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140 hasn’t been the Same since Swift came thru N crushed the buildings 
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Haney tweet said HUGE fight... muhfukker better not be talking bout no Linares or Fortuna as a Huge Fight
Arum: Navarrete Will Stay At Featherweight; Could Fight Magdaleno For WBO Title
By Keith Idec
Published On Sat Jun 20, 2020, 10:34 AM EST
Bob Arum expects Emanuel Navarrete to remain at featherweight after Saturday night.
Mexico’s Navarrete has not given up his WBO junior featherweight title, but his promoter anticipates him vacating that championship because it has become increasingly difficult for Navarrete to make the 122-pound limit. The 25-year-old Navarrete (31-1, 27 KOs) is heavily favored to beat Mexican journeymen Uriel Lopez (13-13-1, 6 KOs) in the main event of a five-fight show ESPN will televise live from Mexico City on Saturday night.
With a limited budget for an event ESPN will air from TV Azteca studios, Navarrete has taken a tune-up fight against an overmatched opponent just to stay busy. Arum envisions Navarrete’s second featherweight bout this year to be much more meaningful, perhaps a fight for the WBO featherweight title.
“I think that if Shakur decides to campaign as a 130-pounder,” Arum told BoxingScene.com, “that Navarrete and somebody else, maybe Magdaleno, could fight for the vacant 126-pound title in the WBO. Navarette was having some difficulty making 122, so it would make it easier having him fight at 126.”
Shakur Stevenson (14-0, 8 KOs), the WBO featherweight champion, has repeatedly expressed his intention to remain in the junior lightweight division if he can’t secure a featherweight title unification fight with IBF champion Josh Warrington (30-0, 7 KOs). With Warrington seemingly headed for another title unification match against China’s Can Xu (18-2, 3 KOs), Stevenson is expected to give up his 126-pound crown to pursue a 130-pound title shot.
The 22-year-old Stevenson, a 2016 Olympic silver medalist from Newark, New Jersey, won his 130-pound debut by sixth-round knockout June 9, when he stopped Puerto Rico’s Felix Caraballo (13-2-2, 9 KOs) with a body shot at MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas.
Navarrete could quickly be afforded a shot at the WBO’s featherweight title because he wouldn’t have lost the WBO junior featherweight title in the ring before deciding to move up.
Michael Conlan (13-0, 7 KOs) is the WBO’s number one featherweight contender, but he has yet to be declared the mandatory challenger for Stevenson’s title. Ruben Villa (18-0, 5 KOs), a southpaw from Salinas, California, is ranked number two by the WBO in its 126-pound rankings, though, and would want a shot at that sanctioning organization’s featherweight title.
Las Vegas’ Magdaleno (28-1, 18 KOs) is the WBO’s fourth-ranked featherweight contender, one spot below England’s Ryan Walsh (26-2-2, 12 KOs).
Navarrete, meanwhile, is concentrating momentarily on beating the 25-year-old Lopez, who has lost three straight fights. Their apparent mismatch will headline an ESPN broadcast scheduled to start at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT.
“He’s a terrific kid,” Arum said of Navarrete. “I’ve had a lot of fun with him. After his fights, I’d always shout at him, ‘Stay in shape. You fight two weeks from now.’ That’s how fighters used to be.”
Andrew Cancio vs. Cesar Alan Valenzuela - July 16, Top Rank Card in Las Vegas
By Dan Rafael
Published On Sat Jun 20, 2020, 09:34 AM EST
Former junior lightweight world titlist Andrew Cancio has a new opponent for his July 16 return to the ring for the first time since losing his belt to Rene Alvarado in November.
Cancio will take on Cesar Alan Valenzuela in a 10-round bout at a contract weight of 133 pounds, a source with knowledge of the agreement, which is not yet signed, told BoxingScene.com on Friday.
