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The Antonio Margarito vs “Sugar” Shane Mosley WBA welterweight championship fight set for January 24th at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas has been moved to Staples Center in Los Angeles. Promoter Bob Arum said the bout is “an L.A. fight,” and revealed that MGM/Mirage planned to buy only about 40% of the expected tickets. There was speculations that the bout might have been moved due to the possibilities of additional scrutiny or possible discipline in Nevada after the release of grand jury testimony in which Mosley admitted taking performance enhancing EPO injections.Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Officer Keith Kizer told The Times that he didn’t think that was the reason the fight was moved.

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December 11th at the Irvine Marriott in Irvine, California, the Battle in the Ballroom will feature a women’s bout, between California State Flyweight Champion  Carly “Chaos” Batey of San Diego takes on Johanna Tangaro of Coachella. Batey’s title will not be on the line. The main event will feature Luis Ramos vs. Justo Vallecillo. Promoter Roy Engelbrecht continues to have great women’s bouts on his card!

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The recent resignation of embattled California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) Executive Director Armando Garcia apparently came from pressure applied after it was announced a year ago that New Era Fighting (NEF) was filing a  $500,000,000 lawsuit against Garcia, alleging a pattern and practice by the California State Athletic Commission of intentionally, willfully and viciously interfering with a licensed and approved event, which effected and injured New Era Fighting in the same or similar fashion as other mixed martial arts promoters, managers and fighters.
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A U.S. District Court judge has unsealed thousands of previously court-protected documents from the BALCO drug case including former world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley’s 2003 grand jury testimony. According to the New York Daily News, Mosley testified that he injected himself with the performance enhancing substance EPO before his second fight with Oscar De La Hoya, who ironically is now his business partner. Mosley is scheduled to challenge WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito on January 24th.

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CHRIS ARREOLA VS TRAVIS WALKER

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Ricky Hatton’s trainer Floyd Mayweather Senior has revealed he may have to retire from training because of health problems.

Mayweather, 55, has a lung disease called sarcoidosis, which he says has gotten worse over the last few years. Sr. developed sarcoidosis shortly after moving to Las Vegas 11 years ago. Desert dust, exacerbated by construction dust, assaults his lungs. He is considering moving home, at least part-time, but cold weather has its own negative effects. He coughs every few seconds and he took steroids over a few years to treat it, now uses herbal remedies and ointments.
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Jorge “Niño de Oro” Linares won the vacant WBA super featherweight world championship by knocking out Panamanian Whyber Garcia in the 5th round on Friday night at the Atlapa Convention Center in Panama City. Jorge imposed his will and pressure on his opponent landing several punches causing the referee to stop the bout. Linares. The time of the stoppage was 1:08

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Welterweight Jesus Soto-Karass (22-3-3, 16 KOs) who is ranked  #3 by the WBC TKO’d Hicklet Lau (20-18-2, 9 KOs) in the second round on Friday night at the Santa Ana Star Arena in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Soto-Karass, who has won 13 straight fights, came out in the first round walking Lau down and in the middle of the first caught Lau on the ropes with some very clean hard shots that stunned Lau, knocking him from corner to corner.
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WEIGH-IN

Photos: Jan Sanders/Goossen Tutor Promotions
Venue: Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, CA
Paul Williams 153.5 vs Verno Phillips 154
(WBO interim jr. middleweight championship)
Chris Arreloa 254 Travis Walker 231
(IBF heavyweight eliminator)
Josesito Lopez 141.5 vs. Alex Perez 142
Manuel Quezada 230 vs. Teke Oruh 249
Michael Dallas Jr. 140 vs. Jose Alfredo Lugo 138.5
Shawn Estrada 163.5 vs. Lawrence Jones 159

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Super flyweight champion Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan (31-1-1, 25 KOs) has ripped into WBA interim super flyweight champion Jorge Arce (51-4-1, 38 KOs), whom he will fight on February 7, 2009. “I can’t get enough of Mexican fighters,” said Darchinyan. “They bounce real good off the canvas when I hit them. Let’s see, I’ve stopped Cristian Mijares, Victor Burgos and Luis Maldonado over the past two years. Unlike Jorge Arce, those three fighters were very tough hombres. Defeating Arce won’t take much training. It won’t even be a fight for me!”

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photo: Eroll Popova
Maritim-Hotel in Magdeburg, Germany
Natascha Ragosina 165.5 vs Conjestina Achieng 161.8
(WBC/WBA female super middleweight championship)
Ramona Kuehne 133.1 vs Dahianna Santana 129.1
(WIBF lightweight championship)
Serdar Sahin 198.1 vs Patrick Linkert 192.6
Tommy Altmann 144.4 vs Istvan Hegedus 141.9
Maria Lindberg 154.3 vs Pia Porter 157.6
Ilian Ares 146.8 vs Laszlo Komjathi 145.9

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Right Cross has learned that boxing referee Toby Gibson has taken his own life. Gibson was 61, he was found dead in the garage of his Las Vegas home on monday by his wife Barbara. Mr. Gibson refereed two fights this past weekend on the undercard of Ricky Hatton - Paulie Maglinaggi at the MGM Grand Hotel Casino. A spokeswoman for the Clark County coroner’s office said the cause and manner of death are pending.

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Just two days before Thanksgiving and “At Last” featuring 2-time WBO Welterweight World Champion and “The Most Feared Fighter in Boxing,” Paul “The Punisher” Williams taking on 3-time World Champion, Verno Phillips, in an interim 12 round WBO Super Welterweight World Championship bout, will take place two days later on Saturday, November 29, at the Inland Empire’s hottest state-of-the-art building, Citizens Business Bank Arena located in Ontario, California and broadcast on HBO.

Presented by Goossen Tutor Promotions,  Riverside’s and Inland Empire’s Cristobal “The Nightmare” Arreola, the WBC Continental Americas Heavyweight Champion will fight NABF Heavyweight Champion, Travis “Freight Train” Walker also in a 12-round IBF  Heavyweight Elimination bout.  In addition,  Shawn Estrada, the 2008 US Olympian from East Los Angeles, will be making his professional 4-round debut.
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The battle that was supposed to happen between WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito and challenger Shane Mosley is back on for January 24th in Las Vegas. Margarito is back in training in Tijuana and is expected to be traveling soon to Los Angeles for more intensive training. At first Margarito didn’t accept the original proposal of the division 50/50 of the $4 million offered, but HBO apparently raised the pot enough to entice “The Tijuana Tornado.” After Mosley, Margarito is expected to give a rematch to Miguel Cotto in June at New York City.

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43-year-old former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis says he will return for a rematch with Vitali Klitschko if someone coughs up $100 million. “It is not and it has never been about the money,” Lewis claimed to the London Independent. “I’ve had big offers again and again since the first day that I retired and I always say ‘No’. It is about respect and the glory. I have nothing to prove.”

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Unbeaten WIBF/WBC female featherweight champion Ina Menzer (22-0, 9 KOs) won 10 round unanimous decision against the game Adriana Salles (11-4-1, 5 KOs) to retain her belts. Menzer had Salles in trouble on several occasions but couldn’t put her away. When the final bell sounded and as the final scores were read Salles had tears in her eyes because she knew what the judges decisions would be.98-92, 100-90, 99-91 all for Menzer.
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Thursday night at the Palais des Sports in Saint-Quentin Aisne, France, Myriam Chomaz won a split decision over American Jennifer Barber. Final judges scores were 98-93 for Barber, 94-96, and 95-96 for Chomaz.  According to a source, Barber won almost all the rounds and had Chomaz hurt during the fight. Chomaz wins the interim WBC Super Featherweight title.