Mike Alvarado returns in 8-round co-feature on Solo Boxeo on March 19th.

...versus 19-6 (10) Saul Corral, who possesses just ONE triumph over somebody with a positive record. :!:

Juan Díaz in the main event, also scheduled for eight, after freezing his comeback and taking ALL of 2015 off, with a comparatively more respectable opponent in 30-7-2 (18.) Fernando Garcia, who at least has beaten Aaron Herrera.

 

I'm going to watch this, because I am beholden to all televised boxing's siren call - but this couldn't be any less meaningful. Both these guys are deluding themselves if they believe they will ever return to a big stage.

 

Yeah, on the one hand I'm not surprised they are reaching as deep into the barrel as Corral, but on the other it really is kind of pathetic.

 

It would be more interesting by far if they fought each other, @ 140.

 

Both of them will be walking punching bags if they manage trading off their names to land an elite (or even a ranked live body) at this point.

 

A little from Column A...

 

Díaz actually didn't look horrible in his initial comeback in 2013 and 2014, but that was after three years off, and he never fought anybody with a pulse really, and has now had another eighteen months' layoff? :-(

Nearly six years since his last meaningful competition, and in both the Márquez and Malignaggi rematches he was pretty soundly licked. Hard to imagine he could even be in 2009 or 2010 form (which puts him squarely outside the world title picture as it stood) and his engine - his chief asset in his prime - at 33 can't be half of what it was in his twenties.