Junior Middleweight: 2013, Apr 15-21
No action to report from last week.
Dan’s Top 20 (Weeks in Current Position-Weeks in Top 10 if applicable-Weeks in Top 20) Champ: None 1) Carlos Molina (11-93-108) Last Fight: 2/1/2013- UD12 #11 Cory Spinks Next Fight: Unknown Ishe Smith says he plans to offer Molina a shot at his alphabet belt. 2) Saul Alvarez (11-111-126) Last Fight: 9/15/2012- TKO5 WW#? Josesito Lopez Next Fight: 4/20/2013- vs. #3 Austin Trout Canelo’s fight with Trout has been moved to April 20 after he had a falling out with Floyd over the apparent cancellation of their agreement to fight each other on September 14. Canelo plans to fight in a September 14 PPV still, but is now looking at Cotto. 3) Austin Trout (8-46-115) Last Fight: 12/1/2012- UD12 #6 Miguel Cotto Next Fight: 4/20/2013- vs. #2 Saul Alvarez See Alvarez’s notes, above. 4) Erislandy Lara (8-93-115) Last Fight: 11/10/2012- D* (TD9) vs. #15 Vanes Martirosyan (robbery- should be win) Next Fight: 6/8/2013- vs. #9 Alfredo Angulo Lara will fight Angulo on Showtime, June 8 in Carson, California. 5) Ishe Smith (8-8-8) Last Fight: 2/23/2013- W (MD12) vs. #3 Cornelius Bundrage Next Fight: Unknown See Molina’s notes, above. 6) Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (20-50-50) Last Fight: 5/5/2012- UD12* #4 Miguel Cotto Next Fight: 5/4/2013- vs. WW #? Robert Guerrero (at WW) Mayweather will officially be fighting Robert Guerrero on Showtime PPV on May 4. That’s just a day before the 1-year anniversary of his last fight at 154, and since the fight will be at 147, he will likely be removed the following week. 7) Miguel Cotto (20-150-150) Last Fight: 12/1/2012- L (UD12) vs. #8 Austin Trout Next Fight: Unknown Cotto has laid out the plans for the rest of his career. He says he’ll fight in October or November, twice in 2014, and then retire. Canelo wants him in September. 8) Cornelius Bundrage (4-141-141) Last Fight: 2/23/2013- L (MD12) vs. Ishe Smith (UNR) Next Fight: Unknown Bundrage should probably retire after how awful he looked against Smith. 9) Alfredo Angulo (4-186-186) Last Fight: 12/15/2012- UD10 Jorge Silva (UNR) Next Fight: 6/8/2013- vs. #4 Erislandy Lara After it looked for awhile that he might fight Rosado next, Angulo will instead battle #4 Lara in Carson, California in early June. 10) Gabriel Rosado (4-4-115) Last Fight: 1/19/2013- L (TKO7) vs. #3 MW Gennady Golovkin (at MW) Next Fight: 5/4/2013- vs. J’Leon Love (UNR) (at MW) Rosado will fight undefeated prospect J’Leon Love on the Mayweather-Guerrero undercard on May 4, at 160. 11) Sergey Rabchenko (4-44) Last Fight: 3/30/2013- KO2 Adriano Nicchi (UNR) Next Fight: Unknown Rabchenko might be fighting Italian prospect Emanuele Della Rosa on July 13 in Monaco. 12) Delvin Rodriguez (4-92) Last Fight: 2/15/2013- TKO6 George Tahdooahnippah (UNR) (at MW) Next Fight: Unknown Having not come all that close to making 154 against Tahdooahnippah, Rodriguez will need to schedule a fight at 154 before June 2 to maintain his ranking. 13) Lukas Konecny (4-88) Last Fight: 3/23/2013- W (TD12) vs. Karim Achour (UNR) (at MW) Next Fight: Unknown 14) Keith Thurman (4-21) Last Fight: 3/9/2013- UD12 #? WW Jan Zaveck (at WW) Next Fight: Unknown Date- vs. Diego Chaves (UNR) (at WW) Thurman will be back on either July 20 or 27 against undefeated Argentine prospect Diego Chaves, again at Welterweight. 15) Vanes Martirosyan (4-98) Last Fight: 11/10/2012- D* (TD9) vs. #6 Erislandy Lara (robbery- should be L) Next Fight: Unknown Martirosyan was set to fight Javier Maciel on April 6 in China, but broke his thumb. 16) Yuri Foreman (4-12) Last Fight: 4/6/2013- UD6 Gundrick King (UNR) Next Fight: Unknown Foreman is keeping his comeback at a very low level for the time being. 17) Sechew Powell (4-161) Last Fight: 6/1/2012- L (TKO9) vs. #10 Gabriel Rosado Next Fight: Unknown 18) Willie Nelson (4-7) Last Fight: 3/1/2013- TKO1 Michael Medina (UNR) Next Fight: 6/29/2013- vs. Unknown Opponent Nelson is set to return on the Golovkin-Macklin undercard on June 29, but no opponent yet. He was rumored to fight Joshua Clottey, but those rumors appear false. 19) Michel Soro (4-14) Last Fight: 1/12/2013- UD12 Kris Carslaw (UNR) Next Fight: 5/4/2013- vs. Frederic Serre (UNR) Soro’s fight with Serre for the French title has been postponed to May 4. 20) Anthony Mundine (4-4) Last Fight: 1/30/2013- L (UD12) vs. #1 MW Daniel Geale Next Fight: Unknown Even if this week’s fights don’t force him out, Mundine will be removed next week unless he schedules a fight at 154, since he hasn’t made 154 in 18 months.
The Week Ahead: The big one this week is #2 Canelo Alvarez vs. #3 Austin Trout. Many are touting this as being for the legitimate championship, and it is certainly close. But I subscribe to the time-tested theory that you can’t have a championship fight without the #1 contender being involved. I didn’t put Carlos Molina in that lofty position lightly. The only way you could have Molina anywhere below #1 logically would be to accept the robbery disqualification he suffered against James Kirkland as legitimate. Even so, it is a wonderful fight, and should give us a clear #1 contender.
Earlier that night in Blackpool, England, fringe contender and British champion Brian Rose looks to move up to the world level against fellow fringe contender Joachim Alcine, who comes off a quick knockout loss to Matthew Macklin at 160 last fall.
The same night in Clichy la Garenne, France, local gatekeeper Frank Haroche Horta returns after less than a 3-week layoff against weak Polish journeyman Mariusz Biskupski.
Friday in Atlantic City, undefeated Minnesota prospect Ceresso Fort battles fellow prospect John Jackson of the Virgin Islands (whose only loss was to current #18 Willie Nelson) on Friday Night Fights.
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