The fight is slated to be on the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card that will be headlined by the light heavyweight world title elimination bout between former titlist Eleider “Storm” Alvarez and former world title challenger Joe Smith Jr. inside the Grand Ballroom at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Top Rank is running its twice-weekly series this summer without spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The fight will be Cancio’s first since signing with Top Rank in January. After the seventh-round knockout loss to Alvarado, Golden Boy Promotions released Cancio, who not only changed promoters but also trainers as he is now working with Joe Goossen. He went with Goossen after parting ways with Joseph “Hoss” Janik.
Cancio was initially slated to fight Manuel Rey Rojas (18-4, 5 KOs), 27, of Dallas, whose six-fight winning streak ended when he dropped a decision to Felix Verdejo in a lightweight bout in January, at 131 pounds. However, Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Bob Bennett declined to approve Rojas as Cancio’s opponent, which forced Top Rank to find a new foe.
So, now Cancio (21-5-2, 16 KOs), 31, a Blythe, California, native, is due to me meet Valenzuela (15-6-1, 5 KOs), 30, of Phoenix, who is coming off an eight-round decision win against Christian “Chimpa” Gonzalez last June 13 in Hollywood, California, in a fight that marked Valenzuela’s first bout in 19 months.
Valenzuela’s victory snapped a two-fight losing streak in 2017. He had been knocked out by rising star Ryan Garcia in the second round after dropping an eight-round split decision to Cesar Morales.
Cancio holds down a day job as a line worker for a Southern Area gas company and normally he takes off only one week – the week of the fight – before his bout. But he recently told BoxingScene that he planned to take off two weeks to make sure he is full prepared and rested for his return bout.
“It’s my debut with Top Rank and I’m coming off a defeat with Rene Alvarado, so I don’t want to take any chances,” Cancio said. “I want to make sure I’m fresh in there. I figured two weeks before the fight I’ll take it off and I will have time to relax and just focus on the fight.”
Cancio also said when he was first offered a bout in July he was unsure he wanted to fight without any spectators in attendance, although he eventually changed his mind.
“My manager (Ray Chaparro) told me, ‘You’re not getting any younger, you want to get back to being a world champion so we got to get ourselves in that position where when the time does come to fight for a title again the fight fans are back,” Cancio said.
“Hopefully, this fight will be one step closer to getting a world title shot. I don’t know how long it’s going to be without fans being allowed in, so I told manager he was right. At first I told him, ‘Hell, no, I’m not doing it without fans because it takes away from the sport.’ But the more and more you see how long it’s going to be where there’s no fans, I don’t have that time to wait to fight. I need to get the taste of this loss out of my mouth anyway and I have so much more to prove.
“So I do have mixed feelings about fighting with no crowd, but this time around I got to think about myself and my family. I win this fight, I will be one step closer to where I want to be and it’s going to be a lot of exposure on ESPN. I’m doing my part in the gym. I’m here getting myself my ready so we can rock ‘n roll for July 16.”
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
that whole brawl for all was painful to watch
reservoirdogs
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Agree to disagree, that’s huge to him at this stage of career, maybe a bit if a hyperbole but I’ve seen worseHaney tweet said HUGE fight... muhfukker better not be talking bout no Linares or Fortuna as a Huge Fight
reservoirdogs
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Yea Idk why, it was very close and both are high level. They could even kick some asses at 147
Haney tweet said HUGE fight... muhfukker better not be talking bout no Linares or Fortuna as a Huge Fight
Facts
Mr. Hot and Cold Chin and Mr. Up and Down performances should definitely not be considered as huge fights.
Now I won't complain about Easter n Campbell. They might be considered huge fights for someone on Haney's level in the game and I wouldn't mind.
ChocolateGiddyUp
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Easter is the one I’m hoping for... that’s a big step up N Easter coming off beating Granados
Plus the atmosphere at the fight... Floyd will be there ... AB with Easter... Tank with AB
ChocolateGiddyUp
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Mikka Shonena
Because they didn't watch Taylor going into the fight and had no idea how good he was and is.
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Taylor would definitely beat the piss outta broner
Easily, but there would still be coli heads picking Broner because he uses a bullshyt shoulder roll and went life and death with a recycled "name" in Adrian Granados.