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By Jeff Aranow: Unbeaten Artem Dalakian (16-0, 11 KOs) deeated former 2 division world champion Brian ‘The Hawaiian Punch’ Viloria (38-6, 23 KOs) by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision to win the vacant WBA World flyweight title on Saturday night at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
By Jim Dower: Srisaket Sor Rungvisai’s is getting a purse $250,000 purse for Saturday’s SuperFly2 card for his title defense against Juan Francisco Estrada on HBO Boxing at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Estrada’s purse is $100,000 for the fight.
By Jim Dower: Srisaket Sor Rungvisai weighed in at 114.8 pounds on Friday afternoon for his title defense of WBC super flyweight belt against challenger Juan Francisco Estrada on Saturday night at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
By Tim Royner: WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai vs. Juan Francisco Estrada and Carlos Cuadras vs. McWilliams Arroyo will be battling it out in 27 days from now on the SuperFly 2 card on February 24 at the Forum in Inglewood, California. These 2 fights will be televised on HBO Boxing.
Four-time world champion in two divisions and #2 ranked BRIAN “The Hawaiian Punch” VILORIA, (38-5, 22 KO’s) of Los Angeles, CA via Waipahu, Hawaii will challenge undefeated and #1 ranked ARTEM DALAKIAN, (15-0, 11 KO’s), of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine for the vacant WBA Flyweight World Title taking place prior to the HBO Boxing triple header telecast at SUPERFLY 2 set for Saturday February 24, 2018, at the Forum in Los Angeles, CA, it was announced today by TOM LOEFFLER of 360 Promotions.
By Allan Fox: Tomorrow night, HBO will be televising the replay of the interesting if not exciting middleweight fight between WBA middleweight champ Gennady Golovkin and IBF champ David Lemieux, as well as the flyweight contest between WBC champion Roman Gonzalez and Brian Viloria.
The telecast starts @ 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT. The replay will come before the HBO Championship Boxing fight between WBO 140lb champion Terence Crawford and Dierry Jean from the Centurylink Arena in Omaha, Nebraska.
By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin showed fully last Saturday night that there is a huge difference in talent between him and WBC flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez. The two of them fought on the same card in front of a packed Madison Square Garden in New York.
While Golovkin boxed beautifully in pounding out an impressive 8th round knockout win over IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux in the feature bout on the card, Gonzalez had to struggle to defeat #2 WBC challenger Brian Viloria by a 9th round knockout in the co-feature bout. Gonzalez was hit often, and hurt in the 9th round from a body shot by Viloria.
By Tim Fletcher: IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) will be getting the lion’s share of the money this Saturday night for his fight against IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs).
Golovkin’s purse for this Saturday will be a career high of $2 million. Lemieux, 26, isn’t that far behind in picking up $1.5 million. It’s unclear if the Canadian money he gets is included in his purse. If not, then Lemieux will likely wind up with more money than Golovkin for their fight on HBO pay-per-view at Madison Square Garden.
By Tim Fletcher: #2 WBC Brian Viloria (36-4, 22 KOs) is ready to face WBC flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KOs) on Saturday night, and he feels confident that he’ll take his titles from him in their fight on HBO PPV from Madison Square Garden in New York.
Viloria, 34, is a considerable underdog in this fight, so he’s going to need to raise his game considerably for him to take Gonzalez’s titles from him. Viloria has a small 4-fight winning streak since his loss to Juan Francisco Estrada in 2013, but that probably won’t help him in this case because he’s way over his head. Viloria’s last four fights were against weak opposition, and that’s enabled him to keep winning.