By Eric Thomas: Number #2 ranked WBC junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (19-1, 16 KO’s) sees action tonight against Joseph Gomez (17-4-1, 8 KO’s) in a scheduled 12 round bout for the vacant World Boxing Council Continental Americas light middleweight title at the Nido Sport Center, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Angulo, 29, is fighting for the first time since July 2010. He lost a year of his career due to immigration problems.
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Angulo to fight for Golden Boy Promotions, fights on 8/20 against Gomez
By Dan Ambrose: The hard hitting junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (19-1, 16 KO’s) has reportedly had his contract sold from promoter Gary Shaw to Golden Boy Promotions, according to boxing news from Dan Rafael. Angulo, 28, has been inactive since beating Joachim Alcine by a 1st round knockout last year in July 2010.
Angulo-Martirosyan: No word whether these two will fight
By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council recently ordered for junior middleweight contenders Vanes Martirosyan (30-0, 19 KO’s) and Alfredo Angulo 19-1, 15 KO’s) to fight in an eliminator bout to fight a mandatory challenger for WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez.
Saul Alvarez back in action in September, Agulo and Chavez Jr. are possibilities
By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (37-0-1, 27 KO’s) showed what he’s made of last Saturday night in first beating up and then taking out his number #3 WBC contender Ryan Rhodes (45-5, 31 KO’s) by a 12th round knockout at the Arena VFG, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, in Jalisco, Mexico. Alvarez wore the 34-year-old Rhodes down with a crushing body attack in the early rounds of the fight and by the 12th, Rhodes looked weak and ready to be taken out.
Angulo wants to fight Saul Alvarez
By Eric Thomas: Number #2 ranked WBC junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (19-1, 16 KO’s) is interested in facing WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (36-0-1, 26 KO’s) in the near future if Alvarez can get by this Saturday’s opponent Ryan Rhodes. Angulo is training for a fight on August 20th against a still to be determined opponent in Mexico.
Angulo and Kirkland possibilities for Sergio Martinez’s next fight
By Jason Kim: If Miguel Cotto doesn’t choose to fight WBC Emeritus champion Sergio Martinez (47-2-2, 26 KO’s), which doesn’t seem likely due to Cotto’s promoter Bob Arum looking to keep Cotto in house with a fight against Antonio Margarito in July, Martinez could wind up fighting Alfredo Angulo (19-1, 16 KO’s) or James Kirkland (26-0, 23 KO’s) next. Dan Rafael at ESPN is reporting that Martinez’s promoter Lou Dibella is exploring the possibilities of Martinez facing Angulo next.
Shaw wants Angulo to get fight with Alvarez after he whips Hatton on 3/5
By William Mackay: Promoter Gary Shaw has no doubts that unbeaten #1 ranked WBC junior middleweight contender Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) will beat the light-hitting EBU welterweight champion Matthew Hatton (41-4-2, 16 KO’s) on March 5th at the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California. Shaw, who promotes #2 WBC contender Alfredo Angulo (19-1, 16 KO’s), wants the World Boxing Council to give Angulo an immediate shot at the WBC title against Alvarez after Alvarez does away with Hatton, according to fightnews.com.
Light Middleweight world titles are becoming like a peace pipe
By Mark Hepplestall: After another loss for Anthony Mundine and looking at the world rankings, we must ask who are the current world champions? Well after some research I can say Manny Pacquiao holds the WBC light middleweight title and is number 1 in the world, Miguel Cotto holds the World Boxing Association (WBA) version and is number 2 in the world, IBF version is held by Cornelius Bundrage and is number 7 in the world and WBO is held by Serhiy Dzinziruk who is 26th in the world. While the titles that are not world recognized including the IBO title is held by Zaurbek Baysangurov and is 17th in the world. It seems weird that the world champions are ranked lower then some of the best contenders in the division.
Angulo pricing himself out of the Martinez fight makes it possible for Williams-Martinez II rematch
By Jason Kim: Yesterday, top junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo turned down $750,000 to fight WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez because Angulo wanted $1 million for the fight. Since that wasn’t going to happen, Martinez is now looking to fight a rematch against Paul Williams. HBO wants the fight, boxing fans want the fight and it should be an exciting one if Williams and Martinez’s promoters can work out the deal to make this fight happen. The fight will be taking place in November, not October, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. Martinez lost by 12 round majority decision to Williams last year in December, in a fight that many boxing fans felt that Martinez should have won.
Angulo vs. Cotto: Would Miguel take this fight?
By Joseph Hirsch: It’s hard not to like Alfredo Angulo. He is the definition of crowd pleasing, and he has given us some of the most violent knockouts in recent memory. Compare his official HBO highlight reel to those of other top fighters, and you get the picture. He has one loss, to the flaky but very talented Kermit Cintron. It’s too bad that “El Perro,” encountered that earlier Cintron, and not the one who likes to fly out of the ring; and it’s also too bad that he faced him so early in his career, when he wasn’t even fifteen fights deep into the game.