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On the night of September 10th at the Forum in Inglewood, California, Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez captured the WBC 115-pound title with a hard-fought 12-round decision over Carlos Cuadras.
While the contracts have not been signed, it looks like Bernard Hopkins (55-7-2, 32KOs) will be facing Joe Smith (22-1, 18KOs) in what will be his farewell fight on December 17th at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
There is a lot of discussion over a heavyweight bout between Andy Ruiz and Joseph Parker (21-0, 18KOs), which could be contested for the vacant WBO title. And as he prepares for this fight, the 27-year old Ruiz - who has battled the bulge rather unsuccessfully in the past - is back up in Big Bear, California with trainer Abel Sanchez, who is best known for his work with middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.
For the time being, IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs) is scheduled to fight on December 10th. The hope is that he will face WBA 'regular' champion and mandatory challenger Danny Jacobs.
This Friday night at 2300 Arena in Philadelphia another card takes place that is being promoted by Russell Peltz. The likes of Tevin Farmer and Mike Reed are on the bill but the main event is a super welterweight contest between Tyrone Brunson (23-6-1, 22KOs) and Ismael Garcia (10-0-1, 4KOs).
It was announced by the World Boxing Association on Wednesday afternoon that they had rejected the request of Danny Jacobs and his representatives to have the purse bid split with Gennady Golovkin modified from the standard 75-25 (in favor of Golovkin, who is the WBA 'super' champion at middleweight) to more favorable 60-40.
Currently IBF, WBA, WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (30-0, 26KOs) is up in the mountains of Big Bear, California preparing for his November 19th showdown against Andre Ward (30-0, 15KOs). And early on, his trainer John David Jackson likes what he sees.
51-year-old Bernard Hopkins has made it clear that he would like one more fight before calling it quits on his illustrious boxing career. And with that, Golden Boy Promotions is in the process of finding a suitable opponent for him.
There was a time when Golden Boy Promotions did a regular rotation of cards in Texas. The past few years they haven't done much in 'the Lone Star State' outside of big promotions featuring Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, who in the past two years has headlined at the Minute Maid Park at Houston and most recently at AT&T Center in Arlington, Texas against Liam Smith.
So will the fight between unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs) and Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (48-1-1, 34KOs) take place next September?