Weights from Minnesota

By Jesse Kelley

Weights from Hinckley, MN
Cerresso Fort 165 vs. Dennis Sharpe 163
RJ Laase 144.5 vs. James Wayka 143
Aaron Green 278 vs. Raymond Ochieng 254
Van Goodman 252 vs. Ray Edwards 255
Winston Anderson 137.5 vs. Branden Cluever 140
David Laque 145 vs. Kurtis Erhorn 145
Venue: Grand Casino in Hinckley, MN
Promoter: RDS Boxing

Weights from Duluth, MN
Al Sands 198 vs. Chris Thomas 196
Brad Herroff 124 vs Bobby Connors (Will weigh in later tonight)
Venue: Grandma’s Sports Garden
Promoter: Jungle Boy Promotions

Boxing Buzz

Derek Chisora, who spat water at Wladimir Klitschko and brawled with David Haye at a press conference, says he has no regrets over his actions last year. More

Former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes has returned home following two days in the hospital for high blood sugar. More

A movement to ban headgear in amateur boxing has begun by the International Boxing Association (AIBA). More

Former champ Rafael Marquez has pulled out of a May 4 fight against Leo Santa Cruz due to gallstone surgery.

Periban-Miller new main event; no TV for Linares

With the pull-out of Pablo Cesar Cano against Manny Perez (as reported yesterday), Saturday’s new FOX Deportes main event will be a clash for the vacant NABF super middleweight belt between unbeaten Marco Antonio Periban (19-0, 12 KOs) and Samuel Miller (25-6, 22 KOs) at the Grand Oasis Resort in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Strangely, an undercard bout between former two-division world champion Jorge “El Nino De Oro” Linares and Oxnard’s “Dangerous” David Rodela (16-7-3, 7 KOs) didn’t get bumped up to the co-feature, and instead we’ll get a ten-round jr featherweight bout between recent world title challenger Alberto Guevara (16-1, 6 KOs) and late sub Jose Alfredo Tirado (18-10, 11 KOs), who is stepping in to replace Jesus Jimenez after Jimenez was too far off weight.

In other non-televised undercard action, the nephew of former world champion Genaro “Chicanito” Hernandez, Julian “El Camaron” Ramirez (7-0, 5 KOs) faces Aaron Olivares (6-3, 2 KOs), and 2012 United States Olympian Joseph “Jo Jo” Diaz Jr. (2-0, 1 KO) will face Alberto Cupido (7-7-2, 6 KO’s) in a six-round junior featherweight match-up.

Weights from Perth Australia

By Brett Bonetti

Jeremy Allan 159.6 vs Luke Sharp 159.0
(WA State middleweight title)
Jeremy Van Diemen 172.6 vs Xavier Lucas 174.2
Matt Garlett 129.9 vs Weng Heya 129.9
Willie Kickett 142.6 vs Manopnoi Singmanasak 139.6
John Squillace 201.9 vs Shaun Collins 201.3
Jamie Weetch 159.4 vs Sam Hogan 157.6
Brandon Ogilvie 141.1 vs Nuengiam Kiatsonsang 138.7
Andrew Green 175.9 vs Kashif Mumtaz 178.8
Mike Reid 146.2 vs Sahlan Coral 146.4

Tickets to Thunderdome are available at http://metrocity.oztix.com.au/?Event=33606

Weights from Vancouver

By Lev Jackson

Adam Trupish 157 vs. Dashon Johnson 160
Jamie Walton 202 vs. Mariusz Zastawny 209
Alisah McPhee 124 vs. Wendy Roy 125

Salinas back in action

By Robert Coster

Rising Cuban featherweight IBF #10 Yoandris Salinas (20-0-1, 13 KOs) will be stepping into the ring for the first time this year when he meets up with Dominican Luis Hinojosa (22-7, 14 KOs) on March 23rd in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The bout will be the 10 round main event of the night and Salinas is expected to be tested by Hinojosa, a boxer who hasn’t lost a fight in 5 years and is currently on a roll of 21 straight victories.

Yoandris, a former Cuban amateur star, had this to say about his upcoming rival: “I’ve heard that Hinojosa is a tough customer plus he will have the crowd in his corner. No problem–I welcome a good fight and I love to beat a guy in his own backyard.”

On the same card, fellow Cuban Inocente Fiz (15-0, 10 KOs) will cross gloves with veteran Jose Vidal Soto (24-13, 14 KOs) in the Jr middleweight division while heavyweight prospect Yasmany Consuegra (12-0) will go against a local opponent. Also on the card promoted by Domini Boxing (Papin Lantigua) will be four Puerto Rican boxers brought over from the neighboring island by Miguel Cotto Promotions.

