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November 30th, 2010 |

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Latest Boxing News, Tuesday 30^th November for: Robert Guerrero, Drian Francisco, Hugo Cazares, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Jenifel Vicente,Felix Diaz, Carl Froch, Glen Johnson, Arthur Abraham, Juan Carlos Burgos, Hozumi Hasegawa

Robert Guerrero has plenty of options – According to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, former champion Robert Guerrero has plenty of options for his next fight, but it doesn’t appear that WBO/WBA lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is one of them. Marquez has focused his energy on chasing a third fight with Manny Pacquiao and refuses to entertain the possibility of any other opponent, for the moment. — “Marquez refuses to discuss anything else but Manny Pacquiao. That’s the only fight that he wants, and that’s all that he’s really interested in right now. So it would be really disrespectful of me to go and go and to discuss anything else,” Schaefer said. “For Robert, though, I have had conversations with HBO to get Robert back on HBO, and the sooner the better. Maybe sometime in the first quarter of 2011 in a meaningful fight.” — “I think that Robert Guerrero is one of these young fighters who has one of the brightest futures ahead of him in boxing in his weight class in the 130s and the 140s. There are so many big names and so many big opportunities there for Robert.”

Drian Francisco (20-0-1, 16 KOs) became the WBA interim super flyweight champion as he scored a tenth round TKO over WBA #2 Duangpetch Kokietgym (52-2-1, 21 KOs) on Tuesday at Bungkan school in Nongkhai, Thailand. Francisco dropped Duangpetch twice in round six and destroyed the Thailander with a tough right uppercut in round ten. Francisco’s management have already targeted Mexico’s Hugo Cazares, who holds the WBA’s full championship. They would like the fight to take place in March, once Cazares has run out of optional defenses. Meanwhile, Cazares will be making a final optional defense of his title on December 23 in Japan against Hiroyuki Hisatake in the city of Osaka.

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr — After losing several days of training, unbeaten WBC #1 middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 31 KOs) resumed his preparation on Monday for his fight this Saturday against Pawel Wolak (27-1, 17 KOs) at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Junior worked out for two hours under the eye of trainer Freddie Roach and conditioning coach Alex Ariza. “I was knocked down by a nasty flu, but thank God I was able to train this afternoon and I felt very good,” said Chavez Jr. “I’m taking a risk with the fight with Wolak, but I did a lot of preparation with a great trainer in Freddie Roach and his team and that gives me the confidence to move forward.” The Son of the Legend fell ill last week with a bad cold that prevented him from training for several days and put into question his fight with Wolak at the Honda Center.

Promising Dominican Jr Featherweight, WBA #13, Jenifel Vicente (19-0-2, 13 KOs) excited the local crowd in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, with a brutal knockout of Colombian visitor Jonathan Perez (17-8, 14 KOs) in just two rounds on Monday night. The ever attacking Vicente landed a thunderous right hand on the young Colombian’s chin at the beginning of the second round. Perez just crumpled to the canvas where he received the full count and laid prone for various minutes. With this explosive victory Vicente acquires the vacant WBA Fedelatin title. — The co-main event saw 2008 Olympic Champion Felix Diaz (8-0, 5 KOs) win a five round technical decision over tough Colombian veteran Edinson Garcia (17-11, 6 KOs). Diaz won every round.

Froch faces Johnson next — WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) won an impressive 12 round unanimous decision over Arthur Abraham (31-2, 25 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Hartwall Arena, in Helsinki, Finland. With the win, Froch re-captured his WBC title which he had lost in his last fight in the Super Six tournament against Mikkel Kessler. Now with the best back in his possession, Froch moves into the semifinals of the Super Six tournament against 41-year-old Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) in a fight that will be taking place in the United States at a still to be determined location.

Abraham: “I’m always the smallest” — After suffering a disappointing 12 round unanimous decision defeat to Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) in his stage 3 Super Six tournament bout last Saturday night in Helsinki, Finland, former IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (31-2, 25 KO’s) admitted in an interview with the Bild.de, that he may be too small for the super middleweight division. — Abraham said “The others are simply larger. I’m always the smallest.” When asked if he’s considering moving back down to the middleweight division, Abraham said “Yes, about that I need to think.” Abraham says he’s going to stick it out in the tournament rather than quit and will fight Andre Ward next year. When asked if he’ll take that fight, Abraham said “Naturally, I’m a fair sports man.”

Juan Carlos Burgos Returns Home — Orange, CA (November 29, 2010) – Upon arriving to his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico, previously undefeated Juan Carlos Burgos (25-1, 18 KOs) reflected on his recent defeat in Nagoya, Japan, when he faced legendary Hozumi Hasegawa (29-3, 11 KOs) for the vacant WBC Featherweight title. After 12 brutal non-stop rounds — “I told all the reporters in Japan that I had no excuses, I fought a rough Japanese opponent that did the same as me, he gave it his all. I won’t take that away from him, he had a better night and his hand was raised at the end. But I disagree with a few things that happened during the fight; for one, I got a point deducted on the eighth round for a supposed unintentional head butt. Referee Roberto Ramirez Jr., saw it as a butt but it was a punch, a clean punch that cut Hasegawa’s eye.”

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