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Keith Thurman vs. Julio Diaz & Lucas Matthysse vs. John Molina this Saturday night on Showtime

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thurman432By Allan Fox: This Saturday night WBA interim welterweight champion Keith Thurman (22-0, 20 KO’s) will be testing his skills against former IBF lightweight champion Julio Diaz (40-9-1, 29 KO’s) on Showtime at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Besides the Thurman-Diaz fight, light welterweight contender Lucas Matthysse (34-3, 32 KO’s) will be facing lightweight John Molina (27-3, 22 KO’s) in a 12 round bout for the vacant WBC Continental Americas light welterweight title.

Wrapping up the televised portion of the card will be a fight between WBA lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (22-0-1, 17 KO’s) and #15 WBC fringe contender Jerry Belmontes (19-3, 5 KO’s).

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Lucas Matthysse vs. John Molina Jr on April 26th at StubHub Center, Carson, California

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matthysse84By Scott Gilfoid: On the same card as the mismatch between Keith Thurman and Julio Diaz, former WBC interim light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (34-3, 32 KO’s) will be facing lightweight contender John Molina Jr. (27-3, 22 KO’s) at the StubHub Center, in Carson, California, USA. The reason for this mismatch obviously is to get Matthysse a sure thing win against a fighter that is somewhat known by casual boxing fans.

I must say this card is absolutely horrible. I mean, there are good talents in Matthysse and Thurman on the card, but some god awful matches though. It’s not even sporting to see Thurman fighting Diaz and Matthysse fighting Molina Jr. It’s like stunning someone in the head and sending them out in the ring to try their luck against Matthysse and Thurman.

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Adrien Broner – John Molina possible for Mayweather-Maidana card on 5/3

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broner6262By Scott Gilfoid: A fight between lightweight John Molina (27-3, 22 KO’s) and Adrien Broner (27-1, 22 KO’s) is being talked about for the co-feature bout on the May 3rd Showtime pay-per-view card headlined by Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Fighthype.

A Broner-Molina fight is basically a move where Broner would be moving back down to the lightweight division. The plan is for Molina to move up to light welterweight to face Broner. Molina was beaten last year by lightweight Andrey Klimov in losing a 10 round decision. In 2012, Molina was blown out in 1 round by Antonio DeMarco. If you remember, DeMarco is the same guy that Broner destroyed in 8 rounds in 2012.

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Molina destroys Bey in 10th

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bey22By Jim Dower: #6 IBF lightweight contender John Molina (26-3, 21 KO’s) came from behind to get a 10th round stoppage win over the much faster Mickey Bey (18-1-1, 9 KO’s) at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Things were looking pretty bleak for Molina going into the 10th round, but he was able to hurt Bey with a big left hand bomb. After Molina had Bey hurt, he flurried on him until the fight was halted by the referee at 2:01 of the round. Bey needed to play it safe in the 10th, but instead of elected to trade with Molina and it cost him the fight.

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Mickey Bey and John Molina square off this Friday, July 19th on ESPN

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Philadelphia Attitude

Philadelphia boxing is looking to make a statement in the next week. Super featherweights Mickey Bey (18-0-1, 9K0s), of Cleveland, OH, and John Molina, of Covina, CA, face off Friday night at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Topping the card is super middleweight Farah Ennis, (21-1, 12K0s), of Philadelphia, PA, who will face Badou Jack (14-0, 10K0s), of Stockholm, Sweden, in a 10-rounder. This looks on paper to be one of Ennis’ toughest fights, but it also will be Jack’s toughest.

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Dawson-Ward, DeMarco-Molina: Two good fights on HBO on September 8th

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Image: Dawson-Ward, DeMarco-Molina: Two good fights on HBO on September 8thBy Allan Fox: It’s scary how bad last night’s mismatches were on HBO with Adrien Broner easily beating Vincente Escobedo, Keith Thurman destroying an overmatched Orlando Lora and Omar Figueroa dominating an outclassed Dominic Salcido. The card was either poorly thought out or planned to make the winners look better than they are. Whatever the case, they bad fights for boxing fans to watch. However, on September 8th, HBO has a good chance of redeeming themselves by televising Chad Dawson vs. Andre Ward and Antonio DeMarco vs. John Molina at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

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Banks Defeats Mora, Molina Destroys Hinojosa, Boswell Decisions Salif

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banks43432By Jim Dower: In a lackluster performance, cruiserweight contender Johnathon Banks (22-1, 15 KO’s) defeated heavyweight Javier Mora (22-5-1, 18 KO’s) by an eight round majority decision on the undercard of the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship match-up between champion Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Arreola on Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.

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Molina Jr. Stops Archuleta

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molina43524241By Jason Kin: Unbeaten lightweight John Molina Jr. (17-0, 13 KOs) defeated Frankie Archuleta (25-7-1, 14 KOs) by a 2nd round TKO on Saturday night on the undercard of the Andre Ward vs. Edison Miranda clash at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, California. Molina Jr. unloaded with a storm of shots in the 2nd round, knocking Archuleta to the canvas late in the round. The referee David Mendoza then stepped in and prematurely stopped at 2:04 of the round.

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Javier Molina, Estrada and Molina on March 27th – Boxing News

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LOS ANGELES, March 5 – What do California cities of East Los Angeles, City of Commerce and Covina have in common? They hold the distinction of being home to three of the top young fighters in the World today, Shawn Estrada, Javier Molina and John Molina, Jr. (no relation) respectively. All three cities will be well represented when each of these young men step into the ring at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Friday, March 27.

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Molina Too Much For Allotey

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molina4423By Jim Dower: Undefeated lightweight prospect John Molina (15-0, 11 KOs) destroyed Kpakpo Allotey (16-7, 14 KOs) in the 3rd round on Friday night at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino, in Lemoore, California. Molina, 26, dropped Allotey with a hard left to the body in the 3rd, at which point Allotey rolled around on the canvas in pain and was quickly counted out at 1:28 of the round by referee Dan Stell. At the start of the round, Molina had again landed a hard left to the body, sending Allotey down on the canvas in pain.

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