Orlando Salido

Orlando Salido to fight on April 29

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By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) will be fighting in two months from now on April 29 against an opponent still to be determined. Salido, 36, is interested in facing former WBC super featherweight champion Takashi Miura in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Miura, who is coming off of an impressive 12th round knockout win over Miguel “Mickey” Roman on January 28. Salido wanted to fight a rematch against Francisco Vargas, but he was stopped in the 11th round on January 28 by Miguel Berchelt.

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Salido waiting for rematch against Francisco Vargas

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By Jeff Aranow: Earlier this week, Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) reportedly turned down a rematch against WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko. Salido, 36, instead wants a rematch against WBC super featherweight champion Francisco Vargas (23-0-2, 17 KOs) this year. Vargas has a title defense scheduled for January 28 against #7 WBC Miguel Berchelt (30-1, 27 KOs) at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California.

Salido and the 32-year-old Vargas fought to a controversial 12 ound draw last June at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Salido won the fight in the eyes of many boxing fans, but the judges scored it 115-113 for Vargas, and 114-114, 114-114 even.

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Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Orlando Salido not happening

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By Chris Williams: Former two division world champion Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) won’t be facing WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1, 5 KOs) in a rematch despite the interest from the Ukrainian fighter and his promoter Bob Arum.

Salido, 36, doesn’t like the idea of fighting someone that is going to be running and holding all night long, which is what Lomachenko did all night in their previous encounter two years ago in 2014, Salido beat Lomachenko by a 12 round split decision in a fight for the vacant WBO World featherweight title.

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Juan Manuel Lopez wants Salido or Mares next

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By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Juan Manuel Lopez (35-5, 32 KOs) came out of retirement last Saturday night to beat former WBO super bantamweight champion Wilfredo Vasquez Jr. (24-7-1, 19 KOs) by an 11th round knockout at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Orlando Salido vs. Takashi Miura on December 17

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By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) will be facing former WBC super featherweight champion Takashi Miura (30-3-2, 23 KOs) on December 17 on HBO at The Forum in Inglewood, California. This is good news. It means there could be three excellent fights coming up with the Salido-Miura fight on December 17, Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Nicholas Walters fight on November 26, and potentially Gennady “GGG” Golovkin vs. Daniel Jacobs on December 10. Those are all fights on HBO Boxing. It’s great stuff.

Salido hasn’t won a fight in two years since his 11th round stoppage win over Terdsak Kokietgym in September 2014.

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Salido vs. Lomachenko rematch unlikely

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By Chris Williams: The negotiations between the managers for WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomahenko and Orlando Salido reportedly are not going well at this time. Salido’s management isn’t happy with the money that was offered to them for the fight and is thinking of going in another direction towards a fight against Takashi Miura. Salido was given a take it or leave it offer by Lomachenko’s management, according the LA Times. That’s not going to work to make the fight happen. Salido wants to be well paid for a rematch against Lomachenko, and if that’s not going to happen, then he’s going to be moving on.

Salido, 35, reportedly is being offered $500,000 for the fight against Lomachenko. The Ukrainian fighter will be making between $850,000 and $1 million. Lomachenko could wind up making twice the amount that Salido makes in the fight, and that clearly doesn’t sit right with him or his manager Sean Gibbons.

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Salido: Canelo isn’t a superstar, he’s protected

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By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Orlando Salido doesn’t believe that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) is a true superstar, because he feels that the 26-year-old is being protected from facing the best. In Salido’s mind, fighters that are the best in boxing are the ones that are willing to take on the very best no matter what the risks involved. Salido doesn’t see that happening with Canelo. Salido thinks that Canelo will lose to unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) if the two of them ever face each other in the future.

At this point, it’s unknown if they were ever will, because Canelo opted not to fight Triple G in 2016, and he didn’t fight him in 2015 either. If Canelo doesn’t face Golovkin in 2017, it would be the third straight year where he’s not faced him.

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Lomachenko vs. Salido 2 in Oct. or Nov

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By Allan Fox: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is planning on setting up a rematch between WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KOs) and 35-year-old former two division world champion Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) for October or November of this year.

This would be a strategic move by Arum in making the Lomachenko vs. Salido rematch rather than putting Salido back in with WBC super featherweight champion Francisco Vargas (23-0-2, 17 KOs), who Salido fought to a 12 round draw against on June 4 in a ‘Fight of the Year’ candidate.

If you were to pool the boxing fans from all around the United States in which fight they would prefer to see, Vargas vs. Salido 2 or Lomachenko vs. Salido 2, it’s likely that the overwhelming response from the fans would be the Vargas-Salido 2 fight.

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Salido: It’s not personal for me with Lomachenko

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By Chris Williams: For newly crowned WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KOs) his issues he has with Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) are personal because he whipped him two years ago and made him look bad in their fight in 2014. The desire to avenge that loss burns inside the 28-year-old Lomachenko, causing him to want to want a second fight against the 35-year-old Salido. However, the feeling isn’t mutual for Salido, because he already beat the best Lomachenko there can ever be two years ago, and there’s no reason to go down that beaten track again.

It’s a reverse move on Salido’s part if he were to go backwards with his career and fight Lomachenko again, because Salido is now beyond that fight and doesn’t need to live in the past by fighting guys he already dominated in the past.

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Martinez vs. Lomachenko: Vasyl wants Salido rematch

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By Chris Williams: Newly crowned WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KOs) says he wants a rematch against Orlando Salido, the only fighter to beat him in the pro ranks. It’s now up to Lomachenko’s promoters at Top Rank and to a certain extent HBO to see if he can lure the 35-year-old Salido into a second fight with him.

Lomachenko defeated WBO 130lb champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-3-3, 17 KOs) by a 5th round knockout last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. The victory for Lomachenko, 28, gave him his second division world title. He’ now expected to hold onto the WBO super featherweight belt and give up his WBO featherweight title. He can’t keep both.

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