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Orlando Salido, coming off his 12-round draw versus Francisco Vargas on June 4th, was slated to appear on December 17th against Takashi Miura at the Forum in Los Angeles on HBO. But a back injury knocked him out of that assignment and it was announced last week that Miura and Vargas would co-headline an HBO telecast on January 28th from the Fantasy Springs Casino.
As of Tuesday, despite what was being brandied about over the weekend, the bout between WBA middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs) and Daniel Jacobs has not been finalized.
This Saturday from the Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, Andy Ruiz faces Joseph Parker for the vacant WBO heavyweight title. Ruiz has had problems controlling his weight in the past has spent this training camp working with noted trainer Abel Sanchez at 'the Summit' in Big Bear, California.
Tomorrow in Moscow, Denis Lebedev defends his IBF cruiserweight title against the hard-hitting and unbeaten Murat Gassiev in Moscow, Russia, in what is expected to be an exciting contest.
On July 23rd, hard-nosed welterweight Francisco 'Chia' Santana lost a hard-fought ten round decision to Jose Benavides at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight was featured as part of the HBO Pay-Per-View undercard to the junior welterweight unification between Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol.
Talented lightweight prospect Ryan 'Blue Chip' Martin has been added to the December 16th card at the Fantasy Springs in Indio, California, that is being staged by Golden Boy Promotions.
During the late summer as plans were being made for Felix Verdejo to face WBO lightweight belt-holder Terry Flanagan on the Manny Pacquiao-Jessie Vargas pay-per-view undercard on November 5th, the highly touted Puerto Rican prospect got into a motorcycle accident that scuttled those plans and sidelined him for the rest of 2016.
On December 17th at the Forum in Inglewood, California, WBO cruiserweight titlist, Oleksander Usyk (10-0, 9KOs) takes on Thabiso Mchunu in what is not only his Stateside debut but also his introduction to the HBO audience as well.
Tim Van Newhouse, who manages bantamweight Antonio Nieves, says that his man should be the one who faces WBA bantamweight belt-holder, Rau'Shee Warren (14-1, 4KOs) in his first title defense.
Despite having a record that hovers right around .500, Dashon 'Fly Boy' Johnson - who has a mark of 21-20- 3(6 KO's) - is precisely the type of fighter that promoter Russell Peltz wants to work with.