Junior middleweight contender Pawel Wolak (29-1, 19 KOs), coming off a dominant and unexpected sixth-round knockout of former titleholder Yuri Foreman on March 12, could return to headline an ESPN2 “Friday Night Fights” card in July against Delvin Rodriguez (25-5-2, 14 KOs).
Rumor is that current IBF lightweight world champion Miguel Vazquez may face Marco Antonio Barrera as part of the undercard for Zbik-Chavez Jr on June 4 in Los Angeles. Also Rumor is that Rafael Marquez will take on Mike Oliver on the same card as well.
Middleweight titlist Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KOs) will defend his belt against England’s Matthew Macklin (28-2, 19 KOs) on June 25 in Cologne, Germany.
Giovani Segura (27-1-1, 23 KOs), who retained the junior flyweight title by knocking out Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon in the third round of a dominant performance in their April 2 rematch, has vacated his 108-pound titles and is making the official move up to flyweight and will fight on May 28 in Mexico against an opponent to be determined.
Newly crowned featherweight titleholder Orlando Salido of Mexico, who stopped Juan Manuel Lopez in the eighth round to claim a belt last Saturday in Puerto Rico, will make his first defense in Mexico in July.
Manuel Quezada (29-6, 18 KOs) of Waso, California will step back into the ring on Saturday May 14th against Bowie Tupou (20-1, 15 KOs) at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California on the undercard of Andre ‘Ward vs Arthur Abraham.