By Dave Lahr: Top Rank promoter 78-year-old Bob Arum was planning on putting unbeaten Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) against his number #1 fighter Manny Pacquiao for a big money fight within a couple of bouts. All of that will never happen now that Valero has committed suicide while in jail in Venezuela. We’ll never know what Valero could have done with his boxing career. In an article at Reuters, Arum said “I was grooming him [Valero] as a future opponent for Manny Pacquiao. That would have been a sensational fight.”
Edwin Valero
Arum not surprised Valero committed suicide – News
By Jim Dower: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum isn’t surprised that former WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) committed suicide. According to an article from Michael Marley of Examiner.com, Arum had this to say about Valero’s suicide: “I was shocked, really, shocked, when he [Valero] murdered the wife. But I was not shocked to hear this morning that he killed himself.
Edwin Valero commits suicide
Edwin Valero has been found dead in his jail cell in Caracas, Venezuela early this morning, apparently committing suicide with his own clothes. Valero was arrested for killing his wife Jennifer Vierayesterday. It’s unclear why the 28-year-old Valero wasn’t on suicide watch, as this is something that is often done when a person has killed a family member and the prison authorities have a good reason to think that they may harm themselves. Valero was reportedly found by another inmate at the prison.
Edwin Valero: Shades of Carlos Monzon
By Armando Paz: The sport of boxing unfortunately mirrors society in many ways. We recently found out that Joe Calzaghe had admitted to cocaine use a problem that plagued former great champions as Aaron Pryor and Sugar Ray Leonard when they retired. There have been boxers with alcohol and gambling addictions as well. But the issue of Domestic Abuse is one that is back to the spotlight in boxing with the murder chargers that have been filed against Edwin Valero (27-0 27 KO’s) in Valencia, Venezuela for allegedly murdering his wife in a hotel.
Edwin Valero arrested for murder of his wife – News
By Eric Thomas: According to Fight News, World Boxing Council lightweight champion Edwin Valero (27-0, 27 KO’s) has been arrested earlier on Sunday for the suspicion of murdering his 24-year-old wife Jennifer Viera de Valero. Her body was discovered in a hotel room in Valencia with multiple stab wounds. Valero was shortly thereafter arrested by the Carabobo State Police for suspicion of murder.
Boxing Musings – Dirrell and Valero
By Francisco Hernandez: The Super Six World Boxing Classic continues to create excitement. The fighters involved are third rate boxers at best, but are superb athletes; they can deliver twelve rounds of action, are fun to watch.
One thing that we can learn from one of these fighters –Arthur Abraham- is how to stop a cheater –Arthur Dirrell. Out of the “Super Six” (I don’t know why they call them “Super”) Dirrell is the most defensively gifted. Yet Dirrell has an annoying strategy of going to his knees when the going gets tough and leather gets dangerously close to his chin.
Edwin Valero: Young Pacquiao or Mini Mayorga?
By Ryan Dunn: With 27 knockouts in 27 wins and 0 defeats, Edwin Valero is nothing if not one of the most exciting young prospects in boxing today. His first 18 fights were first round knockouts, and he is growing with every fight. What began as a relentless, two-fisted attack has evolved into a relentless, two-fisted attack with some improved defense and an improving jab. So what to make of this cultish figure?
Edwin Valero: Boxing’s New #1 Threat
By Michael Feliciano: In the wake of Edwin Valero’s knockout win over Antonio Demarco (23-2, 17 KOs) last month on February 6 which brought him to an incredible record of (28-0, 28 KOs), it is easy to assume that only blockbuster fights against caliber fighters lie ahead for him. However, the Venezuelan native may soon instead find himself begging boxers to join him in the ring. He has already called out Juan Manuel Marquez (50-5, 37 KOs) and boxing’s new golden boy Manny Pacquiao (50-3, 38 KOs) but I don’t think anyone really expects either of these fights to take place. A fight with Valero is just too risky for established pugilists like them.
There has to be a Valero-Soto fight
By Liam Fitzgerald: Last Saturday Humberto Soto won the WBC Lightweight belt with a unanimous decision over ex-champion David Diaz. The belt had only weeks ago been defended by the Venezuelan Edwin Valero who then decided to vacate it in order to move up in weight.
Now, Soto has a defence lined up on the under card of the Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto fight on the 5th June against the unbeaten Anthony Peterson. Provided he got through the fight as the champion still, I couldn’t think of a better match up than against the man who actually vacated it in the first place.
Options for Pacquiao’s next fight: Valero, Margarito and Marquez
By Jim Dower: According to the LA Times, World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s promotional team Top Rank is looking to put Pacquiao in with one of the following fighters in his next fight: Edwin Valero, Antonio Margarito or Juan Manuel Marquez. They also have mild hope that undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. will come around to the negotiating table, but no one is counting on that happening. For Mayweather to fight Pacquiao, he will probably have to drop his desire to have Pacquiao take the Olympic style random blood tests that Mayweather has been insisting on.