Steven Luevano Boxing News

Highlights of Lopez and Luevano on Boxing After Dark. The fight originally aired 1/23/10. For more information, log onto HBO.com.

By Sam Gregory: In tonight’s main event on HBO’s Boxing After Dark undefeated Juan Manuel Lopez fought six and a half brutal rounds for his first fight in the featherweight division against Steven Luevano to capture the WBO featherweight title.

HBO BOXING AFTER DARK® kicks off 2010 with an explosive featherweight doubleheader from the Big Apple when STEVEN LUEVANO VS. JUAN MANUEL LOPEZ AND YURIORKIS GAMBOA VS. ROGERS MTAGWA is presented SATURDAY, JAN. 23 (9:45 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT) from the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, exclusively on HBO. [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Making his 6th defense of his World Boxing Organization super featherweight title, champion Steven Luevano (37-1-1, 15 KO’s) will be taking on Juan Manuel Lopez (27-0, 24 KO’s) at the Madison Square Garden, New York, New York. Lopez, 26, will be moving up in weight in hopes of adding another title to [...]

By Peter Wells: Puerto Rican fighter Juan Manuel Lopez has been criticized badly for moving up for featherweight to fight Steven Luevano instead of fighting the Super Bantamweight number #1 Celestino Caballero.
Lopez is the current World Boxing Organization Super Bantamweight champion while Caballero holds the WBA and IBF titles. Lopez has had plenty to [...]

By Peter Wells: Before our big fight between WBC Welterweight champion Andre Berto and WBA champion Shane Mosley we have a great little guys battle. But when these so called little guys fight, they are like machines and fight to thrill. Not many come as light and destructive as Juan Manuel Lopez can when he [...]

By M. Perez: With the fight getting out of hand in the 7th round, featherweight Bernabe Conception (28-3-1, 16 KO’s) evened the score by landing a picturesque right hand that flattened World Boxing Organization featherweight champion Steven Luevano (37-1-1, 15 KO’s) well after the bell on Saturday night, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, [...]

By Aaron Klein: World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion Steven Luevano (36-1-1, 15 KOs) successfully defended his title over Australian Billy Dib (21-1, 11 KOs), earning a 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the
Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Luevano, 27, was making his 4th defense of his WBO title that he won [...]

By Eric Thomas: Making his third defense of his World Boxing Organization featherweight title, champion Steven Luevano (35-1-1, 15 KOs) was forced to settle for a draw with his 10th ranked WBO challenger Mario Santiago (19-1-1, 14 KOs), and should consider himself lucky that he escaped with that on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay [...]

In a one-sided fight, WBO featherweight champion Steven Luevano (35-1, 15 KOs) defeated former kick boxer from Thailand Terdsak Jandaeng (29-3, 19 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was very little suspense in the fight other than in the fourth round when Luevano, 27, [...]