Didn't even know they were scheduled, that would have been a good step up for FloresAndrew Cancio Injured, Withdraws From February 20 Fight Against Gabriel Flores Jr.
By Keith Idec
Published On Mon Jan 11, 2021, 02:15 PM EST
Gabriel Flores Jr. will have to find another opponent against whom he can take a step up in competition.
BoxingScene.com has learned that Andrew Cancio has suffered a back injury and has withdrawn from their 10-round junior lightweight fight. The 20-year-old Flores (19-0, 6 KOs), a developing 130-pound prospect from Stockton, California, and the 32-year-old Cancio (21-5-2, 16 KOs), a former WBA 130-pound champion from Ventura, California, were supposed to fight February 20 as part of the Miguel Berchelt-Oscar Valdez undercard.
ESPN was set to televise the Flores-Cancio clash as the co-feature of a broadcast that’ll be headlined by Berchelt (38-1, 34 KOs) and Valdez (28-0, 22 KOs) in a 12-round fight for Berchelt’s WBC super featherweight title. Both bouts were officially announced Wednesday.
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Flores is expected to remain on the card, in a televised fight against an opponent to be determined.
Cancio’s injury has further delayed his debut since signing a promotional contract with Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. last January.
His first fight with Top Rank was scheduled for last April 25. Cancio was set to battle Tyler McCreary (16-1-1, 7 KOs) in a 10-rounder on the Naoya Inoue-John Riel Casimero undercard at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
That entire show was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cancio’s Top Rank debut was rescheduled for July 16, but the Nevada State Athletic Commission wouldn’t approve multiple opponents proposed for Cancio to fight that night. Less than two months later, Cancio’s proposed fight against Saul Rodriguez (24-1-1, 18 KOs), which was tentatively set for September 12, fell apart over money.
Cancio, who works a full-time job operating a jackhammer for Southern California Gas Company, has not fought since Nicaragua’s Rene Alvarado (32-9, 21 KOs) upset him to win the WBA “super” 130-pound championship in November 2019. That one-sided bout was stopped after the seventh round.
Nine months earlier, Cancio upset Puerto Rico’s Alberto Machado by fourth-round knockout to win the WBA’s “super” title in the junior lightweight division. Cancio also knocked out Machado (22-2, 18 KOs) in the third round of their rematch in June 2019.
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John Jackson May Finally Head To Trial on Rape Charge
Former 2008 Olympian John Jackson, 31-years-old, has spent nearly two years in a Puerto Rican jail on charges of child pornography and rape.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to 11 criminal charges - including first-degree rape, five counts of aggravated second-degree rape, two counts of production of child pornography and three counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Jackson's trial date has been delayed. It was recently pushed back to February 8th.
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Molloy set a date of February 2 for the pre-trial conference.
Back in February of 2019, Jackson was arrested by V.I. Police after the father of a 15-year-old girl said Jackson gave his daughter alcohol and marijuana brownies and then raped her.
He was initially released on bond. Jackson was later arrested after investigators found a video he allegedly made of himself having sex with the victim - leading to a charge of federal child pornography.
Since then, Jackson has been charged with assaulting two other girls, who came forward with claims of their own.
John Jackson May Finally Head To Trial on Rape Charge
Had no idea he was caught up in this shyt. Dude is really fukked up in the head
Former 2008 Olympian John Jackson, 31-years-old, has spent nearly two years in a Puerto Rican jail on charges of child pornography and rape.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to 11 criminal charges - including first-degree rape, five counts of aggravated second-degree rape, two counts of production of child pornography and three counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Jackson's trial date has been delayed. It was recently pushed back to February 8th.
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Molloy set a date of February 2 for the pre-trial conference.
Back in February of 2019, Jackson was arrested by V.I. Police after the father of a 15-year-old girl said Jackson gave his daughter alcohol and marijuana brownies and then raped her.
He was initially released on bond. Jackson was later arrested after investigators found a video he allegedly made of himself having sex with the victim - leading to a charge of federal child pornography.
Since then, Jackson has been charged with assaulting two other girls, who came forward with claims of their own.
John Jackson May Finally Head To Trial on Rape Charge
Had no idea he was caught up in this shyt. Dude is really fukked up in the head
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RIP MR. SMOKE
I'm all in for the fukkery
them brutal knockouts fukked him up..or fukked him up some more..dude was a whole demon outchea..disgracing the GOAT Hawk like thisJohn Jackson May Finally Head To Trial on Rape Charge
Former 2008 Olympian John Jackson, 31-years-old, has spent nearly two years in a Puerto Rican jail on charges of child pornography and rape.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to 11 criminal charges - including first-degree rape, five counts of aggravated second-degree rape, two counts of production of child pornography and three counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Jackson's trial date has been delayed. It was recently pushed back to February 8th.
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Molloy set a date of February 2 for the pre-trial conference.
Back in February of 2019, Jackson was arrested by V.I. Police after the father of a 15-year-old girl said Jackson gave his daughter alcohol and marijuana brownies and then raped her.
He was initially released on bond. Jackson was later arrested after investigators found a video he allegedly made of himself having sex with the victim - leading to a charge of federal child pornography.
Since then, Jackson has been charged with assaulting two other girls, who came forward with claims of their own.
John Jackson May Finally Head To Trial on Rape Charge
Had no idea he was caught up in this shyt. Dude is really fukked up in the head
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Make the fukking fight Teo. Just do it