Ivan Rivera, president of PR Best Boxing, confirmed Wednesday that former WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez will return on October 1 against Mike Oliver. We will offer a press conference on Thursday in the Braulio Castillo Theater in Bayamón, to announce a multi-event where Rocky Martinez and Jonathan Oquendo will also fight. The card will be called Triple Crown 3. We arrived on Monday at a financial arrangement with Oliver who will be present at the press conference, Lopez (30-1, 27 KOs) is recovering not only from his loss to Orlando Salido but also a marital breakdown and is looking to earn a rematch with Salido for the first quarter of 2012. [SIZE=-2]August 17th, 2011[/SIZE] It looks like Lopez want to make sure he doesnt lose his next fight.He is fighting a little bantamweight instead a rematch with Salido. Couldnt he pick a decent FW instead?
he wants a rematch with salido but salido wants to defend his title one more time before he gives juanma his rematch.they are going to fight in the beginning of 2012 if they both win their next bouts
Salido deserves a chance to fight in front of his home crowd as a champion. He's had a long, tough career. So JuanMa takes a tune-up and the rematch goes down early 2012.
i dont know, Oliver has never fought at FW,his resume is average,nothing impressive. a rematch with mtagwa would have sound better, or somebody like Solis
It’s official. Former two time world champion Juan Manuel “Juanma” López will face Mike “Machine Gun” Oliver next October 1st at the coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Bayamon, Puerto Rico in the show Triple Crown III, that will have also in action former 130lb world champion Román “Rocky” Martínez and #3 super bantamweight ranked Jonathan “Polvo” Oquendo in regional titles bouts, in a PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) and Top Rank Inc. presentation to be televised on “Pay Per View.” López (30-1, 27 KOs), who reigned in 122 and 126 pounds as World Boxing Organization (WBO) champion will fight Oliver (25-2, 8 KOs) for the featherweight WBO Latino Title headlining this show in Bayamon, where he lost his world championship last April 16 against Orlando Salido. “I wanted this fight to be against Salido, a rematch, but because of business and TV, my rematch will be held in the first months of the next year. I’m going versus Oliver, a good boxer, and I’m training for boxing, but also for a brawl, I’m ready for everything. I want to show that I can be world champion again,” Lopez said. Meanwhile, Oliver said that “I know Juanma Lopez is a good fighter, but I always work hard and I’m going to be in my best shape for him. On October 1st the best man on the ring will win.” In the co-feature “Rocky” Martínez (24-1-1, 15 KOs), former WBO junior lightweight champion, will return after a year out of the ring when he faces Mexican Ramón Maas (25-1, 15 KOs) for the 130lb WBO Intercontinental Title. Martínez, from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, lost his title last September 4 in Scotland against current champion Ricky Burns in an exciting fight. “I’ve been a year without a fight, but always I’m trainin and keep in the gym. I’m going to face a good fighter, but I’m will recover my career to be world champion again”, Martinez said. Another featured bout presents “Polvo” Oquendo (21-2, 14 KOs), #3 122lb ranked, who will face #1 ranked in the superbantanweight division Sod Looknongyantoy, from Thailand (51-2-1, 21 KOs) for the WBO Latino superbantanweight title. “I’m eager for this fight. I’m training and training to win this fight because I want to be champion and wining this bout I will have my chance”, Oquendo said. Tickets are availables at Ticketcenter PPV ???????
Eventually it's going to catch up to him if he continues to balloon up in weight in between fights. Check out Olivers Ko percentage, JuanMa shouldn't even worry about defense for this one. I expect him to take it to Oliver and lay him out by the 3rd round. :bbb
Oh my... Oliver isn't even as good as his record makes it seem. Against someone with Lopez's style and attributes he is so far up ****'s Creek that he gets swept out along **** Tributary to the **** River and deposited unceremoniously into the **** Sea. Rey-Rey Lopez had him seeing stars (trust me; I was ringside and it was an ugly scene. Oliver lost more brain cells that night than do most fratboys between pledge and graduation). JuanMa might actually kill him.
Eh, I wouldn't say EXTREMELY. Faster than average, but he was never a Gary Russell Jr. type. Even without the tissue chin, he was always a bit too hyped on the way up IMO. It's cute that he beefed up his nickname from "Mighty Mike" to "Machine Gun", but he's still the same physically and mentally fragile guy with no great love of being in a fight (the ten hard rounds Castulo Gonzalez gave him in 2009 in their rematches made him squirm in discomfiture, and Castulo shouldn't be making anyone even near world level squirm).
