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Lomachenko may fight Jezreel Corrales in a unfication and Gvozdyk may fight Yunieski Gonzalez as a co-feature but these have not been finalize yet..
HBO snub Arum offer of Valdez-Donaire and Ramirez-Jesse Hart but may end up in undercard of Pac-Horn if its PPV or be a PPV on its own..
plus Verdejo, Joseph Parker and Ryota Murata news. BJS against Murata would be be great.
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Arum said HBO has given him April 15 for a card to be headlined by junior lightweight world titleholder Vasyl Lomachenko, of Ukraine, with up-and-coming Ukrainian light heavyweight Oleksandr Gvozdyk ticketed for the co-feature.
Arum said the opponents are not set, but Lomachenko could face Panama’s Jezreel Corrales in a title unification fight. On New Year’s Eve, Corrales scored his second win in a row against Takashi Uchiyama, from whom he took the title last April in a major upset.
“Obviously, Corrales is the preferred opponent because it’s a unification fight and [Lomachenko] is obsessed with getting the other titles,” Arum said. “But there are other options.”
Gvozdyk may fight Cuban defector Yunieski Gonzalez, who many felt was robbed of a decision on HBO against former world champion Jean Pascal in 2015.
Arum said the card could take place at the new MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino, which sits on the banks of the Potomac River in Oxon Hill, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Arum said the opponents are not set, but Lomachenko could face Panama’s Jezreel Corrales in a title unification fight. On New Year’s Eve, Corrales scored his second win in a row against Takashi Uchiyama, from whom he took the title last April in a major upset.
“Obviously, Corrales is the preferred opponent because it’s a unification fight and [Lomachenko] is obsessed with getting the other titles,” Arum said. “But there are other options.”
Gvozdyk may fight Cuban defector Yunieski Gonzalez, who many felt was robbed of a decision on HBO against former world champion Jean Pascal in 2015.
Arum said the card could take place at the new MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino, which sits on the banks of the Potomac River in Oxon Hill, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
HBO snub Arum offer of Valdez-Donaire and Ramirez-Jesse Hart but may end up in undercard of Pac-Horn if its PPV or be a PPV on its own..
-While Arum is pleased to have a date for Lomachenko and Gvozdyk, he said HBO passed on a March doubleheader he proposed that would have featured featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez -- possibly against former titleholder Nonito Donaire -- in the main event and super middleweight titlist Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez against undefeated up-and-comer Jesse Hart in the co-feature.
“They could have that card for less than a million dollars, but they passed,” said Arum.
HBO has only one non-pay-per-view event on the calendar for January, won’t have any in February and may not have any in March.
-Arum said he might take the two fights he offered to HBO for March, plus the first defense of junior featherweight titleholder Jessie Magdaleno (who won the belt from Donaire in November), and turn it into a small pay-per-view to come from Tucson, Arizona, where Valdez grew up. There is strong interest from the city and one of the local casinos in having a Valdez defense there.
Arum said the other option for the Valdez/Ramirez/Magdaleno bouts is to put them on April 22 from a U.S. site and have them serve as the televised pay-per-view undercard of Pacquiao-Horn if Pacquiao-Horn indeed goes on pay-per-view; Arum said his preference is to make a deal for it to be on free TV or HBO.
“They could have that card for less than a million dollars, but they passed,” said Arum.
HBO has only one non-pay-per-view event on the calendar for January, won’t have any in February and may not have any in March.
-Arum said he might take the two fights he offered to HBO for March, plus the first defense of junior featherweight titleholder Jessie Magdaleno (who won the belt from Donaire in November), and turn it into a small pay-per-view to come from Tucson, Arizona, where Valdez grew up. There is strong interest from the city and one of the local casinos in having a Valdez defense there.
Arum said the other option for the Valdez/Ramirez/Magdaleno bouts is to put them on April 22 from a U.S. site and have them serve as the televised pay-per-view undercard of Pacquiao-Horn if Pacquiao-Horn indeed goes on pay-per-view; Arum said his preference is to make a deal for it to be on free TV or HBO.
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