Weights From Colorado

By Chris Morris/Rocky Mountain Boxing

Hugo Arceo 239 vs. George Ashauer 250
Elan Simon 127 vs. Martin Quezada 127.4
Rudy ‘Phatsoe’ Zapata 239 vs. Juan Ramos 213
Nick Bushman 145 vs. Antonio Diaz 146
Raquel Pennington 135.4 vs. DJ Morrison 132.8
Daniel Calzada 145 vs. Terry Butterbaugh 146

Venue: Denver Athletic Club
Promoter: Poor Boys Pro Boxing
Time: First Bell at 7:30/Tickets: Sold Out
Matchmaker: Jim ‘Smitty’ Smith

Results from Tijuana

By Felipe Leon
Photos: Renzo Novara

Celebrating his thirtieth year as a promoter and sixtieth of life, Guillermo Mayen along with his crew of Mayen Promotions returned to the Las Pulgas nightclub for his second show of the year and was joined by a sold out crowd of slightly over one thousand Tijuana, Mexico, boxing fans last night. In typical Tijuana fashion, the night was shock full of local cross border talent in twelve bouts. In the main event, super bantamweight Baja California state champion Edivaldo “Indio” Ortega (16-0-1, 8KOs) of Tijuana, climbed four pounds north and survived a knockdown to eventually stop via a controversial TKO Mexicali, Mexico’s Jose Guadalupe “Lupillo” Tapia (7-7, 3KOs) of Mexicali, Mexico, in a scheduled ten rounder. (more…)

Arreola-Stiverne Ticket Alert

Tickets for the rescheduled April 27 WBC heavyweight eliminator between Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola (35-2, 30 KOs) and Bermane Stiverne (22-1-1, 20 KOs) at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California, will be priced at $200, $100, $50 and $25, plus fees, and will go on sale this Saturday, March 16 at the Citizens Business Bank Arena Box-Office (open Monday-Saturday) or online at AXS.com or call AXS at 888-929-7849. The winner guaranteed to immediately fight for the world championship.

Weights from Kissimmee, Florida

Photos: All Star Boxing

Orlando Cruz 126.5 vs. Aalan Martinez 126
(WBO Latin featherweight title)
Alexei Collado 136 vs. Juan Jose Beltran 129
Leonardo Sanchez 124.8 vs. Carlos Lacayo 126.4
Jordan Wiesfeld 146.2 vs. Rikardo Smith 145.6
Phillip Penson 173.4 vs. Adrian Redmond 169.8
Angel Albelo 128.4 vs. Adrian Perez 129.4
Craig Duncan 166.2 vs. John Cochcroft 163
Luis Olivares 140.6 vs. Victor Vega 141.2

Venue: Kissimmee Civic Center Kissimmee, Florida
Promoter: All Star Boxing, Inc., “The New Generation” & Felix “Tuto” Zabala, Jr.
TV: Telemundo Main Event Live @ 11:35 PM (ET)
Time: Doors Open @ 7:30 PM/First Fight 8:00 PM
Matchmaker: Ruben De Jesus
Tickets: 407-935-1412

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Viva Mexico media day

Photos: Chris Farina/Top Rank

Undefeated Mexican fighters Jessie Vargas, Andy Ruiz, Oscar Valdez and Jessie Magdaleno pose during media day in Los Angeles for their upcoming feature fights on the undercard of the Timothy “The Desert Storm” Bradley Jr. vs Ruslan Provodnikov. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Banner Promotions, Tecate, Bradley-Provodnikov will take place Saturday at The Home Depot Center in Carson,Calif. and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing.

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Panama world title twinbill Saturday

By Gabriel F. Cordero

This Saturday in Panama City, former two-division world champion Roberto “La Araña” Vasquez (32-5-1, 22 KOs) and Filipino John Mark Apolinario (17-2-2, 4 KOs) will dispute the vacant WBA interim bantamweight world title in a rematch.

“I’m ready to win this fight,” said Apolinario. “The first fight I had slight advantage. This time I hope to win clearly. I’m in good conditions. We’re on another continent but my boxing and confidence will give me the victory.”

Vazquez stated, “In the ring I’m better than Apolinario. I have a lot of experience and I’ve faced the best. This time there’s a lot to gain and we are in my country. I’m ready for big fights and I’m one of the best in this division.”

On the same night IBF light flyweight world champion John Riel Casimero (17-2, 10 KOs) will defend his crown against mandatory challenger Luis Rios (18-1-1, 13 KOs). (more…)

Weights from Twin River

Peter Manfredo Jr. 168.5 vs. Walter Wright 170
Joe Gardner 167 vs. Reynaldo Rodriguez 167
Thomas Falowo 162 vs. Julio Garcia 170
Emmanuel Medina 164 vs. Benny Costantino 164
Paul Gonsalves 173.5 vs. Kevin Cobbs 173.5
Patryk Szymanski 147.5 vs. Antonio Chaves Fernandes 147.5
Vanessa Greco 115.5 vs. Noemi Bosques 113.5

Venue: Twin River Casino, Lincoln, R.I.
Promoter: Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports

Tyson Fury-Steve Cunningham heats up

By Karl Freitag

Heavyweights Tyson Fury and Steve Cunningham appeared Thursday at a press conference at Jack Demsey’s Restaurant in New York City to promote their scheduled twelve-round clash on April 20th at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City is an official IBF heavyweight voluntary eliminator for the #2 position.

