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One of the featured bouts of the November 5th pay-per-view card that features Manny Pacquiao against WBO welterweight belt-holder Jessie Vargas, is the bout between WBO super bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire (37-3, 24KOs) and mandatory challenger Jessie Magdaleno (23-0, 17KOs).
There is a lot of talk swirling around a possible middleweight showdown between unified champion Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs) and Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29KOs). This match-up would take place on December 10th in New York.
Sampson Lewkowicz, the head of Sampson Boxing, confirms that a fight between WBA 130-pound belt-holder Jason Sosa and Gervonta Davis will not be taking place.
After a two-and-a-half year layoff, Mikey Garcia returned to the ring on July 30th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn by stopping Elio Rojas in five rounds. There was talk that Garcia (35-0, 29 KO's) would return in the early fall.
Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramirez (34-0, 24KOs) was scheduled to make the first defense of his WBO super middleweight title on July 23rd on the pay-per-view undercard that featured the junior welterweight unification bout between Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
As the summer has ended, the boxing world now focuses in on it's fall schedule. And for Top Rank that means scheduling dates for two of their premiere fighters, Terence Crawford (29-0, 20KOs) and Vasyl Lomachenko (6-1, 4KOs).
It was announced by Main Events today that a light heavyweight bout between Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Isaac Chilemba would be part of the HBO pay-per-view undercard on November 19th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, where Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward headline.
A couple of days ago Top Rank announced the signing of two-time Irish Olympian, Michael 'Mick' Conlan to a promotional deal. Conlan is considered to be a talented and marketable fighter.
There was talk of Showtime - which didn't have any major bouts scheduled for this month - picking back up in October. Some of the fights being mentioned were Danny Garcia-Andre Berto, Dejan Zlaticanin-Mikey Garcia and Jermall Charlo-Julian Williams - but it looks like those fights will not be taking place next month and therefore Showtime will essentially be going dark.
On July 23rd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Oscar Valdez captured his first world title by stopping Matias Rueda in two rounds to win the vacant WBO featherweight title.