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2013-08-02 Luis Franco vs Javier Fortuna 22(16)-0-0

 

hey Cuban posters, what can you guys say about 6'4 heavyweight prospect Roberto Alfonso? i've read an article about him, people are saying he's the new Riddick Bowe, he had a fight last year, and will fight this Friday night

 

Ugas won by KO in 40 secs

 

Only 1 fight so far, hard to say. Didn't look impressive his first time. I read an interview with him and said he wasn't motivated at all ( still Doesnt look very motivated) but working now with a new team and feels happy. He fights tonight.

 

Yunier Dorticos 2013-07-13 TBA

 

Alfons , still young a former cuban heavy weight gold medalist

 

Robert Alfonso
2013-06-28 Robert Dunton 9(6)-7(5)-1

Civic Center, Kissimmee, Florida, USA

 

Alfonso won on Points in a 4 rounder.

 

High ranked geavyweight Luis Ortiz fight i North Carolina 20 of july

 

The WBA Championships Committee will conduct a purse bid for the mandatory fight for the vacant super bantamweight title between interim world champion Scott Quigg and Cuban challenger Yoandris Salinas. The purse bid will be on Monday, July 15, 2013 to be held at 11:00 am at the offices of the World Boxing Association in Panama City. Responsible for directing the auction will be the WBA Executive Vice President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza. The minimum amount to participate will be $120,000 and the money will be distributed 50/50

 

Hope he will finaly get some worthy opponent ... but I wonder who will be the next puppet he will get ...

 

Featherweights Javier Fortuna and Luis Franco, both promising fighters with tremendous speed, have hit recent bumps in their careers. But one of them can leave the problems behind with a win over the other.

Promoters Leon Margules of Warriors Boxing and Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing have announced Fortuna and Franco will meet in the main event of a "Friday Night Fights" card on Aug. 2 (ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes) at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Okla.





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"Fortuna is so strong it's scary, and Franco is unbelievably fast with a great chin," Margules said Monday.

"It's the irresistible force against the immovable object. Something's got to give, and it'll be a cliffhanger to see what happens."

Fortuna (22-0, 16 KOs), 23, a southpaw from the Dominican Republic, was stripped of a featherweight belt for failing to make weight for his first defense after winning the vacant interim title by decision against Patrick Hyland in December on the Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao IV undercard.

Fortuna was 126.6 pounds when the weight limit was 126 for his April 19 fight with Miguel Zamudio, which went ahead anyway with only Zamudio eligible to win the belt. Fortuna, however, scored a pulverizing first-round knockout, leaving the belt vacant and Fortuna vowing to remain at featherweight.

Miami resident Franco (11-1, 7 KOs), 31, a 2004 Cuban Olympian who defected and turned pro in 2009, was scheduled to challenge Billy Dib for his world title on March 1 before abruptly announcing his retirement a month before the bout. Franco was unhappy with his $20,000 purse for the fight, stopped training, pulled out of the bout and told his handlers he was giving up the sport.

While Dib wound up facing replacement opponent Evgeny Gradovich and losing the belt on a split decision, few believed that Franco would stay retired. And now, just a few months later, Franco is back to face Fortuna -- and for less money ($15,000) than he would have made to fight Dib in the world title fight.

 

Boxeo Telemundo closes its Summer Season this Friday
The successful series Boxeo Telemundo Ford and All Star Boxing, Inc closes their summer series this Friday from the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa, Florida. In the main event hometown favorite Charlie “La Bestia” Serrano (15-3-1, 4 KOs) of Tampa, Florida via Puerto Rico who will be making his 17th appearance at the A La Carte Pavilion facing Aalan “Bombardero” Martinez (14-2, 10 KOs) of Los Angeles, California via Mexico in a bout scheduled for 12 rounds with the vacant WBO Latino Featherweight title at stake. The event, which is nearly sold out, has a loaded undercard featuring local talents Manny Woods (10-3-1-4 KOs), Alphonso Black (6-0-1, 3 KOs), Radivoje Kalajdzic (10-0, 7 KOs), Ricky Tomlinson (debut), Noemi Bosque (1-0-1) and undefeated Cuban prospects Alexei Collado (16-0, 15 KOs) and Sullivan Barrera (9-0, 6 KOs) amongst others

 

Interim WBA World light middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (18-1-2, 12 KO’s) is hoping to face former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight card on September 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trout has already said he’s interested in facing Lara and he’s very interested in fighting on the Mayweather-Canelo card. By facing Lara and beating him, Trout will be putting himself in the best position to get a rematch against Canelo.

Trout was beaten by Canelo last April by a 12 round unanimous decision in a fight that many boxing fans had Trout as the

 

You all overrate Lara.

If Canelo had performed as poorly as Lara did against the likes of Molina, Vanes and Angulo you'd all be screaming from the rooftops 'HYPEJOB!'.