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MGM Grand, Las Vegas - WBO super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia will be ringside later tonight, when Alfredo "Perro" Angulo battles for WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in a Showtime Pay-Per-View headliner. Garcia is on the fence regarding which fighter will pull it out at the end, but he anticipates some rocky moments for Canelo.
Mikey Garcia has first-hand knowledge of Orlando Salido’s toughness and durability, but he, too, expects Vasyl Lomachenko to defeat Salido on Saturday night in San Antonio. “Salido is a tough guy,” Garcia said. “I’m looking forward to that fight. Skills do beat experience and toughness, just the way I was beating Salido with skills. Salido is the more experienced of the two, so it should be a very good fight. But Lomachenko should beat him with skills.”
Ryan Burton catches up with two-time Olympic gold medal winner Vasyl Lomachenko to discuss his upcoming fight with WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Lomachenko talks about training camp, going for a world title in his second pro fight and more.
Unbeaten Miguel “Mikey” Garcia is likely to return to action sometime in June, with or without Yuriorkis Gamboa as an opponent, Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler told Boxingscene.com on Saturday night. The proposed bout between Garcia and Gamboa was penciled to take place on May 17th at the newly renovated Forum in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. It looks as though Top Rank will focus its resources to finalize a proposed bout between Juan Manuel Marquez and Mike Alvarado on that date.
Former champion Brandon Rios is backing his Oxnard stablemate, Mikey Garcia (34-0, 28KOs), to secure a knockout victory over Olympic gold medal winner Yuriorkis Gamboa (23-0, 16KOs). Top Rank and 50 Cent are both on board with making Garcia-Gamboa happen. The fight is targeted to take place on May 17th, but it very well may get pushed back to a date in June. In 2012, Rios was scheduled to face Gamboa. The fight fell apart after Gamboa no-showed the entire promotional tour. There was a financial dispute between Top Rank and Gamboa. A legal battle followed, with 50 Cent buying out Gamboa's contract from Top Rank.
Olympic gold medal winner Yuriorkis Gamboa (23-0, 16KOs) is planning to have a big run in 2014, starting with a potential fight against two-division champion Mikey Garcia. Gamboa has been inactive since leaving his old promoter, Top Rank, and signing a new deal with rapper 50 Cent, who runs SMS Promotions. Gamboa partially blames his inactivity on his old promoter, Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum. The Cuban fighter claims that Arum roadblocked him attempts to get back on the network.
BoxingScene.com recently caught up with former two-division champion Juan Manuel "Juanma" Lopez who faces Daniel Ponce De Leon in a crossroads battle on March 15th that will be televised on SHO Extreme. The Caguas resident spoke on a variety of topics including a proposed showdown between Mikey Garcia and Yuriorkis Gamboa. Lopez has history with both fighters as he was stopped by Garcia last June in four rounds and for years was on a collision course to face Gamboa in a mega-fight. However, those plans were derailed when Lopez suffered two knockout losses to Orlando Salido.
While a potential clash between Miguel “Mikey” Garcia and Yuriorkis Gamboa is being discussed, there are those who wonder if the fight will be made. “If a fight were to take place, it would have to be on Garcia’s terms.” Those were the words from Robert Garcia, the older brother of Miguel Angel Garcia and who co-trains along with their father Eduardo.
The negotiations are going well for a May 17th encounter between undefeated fighters Mikey Garcia and Yuriorkis Gamboa. Top Rank and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson are negotiating the details, with the HBO televised fight taking place at The Forum in Los Angeles, California. "The negotiations are ongoing. Obviously there are things that we have to agree on, but everything is going well for May 17th. Among other things, we are negotiating the weight. I want to move up to 135-pounds, and he wants to fight at 130-pounds," Garcia said.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum says there are serious negotiations that are ongoing to finalize a lightweight battle between Mikey Garcia and Olympic gold medal winner Yuriorkis Gamboa, for May 17th at The Forum in Los Angeles. Top Rank President Todd duBoef is working out the financial details with HBO and Gamboa's promoter, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. Gamboa was previously promoted by Top Rank, but his contract was bought out by 50 Cent in 2012.