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Linares plans on wrecking Crolla’s run

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By Scott Gilfoid: The HIGHLY talented former three division world champion Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) plans on sending WBA World lightweight champion Anthony “Million Dollar” Crolla (31-4-3, 13 KOs) down to defeat this month in 10 days from now on September 24 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.

Linares, 31, says he’s going to ruin the 29-year-old Crolla’s brief title run as the World Boxing Association 135lb champion, and there is absolutely nothing his fans are going to be able to do about it on the night. Just last year, Linares came over to the UK and whipped Kevin Mitchell in front of his own fans in stopping him in the 10th round in London, and now it’s Crolla’s turn to get some of the same bitter medicine shoved down his throat.

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Crolla says Linares won’t take his WBA strap

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By Scott Gilfoid: Anthony Crolla will be defending his World Boxing Association lightweight title next month against former three division world champion Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) on September 24 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK. Crolla, 29, calls this the arena his home and he doesn’t plan on letting the talented 31-year-old visitor Linares to come into his home and take his WBA strap from him in front of his many fans.

Crolla (31-4-3, 13 KOs) recently successfully defended his WBA title last May in stopping 33-year-old challenger Ismael Barroso in the 7th round in Manchester. It wasn’t a really great performance from Corolla despite him winning the fight. I mean, Crolla won the fight, but only because Barroso punched himself out after five rounds. He was giving

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Anthony Crolla vs. Jorge Linares on September 24

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By Scott Gilfoid: On September 24, WBA World lightweight belt holder Anthony Crolla (31-4-3, 13 KOs) will be taking a very dangerous fight against the 30-year-old WBC lightweight Champions in Recess at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK. The World Boxing Council has put the WBC Diamond lightweight title up for grabs for the Linares vs. Crolla fight.

The winner of the fight must fight WBC lightweight champion Dejan Zlaticanin next if they want to fight for that belt. It’s going to be interesting to see if Crolla opts to make that move if he can somehow get past Linares on September 24. Does Crolla face Zlaticanin or does he instead stay content with being the WBA lightweight champion.

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Crolla targeting Linares, not Flanagan

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crolla53By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like WBA lightweight champion Anthony Crolla (31-4-3, 13 KOs) could wind up facing WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KO) next rather than the knockout artist WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan. Crolla is coming off of a 7th round knockout win over Ismael Barroso (19-1-2, 18 KOs) last Saturday night at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.

For some reason, Crolla’s trainer Joe Gallagher doesn’t want the Crolla-Flanagan fight this year. Gallagher says Flanagan isn’t well known and it’s too early to make that fight. However, Flanagan is VERY well known, and it just seems like a dreadful match-up for Crolla. Linares, 30, is a decent champion, but he’s shown himself to be human in the past in knockout losses to Antonio DeMarco, Sergio Thompson and Juan Carlos Salgado.

Linares is one of those fighters that can either look really good or look horrible in coming apart at the seams in getting knocked out. Linares’ career has taken a recent upsurge in knockout wins over Kevin Mitchell and Ivan Cano.

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Jorge Linares suffers hand injury, Dejan Zlaticanin fight cancelled

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mitchell33By Allan Fox: WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) suffered a broken right hand earlier this week in training camp for his proposed April title defense against unbeaten #1 WBC Dejan Zlaticanin (21-0, 14 KOs). The injury was confirmed by Linares’ promoters at Golden Boy Promotions.

It’s unfortunate the injury occurred because it was a fight that would have been interesting for the U.S audience, as it would have been televised on Showtime Boxing.

It’s unclear what’s going to happen now. It’ll be up to the World Boxing Council to make a decision. Linares could wind up being given the designation of WBC “Champion in Recess,” which is something the WBC likes to do with their injured champions.

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Linares-Zlaticanin purse bid cancelled

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linares234By Dan Ambrose: Today’s purse bid for the Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) vs. Dejan Zlaticanin (21-0, 14 KOs) fight has reportedly been cancelled, according to the World Boxing Council. Linares’ promoters at Golden Boy and Zlaticanin’s promoters at Dibella Entertainment have reached an agreement to terms for the fight.

The information about when the Linares vs. Zlaticanin fight will take place and where will be announced shortly.

Zlaticanin, 31, is ranked #1 by the WBC, and he’s recently picked up three impressive victories over Ivan Redkach, Alex Bone and Ricky Burns in his last three fights to earn the No.1 spot in the WBC’s rankings.

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Crolla to face Linares or Barroso next

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By Scott Gilfoid: WBA World lightweight champion Anthony Crolla (30-4-3, 12 KOs) has two difficult possible opponents for his next fight in February or March at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK. Crolla, 29, could be facing his mandatory challenger interim WBA champion Ismael Barroso (19-0-2, 18 KOs) or WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) in a unification fight.

The unification fight against Linares will be the one they will reportedly attempt to make first. While they’re not coming out directly and saying it, they appear to see the 30-year-old Linares as the easier of the two difficult options.

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Linares annihilates Cano – results

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By Jim Dower: WBC lightweight champ Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) destroyed the ridiculously over-matched #10 WBC fringe contender Ivan Cano (23-7-2, 15 KOs) by a 4th round knockout on Saturday night to retain his World Boxing Council 135lb title at the Poliedro in Caracas, Venezuela.

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Alfredo Angulo to fight on August 29th on Santa Cruz vs. Mares card

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angulo78 - CopyBy Dan Ambrose: 33-year-old former world title challenger Alfredo Angulo (23-5, 19 KOs) has been added to the Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares card on August 29th on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Angulo will be fighting a still to be determined opponent in the 168lb division.

Angulo has lost 3 out of his last 4 fights, and has looked incredibly bad. Angulo won his last fight against Delray Raines by a 5th round knockout last June at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

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Kevin Mitchell could get rematch with Linares on October 17th

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mitchell455(Photo credit: Sumio Yamada) By Scott Gilfoid: After getting stopped in the 10th round last May in a fight against WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares (39-3, 26 KOs), #3 WBC Kevin Mitchell (39-3, 29 KOs) is poised to get yet another shot at the title in a rematch against Linares on October 17th in Venezuela.

It’ll depend on how things go with the July 18th fight between challenger Anthony Crolla and WBA lightweight champion Darleys Perez. If Perez wins that fight, then Linares will likely face Perez in a unification bout. If Crolla wins, then Linares and Mitchell would wind up facing each other again.

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