Tyson Fury: This is a heavyweight vs. a light heavyweight. No disrespect to Steve, because he’s probably the best opponent I’ve ever faced, a former world champion and I’ve never faced a world champion before. But, I’m a man on a mission and I mean business…I’m gonna retire you Steve. You lost your last fight to Tomasz Adamek, but let’s face it, Tomasz Adamek ain’t Tyson Fury. You’re both light heavyweights. You’re both small guys compared to me. I think this is a ‘three-hit’ fight. I hit him, he hits the floor, Tyson Fury hits New York….I’m just wondering if the bottom of Steve’s boots have been sponsored, because as there’s gonna be a lot of people watching around the world, I’d like to out my Twitter account on the bottom of them so I can get more fans on Twitter. And I was wondering how much it would cost me to sponsor if they haven’t haven’t already been.

Steve Cunningham: Here’s what we have here. I grew up in Philadelphia right? I grew up right at the cusp of kids, from fist fighting to guns. I was a streetfighter. That’s what I did. I enjoyed fighting way before I stepped in the gym. I started boxing at 19. All of this happened when I was 13, 14. Back then there’s a code and it still runs through the streets today, and that’s the guys who talk a lot, they’re chumps. You can talk all this sponsor shit, Twitter, that ain’t gonna help you on April 20th. You can talk all that you want. The only reason this dude is winning fights is because he’s big. Shrink him down to 6’2, 6’3, 6’4, he’s garbage.

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Boxing Buzz

According to matchmaker Ron Katz, with ‏Gabe Rosado deciding to take J’Leon Love instead of Delvin Rodriguez, he’s pitching Freddy Hernandez-Rodriguez for ESPN.

Lester Bedford, who has been involved with nearly every major boxing event in Texas over the last few decades, has announced the signing of WBA #3 world ranked jr. middleweight Roberto “La Amenaza” Garcia (31-3, 21 KOs). “It will be my pleasure to represent him in his quest to become a world champion,” said Bedford.

Bedford also said undefeated Adam Lopez (5-0) getting back into action on March 23 in San Antonio and April 13 in Corpus Christi.

Woodhouse confronts troll on talkshow

Shamed Twitter troll makes humbling apology on live TV to former British lightweight champion Curtis Woodhouse. The troll cyber-bullied Woodhouse for months prompting the fighter to track him down using social media in a way that has made Woodhouse (@woodhousecurtis) a worldwide internet legend.

Sinyabi and Sonjica clash for the third time

By Ron Jackson

Thabo Sonjica will be having his third crack at winning the South African junior featherweight title against the same man when he faces champion Macbute Sinyabi at the Orient Theatre in East London on Sunday afternoon.

Sonjica from Duncan Village who has a record of 16-2 with 12 wins inside the distance since making his professional debut in June 2007 was stopped at 2 minutes 58 seconds into the first round in his first fight with Sinyabi in April 2011 and seven months later was once again stopped inside this distance, but this time he managed to go five rounds. (more…)

Bradley sighting at Clipper game

Photos: Chris Farina/Top Rank

Undefeated WBO World Welterweight champion Timothy “The Desert Storm” Bradley Jr. makes a special guest appearance with his family: (L-R) wife Monica, 8-yr old daughter Alaysia and 13-yr old son Robert at the Los Angeles Clippers-Memphis Grizzlies game at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night.

Bradley is preparing for his upcoming World Welterweight Championship against top-rated contender Ruslan Provodnikov of Russia. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Banner Promotions, Tecate, Bradley-Provodnikov will take place, Saturday, March 16 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing. (more…)

One on One: Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero

By Jerry Hoffman

The Gilroy southpaw has been through more than his share of challenges during his soon to be 30 years in the garlic capital of the world. Dealing with his wife Casey’s leukemia, a nasty separation from his previous promoter Dan Goossen, and failure to get fights he was in line for, have hardened the soft-spoken dedicated Christian. A man of deep faith, Robert Guerrero is about to realize his dream in the squared circle. His destiny and legacy will be determined May 4th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas when he collides with undefeated Floyd “Money” Mayweather. Guerrero believes he will shock the boxing world by upsetting the 43-0 brash pay per view king. (more…)

Full Report: Bradley-Provodnikov Presser

By Miguel Maravilla
Photos: Chris Farina/Top Rank

Only three days to go until the welterweight showdown between WBO welterweight champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley Jr. (29-0, 12 KOs) of Palm Springs, California and Russia’s Ruslan Provodnikov (22-1, 15 KOs). The two fighters met Wednesday afternoon for the final press conference at the Conga Room at LA Live in Downtown Los Angeles. They will square off Saturday night at the Home Depot Center.

“Ruslan exemplifies what boxing is about Tim Bradley is pound for pound an elite fighter. This is what makes the fight,” Top Rank President Todd duBoef said opening the festivities. (more…)

Lucas-Van Dieman Heats Up

By Brett Bonetti

MMA star Xavier “X Man” Lucas and his opponent for Dragonfire Promotions Thunderdome, Jeremy Van Diemen (4-0, 3 KO’s) have had a war of words ahead of their co-main event tomorrow night at Metro City in Perth, Australia. Lucas sent a video message to Van Dieman, to which Van Dieman responded in kind. (more…)