Sunday at the Minneapolis Armory. WBA regular super middleweight title at stake, 1st defense of Morrell after being elevated from interim. He was originally set to defend against John Ryder (currently WBA #3) on Saturday evening, but it got bumped a day later plus a dozen spots down the rankings for reasons unknown. While not as much a young & precocious line-jumping upstart as the Cuban southpaw, Cázares has made quite a splash at just 12-0 having recently defeated Julio César Chávez Carrasco (before geriatric UFC veteran Anderson Silva came along to replicate - and dilute - the feat, last night) and the Mexican boasts a previously little-mentioned but, in light of the JCC Jr. upset much more attention-grabbing domestic victory over Canelo in the amateurs.
It was in 2004 at the Olympiada Nacional in Mexico, which took place in April. Canelo's birthday is mid-July; so he was actually still 13 (and looked eleven or twelve ). This content is protected In fairness, however, Cázares is the same age (his DOB is just four days before Canelo's).
"Lethal" Leon Lawson III vs. Nathaniel "Nate The Great" George Gallimore, 10 rounds @ light middleweight