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By Jake Donovan
The road to crowning a vacant IBF lightweight titlist has taken yet another turn.
Boxingscene.com has been informed that plans are in the works for a vacant title fight between lightweight contenders Ali Funeka and Joan Guzman.
The bout has already been approved by the IBF, whose vacant lightweight belt would be at stake should the two sides come to terms.
September 19 is the target date for the fight, placing it on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez headlined pay-per-view telecast in Las Vegas.
The move makes sense, as the undefeated Guzman (29-0, 17KO) recently signed an exclusive promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions, who along with Mayweather Promotions serves as the promoters of record for the aforementioned pay-per-view card.
Phone calls to Golden Boy Promotions and Gary Shaw Productions, the US-promoter of record for Funeka, went unreturned.
Efforts to fill the vacancy have proven to be troublesome for the New Jersey-based sanctioning body ever since Nate Campbell was forced to concede the belt on the scales prior to his 12-round decision win over Funeka (30-2, 25KO) earlier this year. [details]
The road to crowning a vacant IBF lightweight titlist has taken yet another turn.
Boxingscene.com has been informed that plans are in the works for a vacant title fight between lightweight contenders Ali Funeka and Joan Guzman.
The bout has already been approved by the IBF, whose vacant lightweight belt would be at stake should the two sides come to terms.
September 19 is the target date for the fight, placing it on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez headlined pay-per-view telecast in Las Vegas.
The move makes sense, as the undefeated Guzman (29-0, 17KO) recently signed an exclusive promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions, who along with Mayweather Promotions serves as the promoters of record for the aforementioned pay-per-view card.
Phone calls to Golden Boy Promotions and Gary Shaw Productions, the US-promoter of record for Funeka, went unreturned.
Efforts to fill the vacancy have proven to be troublesome for the New Jersey-based sanctioning body ever since Nate Campbell was forced to concede the belt on the scales prior to his 12-round decision win over Funeka (30-2, 25KO) earlier this year. [details]
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