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Former WBC 115-pound champion Carlos Cuadras of Mexico has been temporarily suspended by the WBC under its anti-doping program. Cuadras [known to have back acne during his fights] has not tested positive for any anti-doping test before or after his recent loss to McWilliams Arroyo. According to the WBC, "this issue refers to the alleged consumption of recreational substances. During the next few days, Carlos will have a meeting with the WBC as part of the investigation."

Press Release: San Antonio TV, an ABC affiliate in San Antonio, TX, which will air a boxing show taking place at the Mi Mercado Event Center in San Antonio, TX on April 28th. In the six-round main event, James Cantu (10-0, 4 KOs) and Jairo Castaneda (9-0, 3 KOs), will battle for welterweight supremacy. In the six-round co-feature, local standout, Daniel "Da Beast" Baiz (11-1, 5 KOs) will square off against Isai Mireles (8-8, 6 KOs).

Press Release: Tommy Oosthuizen’s ongoing legal battles have forced Golden Gloves to finally pull him from his proposed June 23rd fight against Thabiso Mchunu. Despite having wanted to help “Tommy Gun” get back on his feet, promoter Rodney Berman said that there were too many obstacles, not least a court date set down for next week. Berman has subsequently signed Ricards Bolotniks of Latvia to meet Mchunu, a crossroads fight for the South African.  Bolotniks (11-4-1) comes with good form. He recently scored a stoppage win over Alejandro Emilio Valori and before that lost a split decision to 24-1 Micki Nielsen.

For all intents and purposes the eagerly anticipated rematch between world middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin and Sauel "Canelo" Alvarez, the biggest fight of 2018 thus far, was dead in the water once Alvarez tested positive for clenbuterol. Don't get me wrong, Canelo is to blame for his positive result. Eating meat in Mexico while you're undergoing random drug testing makes Canelo and his trainers look as dumb as a bag of rocks. But it was Ron DiNicola, Golovkin's attorney, who made sure of there was no saving the fight. When Alvarez's positive test results were made public on March 5th, Golden Boy Promotions (likely Eric Gomez) and Tom Loeffler, managing director of GGG Promotions, agreed to allow the Nevada State Athletic Commission to conduct its investigation. Clearly both promoters wanted to save the show, and were willing to get creative in order to do so. Golden Boy made it clear that Canelo was willing to subject himself to daily testing to ensure that he was clean entering the ring as they were certain that Canelo's positive test was due to contaminated meat. It wasn't until March 23rd that Canelo was temporarily suspended by the Commission before any ruling was made. This happened because DiNicola sent what has been described to us as a very aggressive letter to Commissioner Bob Bennett. DiNicola's letter backed the NSAC into a corner and forced it to follow its rules to the letter of the law, superfight be damned. "That letter killed the fight and now they've got what they wanted," said a source close to the situation.

Golovkin was looking for a replacement fight after PED concerns surrounding Saul "Canelo" Alvarez caused Alvarez to withdraw from fighting Golovkin in a Las Vegas pay-per-view show on the same date. The fight could cost Golovkin his IBF belt because a mandatory defense is arguably due (against Sergiy Derevyanchenko) but he'll remain the true world champion and also has the WBC and WBA championships. --Scott Shaffer

Ivan Montiel: Let's talk about your upcoming fight on May 4th against  Ryan Garcia (14-0 with 13 KOs) taking place at The Stub Hub Centre in Carson, California.  Tell us what do you know about this kid? "I have seen him fight a few times before. He’s popular, a top prospect of 2017. He’s focused and wants to become a world champion."

Press Release: On Saturday, May 26, the fast-tracking of the "Argentinean Lomachenko," two-time Olympian Alberto "Impacto" Melian will continue in Buenos Aires, when he takes on his countryman Sergio Sosa (10-0, 3 KOs) in a super bantamweight bout presented by Sampson Boxing. [Melian is listed at 2-0 but is 14-3 including AIBA's World Series of Boxing professional bouts]. The co-feature matches Uruguay's Caril "El Ratón" Herrera (39-2, 23 KOs) against Argentina's Roman "220 Volts" Reynoso (20-2-2, 9 KOs). Also appearing on the card will be former Olympian Alberto "Beto" Palmetta (7-1, 3 KOs) in an eight-round welterweight bout against fellow Argentinean Nahuel "El Perfecto" Galessi (12-4-1, 7 KOs). 

Press Release: This Saturday, super flyweight Dylan "The Real Dyl" Price (5-0, 5 KOs) of Sicklerville, New Jersey takes part in his first scheduled six-round bout when he battles Edson Eduardo Neri (2-2, 1 KO) of Mexico City at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The bout will be part of a big night of boxing that is headlined by a bout of former  champions, Adrien Broner and Jessie Vargas. The 19 year-old Price has been training very hard, and is looking forward to his next step in his career.  

