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WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa of Miami arrives in Las Vegas Sunday night for his upcoming world title fight against IBF featherweight champion Orlando Salido on Top Rank’s ‘Battle of the Champions’, Sept. 11 at the Palms Resort Casino in Las Vegas. Top Rank is promoting in association with Arena Box and Zanfer Promotions. Gamboa vs. Salido will be televised on HBO.

Felix Sturm takes unanimous

WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (34-2-1, 14 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Giovanni Lorenzo (29-3, 21 KOs) on Saturday night at the Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Germany. It took Sturm two rounds to shake off the ring rust from his 14 month layoff, but after getting untracked in round three Sturm dictated the fight with his jab. Lorenzo came on strong down the stretch, but it was too little too late as Sturm prevailed 117-111, 117-111, 118-111.

Solo Boxeo in San Diego

Telefutura returns to America’s Finest City, San Diego, CA, with their weekly “Solo Boxeo Tecate” series on Friday night when Don Chargin Promotions and Jorge Marron Productions in association with Golden Boy Promotions and Bobby D. Presents feature undefeated super bantamweight California State champion Christopher Martin (19-0-2, 5KOs) as he takes on hard hitting veteran Jose Luis “Tapitas” Araiza (29-2, 20KOs) in the eight round main event. The seven-bout fight card will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel located in Kearny Mesa, a mid-town suburb of San Diego.

Jorge Arce vs Lorenzo Parra

Rumor is world champion Jorge “Travieso” Arce will fight Lorenzo Parra in a WBO bantamweight title eliminator on September 18 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Arce recently gave up the WBO interim super flyweight belt and was installed at WBO #1 in the bantamweight division.

Tickets for Abraham-Froch

Tickets for the hotly-anticipated Super Six World Boxing Classic showdown between King Arthur Abraham and Carl “The Cobra” Froch, who will battle it out at the famous Chapiteau de Fontvieille in Monaco on October 2, are on sale. They can be purchased at www.ticketcorner.ch

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  2. hi edgar, love this site keep up the good work, will u be at wbhf banquet this year, will anyone be there ? will it happen ??????????????????????????

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