
Salido Leans Away From Lomachenko, Moves in New Direction
As the new year dawns, Orlando Salido - who battled Francisco Vargas to a draw on June 4th in what is considered by many to be the best fight of 2016 - isn't doing all that much.

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As the new year dawns, Orlando Salido - who battled Francisco Vargas to a draw on June 4th in what is considered by many to be the best fight of 2016 - isn't doing all that much.

Brian Viloria has had a solid career that saw him win various world titles at 108 and 112 pounds after representing the United States in the 2000 Olympic Games.

The last time we saw Nonito Donaire, he lost his WBO super bantamweight title to Jessie Magdaleno on the night of November 5th on the Manny Pacquiao-Jessie Vargas pay-per-view undercard at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.

On December 10th in Auckland, New Zealand heavyweight Andy Ruiz lost a razor thin decision to Joseph Parker for the vacant WBO title. For this fight, Ruiz was under the tutelage of Abel Sanchez and trained at his Summit Gym in Big Bear, California.

2016 was a successful one for eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao (59-6-2, 38KOs) , who banked a dominant decision win over Tim Bradley in their trilogy bout in April and then came back in November to unseat once-beaten Jessie Vargas for the WBO welterweight title.

For the time being world-rated heavyweight, Jarrell 'Big Baby' Miller, is biding his time before he gets a crack at one of the heavyweight titles. But his patience is wearing thin as 2016 comes to a close.

While Andre Rozier prepares Daniel Jacobs for his March 18th showdown against unified middleweight champion, Gennady Golovkin, he still has other fighters in his stable to tend do.

It's been a huge 2016 for light heavyweight contender Joe Smith, who upset the heavily favored Andrzej Fonfara with a first round knockout and then ended the career of future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins this past weekend at the Forum in Inglewood, California - by knocking him clear out of the ring in the eighth round.

For the first time since 2012, unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) will be fighting just twice in a calendar year. Golovkin, who is scheduled to face Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) on March 18th at the Madison Square Garden, will try and rectify that in 2017.

There has been some talk of a Long Island-area showdown between Joe Smith Jr. (23-1, 19KOs) and Seanie Monaghan (28-0, 17KOs) in the wake of Smith's big knockout victory over Bernard Hopkins this past weekend at the Forum in Inglewood, California, that was televised on HBO.