Oscar Valdez: record, next fight and profile →
Rising star Shakur Stevenson has a short-term goal of winning a junior lightweight world title next spring, a longer-term goal of unifying belts after that and then, a few years down the road, he can envision a huge welterweight showdown with pal Teofimo Lopez, the newly crowned unified lightweight world champion.
Miguel Berchelt Photos Gallery - The highly anticipated fight between World Boxing Council super featherweight champion Miguel ”Alacran” Berchelt, and undefeated mandatory challenger Oscar Valdez, will tentatively take place on November 7 in Las Vegas.
Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez remain on course for their mouthwatering showdown, although it will require having to wait a little longer than recent plans had suggested. The pair of all-action Mexican sluggers are close to finalizing terms for a junior lightweight title fight which is now penciled in for December 12, two sources with knowledge of such talks informed BoxingScene.com on Thursday. The bout will air live on ESPN, likely to take place in Las Vegas although the venue remains among the items that remain in discussion.
The super featherweight champion of the World Boxing Council ( WBC ), Miguel 'Alacran' Berchelt , expects a war in the ring in the long-awaited fight against his compatriot Oscar Valdez . Both are concentrated in their respective camps and are only wait for the promoters to agree on a concrete date for the contest, but everything seems to indicate that it would be November 7, although it could move by one or two weeks in the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
With the fight confirmed between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez for October 17, and with the possibility of meeting one of them in the future, the super featherweight champion of the World Boxing Council, Miguel 'Alacran' Berchelt , highlighted that although the Ukrainian boxer is the favorite, no one should rule out the explosiveness of the young man of Honduran descent.
Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez have been on a collision course to fight one another ever since Valdez vacated his featherweight title last year and joined the ranks of the 130-pound division.
Last month, Top Rank closed out their summer “Bubble” series in Las Vegas with Oscar Valdez stopping Jayson Velez in the 10th round of the main event. All of the series’ fights were broadcast by Top Rank broadcast partner ESPN on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout June and July along with three Saturday cards that took place in Mexico.
Oscar Valdez is still very much motivated to fulfill his dream of facing the World Boxing Council [WBC] super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt. Valdez was in action back on July 21, when he knocked out Jayson Vélez in the tenth round.
Last Tuesday at the MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas, former WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez picked up a win in the super featherweight division with a stoppage of Jayson Velez in the tenth round.
Oscar Valdez closed the show in the ring and provided a much-needed ratings boost for his promoter in the process. The July 21 edition of Top Rank Boxing on ESPN—topped by Valdez’s 10th round knockout of Puerto Rico’s Jayson Velez—averaged 399,000 viewers over the course of the three-hour telecast, according to Nielsen Media Research.