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BoxingScene.com first reported last week that former world champion Juan 'Baby Bull' Diaz (42-4, 21KOs), who was scheduled to face Ray Beltran (31-7-1, 19KOs) on December 10th in Omaha, Nebraska, had pulled out of the fight with an injury.
Next Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, WBO super featherweight titlist, Vasyl Lomachenko, defends his crown against Nicholas Walters on HBO. The rest of this card (which will not be televised) has been set by Top Rank.
BoxingScene.com has been advised by multiple sources that Juan 'Baby Bull' Diaz (42-4, 21KOs), who was scheduled to face Ray Beltran (31-7-1, 19KOs) on December 10th in Omaha, Nebraska has pulled out of the fight with an injury.
While he faces James De la Rosa on the Sergey Kovalev-Andre Ward pay-per-view undercard from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Curtis Stevens clearly has his eyes on a particular target in 2017.
On the night of December 17th at the Forum in Inglewood, California an HBO triple-header takes place that is headlined by the farewell fight of Bernard Hopkins who takes on Joe Smith.
As IBF, WBO, WBA light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (30-0, 26KOs) and challenger Andre Ward (30-0, 15KOs) meet on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the third man in the ring will be veteran referee Robert Byrd.
Sergey Kovalev (30-0, 26KOs) defends his light heavyweight titles this weekend at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas against Olympic gold medal winner Andre Ward (30-0, 15KOs).
This past weekend in Monaco, Jason Sosa (20-1-4, 15KOs) made the first successful defense of his WBA "regular" super featherweight title by defeating Stephen Smith over twelve brisk and entertaining rounds.
Promoter Greg Cohen believed he had a big fight lined up for his lightweight contender Mason Menard late last week. There were serious discussions for Menard to fight Olympic gold medal winner and former world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa. The fight would have been showcased on a big televised card next month.
Tonight from the WinneVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa, another card featuring prospects from the stable of Greg Cohen Promotions takes place that will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network. Hermanito De La Torre, Malik Hawkins and Skender Halili will all be showcased as they have been before on this platform.