypass his mandatory challenger, Avantil Khurtsidze, who took a step-aside fee. According to Saunders, he is now free to pursue a much bigger fight.