Representatives of Roman Golovashchenko of Ukraine and Kevin Lerena of South Africa agreed to meet on April 27 in Baku, Azerbaijan. At the stake of the fight will be the title of IBO champion, owned by Lerena. In his last fight, Lerena got a unanimous decision over another Ukrainian Dmytro Kucher.
Carl Moretti, vice president of Top Rank, and Eddie Hearn, head of the promotional company Matchroom Boxing, met in California to discuss further fights of British lightweight Luke Campbell in the United States. Moretti and Hearn met in one of the Manhattan Beach hotels, where they came for the fight of Oscar Valdez vs Scott Quigg in Carson.
Former world champion in two weight categories Timothy Bradley commented on the situation around the positive doping test of Saul Alvarez. According to Bradley, for such a violation Canelo should be disqualified from the fight with Gennady Golovkin.
WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko confirmed that his next fight is likely to be in lightweights against WBA champion Jorge Linares.
According to the claims of organizers, WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (24-0, 19 KOs) lost his tooth and earned a jaw fracture around in the fifth round of his fight against the former world champion in the category below Scott Quigg (34-2-2, 25 KOs), which was on March 10 in Carson, California. After the fight Valdez was taken to one of the local hospitals for further examination.
In the main event of the evening in Carson, California, WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (24-0, 19 KOs) scored a difficult unanimous decision over the former super bantamweight champion Scott Quigg (34-2-2, 25 KOs), and defended his title. The scores were: 117-111, 117-111, 118-110. Valdes was fighting with a serious bleeding from his mouth. Here's the CompuBox statistics of the fight:
In the main event of the evening in San Antonio, Texas, undefeated world champion Mikey Garcia (38-0, 30 KOs) got a unanimous decision over Sergey Lipinets (13-1, 10 KOs), took away his IBF super lightweight title and became the world champion in four different weight categories. The scores were: 116-111, 117-110, 117-110. In the seventh round Lipinets was down from the left hook to the head.
On the undercard of the boxing evening in San Antonio, Texas, Kirill Relikh (22-2, 19 KOs) got a unanimous decision over the world champion in two weight categories Rances Barthelemy (26-1, 13 KOs), and took revenge for a controversial defeat last May. Based on the result of the fight, Relikh tried on a vacant WBA super lightweight title. The scores were: 117-110, 118-109, 118-109. In the seventh round, Barthelemy was deducted by one point for the low blow.
A live broadcast of the boxing evening from San Antonio, Texas, in the main event of which undefeated world champion in three different weight categories Mikey Garcia will try to get the title in the fourth weight class in a fight against IBF super lightweight champion Sergey Lipinets.
A live broadcast of the boxing evening from Carson, California, in the main event of which world featherweight champion Oscar Valdez will meet former world champion in the category below Scott Quigg. Since Quigg could not make weight the day before, the title at stake will only be for Valdez only.