Press Release: England's Sean "Masher" Dodd (15-2-1) says he’s finally getting the respect he deserves as he defends his Commonwealth lightweight title against Tommy Coyle (23-4) at Liverpool's Echo Arena on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports. Dodd puts his title on the line for the second time having seen off Liverpool rival Tom Stalker in September. 

Congrats on a great fight and a great performance in the fight of the year thus far. Unfortunately the decision didn't go your way, can you give us your thoughts on the fight now that you've had a few days to digest what happened? First off, I thought it was a great fight for the fans. As everyone saw I did something nobody expected me to do, I stayed toe to toe with this guy and I beat the bigger guy at his own game. It was a great fight, it was a close fight the guy is a big, strong guy, but going into that last round I thought I was up three, four points. Now looking back at the cards there's a reason my team didn't want Dave Moretti on the judging table because he was controversial in our fight with Canelo and Vegas allowed him to do another one of my fights which I couldn't understand, but looking back he had Hurd winning four or the first five rounds, which is outrageous to me. Dave Moretti got me again. Everyone I spoke to thinks I won the fight, I know he's got some people who thought he won the fight, but anytime fights are this close you run them right back. Floyd Mayweather has close fights with Castillo and Maidana and he ran them right back. This is one of the things the fans love most about boxing, whenever there's a good fight they expect it to be ran right back and that's what I want, I want the rematch and I'm ready to go tomorrow."

Press Release: Representatives of WBO/WBC cruiserweight champion Oleksandyr Usyk have informed promoter Comosa AG that Usyk suffered a minor elbow injury during training for his World Boxing Super Series Final against WBA/IBF champion Murat Gassiev. It has been confirmed by all parties, including Comosa’s independent medical staff, that Usyk is unavailable for the scheduled date of the event, May 11th. As such, the May 11th event, which was to decide the Muhammad Ali Trophy and undisputed world cruiserweight championship, and was due to take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has been postponed.

Press Release: Opponents have been announced for the featured boxers on the April 28th show in Aguascalientes, Mexico show promoted by Sugar Promotions. Humberto "Tito" Velazco (19-1-1, 13 KOs), who hails from Aguascalientes, will face Colombia's Davis Caceres (25-8, 20 KOs), in a ten-round super middleweight bout.  Damien "Sugar" Vazquez (13-0, 7 KOs), from Las Vegas, NV, will battle Venezuela's Luis Golindano (9-0, 6 KOs) at 122 pounds over ten sessions.

Cristofer Rosales TKO9 Daigo Higa... In a surprising turn of events, Cristofer Rosales of Nicaragua earned the WBC 112-pound championship by defeating Japan's Daigo Higa. Rosales won by ninth-round technical knockout when Higa's corner stopped the fight. According to ringside reports, Higa noticeably slowed down from the sixth round due to Rosales' punishment. The hard-hitting Higa went for broke in an exciting eighth round, and had very little left in the ninth. Still, he was not close to going down when his corner stopped the fight. Yesterday, Higa came in overweight, forfeiting his championship, but Rosales was eligible to win championship recognition with a win over the previously undefeated Higa (now 15-1 with 15 KOs). Rosales is now 27-3 with notable losses to Andrew Selby and current WBA 115-pound champ Khalid Yafai, both  on trips to the UK. source: yahoo! sports / afp / youtube

Jessica Nery Plata W10 Silvia Torres... Jessica Nery Plata scored a split decision victory over Silvia Torres in Tlalpan, Mexico, to win the WBA women's interim light flyweight title.  The scorecards read 98-93 Plata, 96-94 Plata and 97-94 Torres at the end of ten rounds. Both women are from mexico and Torres (18-1-1) had some amateur wins over Plata (22-2) but Plata has vastly improved since that time. Plata was emotional about the victory as she dedicated the fight to her recently deceased mother, saying “I have many mixed feelings, this belt is in memory of my mom, who left me just a few months ago.” Both fighters agreed that a rematch is in order but Plata is now in line for a big fight vs. Yesica Bopp, the longtime WBA female light flyweight champion. source: wba

Press Release:  Trainer Johnathon Banks been tutoring Swedish heavyweight Adrian Granat (15-1, 14 KOs) at Detroit's  famous Kronk Gym ahead of his Viking showdown with domestic rival Otto Wallin (19-0, 13 KOs), which is set for April 21st at the Gärdehov in Sundsvall, Sweden.

Press Release: Fire Fist Boxing Promotions will take over The Coliseum in St. Petersburg, Florida with a fight card Saturday, June 16th headlined by middleweight Connor “The Kid” Coyle (7-0) against Danny “El Bebo” Pastrana (6-4). In the eight round co-feature, popular cruiserweight Nicholas “The Showstopper” Iannuzzi (19-4) of Tampa meets Georgia-based Puerto Rican Vincent Miranda (17-2).