From the evil 4-letter network: Lopez, a 2004 Puerto Rican Olympian, will next fight on the same card at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York with Gamboa -- assuming Gamboa wins a July 25 defense in Mexico on Top Rank's next "Latin Fury" pay-per-view card -- in late September or October. The date had been Sept. 26, but Arum said the show probably would move to get out of the way of the rescheduled Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez pay-per-view card the previous Saturday. "Juanma is very fortunate that we have Gamboa and, in a year or so, it's going to be a very big fight. It's going to be a monster fight," Arum said. "Juanma is showing he is a complete fighter. Who can stand up to him at junior featherweight or featherweight with maybe the exception of Gamboa?" Arum said that, after the fall card, Lopez probably will go up to featherweight, where he would like to match Lopez with the winner of the Aug. 15 fight between titlist Steven Luevano and Bernabe Concepcion. Even in the event JuanMa loses, Arum promotes all of the mentioned fighters, so he can summon up a rematch if he wants. In addition, the fact that he's talking Luevano-Concepcion means he's had this path laid down for JuanMa for awhile now. Thinking two steps ahead. On the other hand, Maidana now has the chance to run for the hills with his interim WBA belt and Ortiz will be denied any chance at redemption because Oscar was so confident his guy would blow right through him. Oscar needs to either fire his buddy Eric Gomez or find more knowledgeable people to support him in handling the career steps of his fighters. There is no way a fighter like Ortiz should be put in a situation where no one saw this coming.
Or boxing could be rid of all the Arums, Saurlands and Kings of the sport and have the best fight the best. Ortiz lost, get over it. If he has the heart and desire then he will be back.
