Rocky Martinez vs. Orlando Salido 3 on February 20th

12/27/2015 by Boxing News

Image: Rocky Martinez vs. Orlando Salido 3 on February 20th By Dan Ambrose: WBO super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-2-3, 17 KOs) will be defending his WBO title in a third fight against 35-year-old #2 WBO Orlando Salido (43-13-3, 30 KOs) on February 20th at a still to be determined venue.

Salido and Martinez fought to a highly controversial 12 round draw on September 12th of this year on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Andre Berto card from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Salido appeared to win the fight in the eyes of many boxing fans, but the three judges scored the fight 115-113 for Salido, 115-113 for Martinez, and 114-114.

Roman Martinez to face Orlando Salido in early 2016

11/02/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Organization has approved a third fight between WBO World super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-2-3, 17 KOs) and 34-year-old Orlando Salido (42-13-3, 29 KOs) for early 2016, according to Dan Rafael.

The WBO approved the fight at their recent convention a week ago in Orlando, Salido. The two fighters fought to a controversial 12 round draw on September 12th this year on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto fight card on Showtime PPV from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Salido appeared to do more than enough to deserve the decision, but the judges’ scored the fight 115-113 for Salido, 115-113 for Martinez and 114-114 even.

Mayweather vs. Berto to premier on Showtime this Saturday

09/17/2015 by Boxing News

By Chris Williams: Boxing fans are in for a real treat this Saturday night with Floyd Mayweather Jr’s one-sided masterpiece victory over the hungry 32-year-old Andre Berto being replayed on Showtime on 9/18 starting at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. This is the last chance that fans will get to see their star Mayweather in action because he’s now retiring from the sport that he loves after 19 years as a pro.

Mayweather has made a fortune in the ring in bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars. Mayweather isn’t retiring because he’s a rich man like we see other fighters doing after they hit it big.

Orlando Salido wants rematch with Roman Martinez

09/14/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: Former world champion Orlando Salido (42-13-3, 29 KOs) still is unhappy about his fight against WBO super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-2-3, 17 KOs) being scored a 12 round draw last Saturday night in their rematch on Showtime pay-per-view at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The 34-year-old Salido felt that he clearly won enough rounds against the 32-year-old Martinez, who took a terrible beating from Salido in this fight and yet was still given a 12 round draw by the judges.

Martinez-Salido battle to controversial draw

09/13/2015 by Boxing News

In the second of two world title fights on the pay-per-view undercard, Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-2-3, 17 KOs) retained his WBO Junior Lightweight title with a thrilling 12-round majority draw in a rematch against four-time world champion Orlando “Siri” Salido (42-13-3, 29 KOs).

Picking up where they left off when they fought in a Fight of the Year candidate last April, won by Martinez, both fighters exchanged punches for 36 minutes of ferocious action. Each went down in the third round. At the end of a slugfest, in which more than 1,700 punches were thrown, one judge scored it for Martinez (115-113), one had Salido (115-113) in front and the other called it even (114-114).

Mayweather decisions Berto; Badou beats Groves

09/13/201509/12/2015 by Boxing News

By Tim Fletcher: Unbeaten WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) easily beat a sluggish and shot looking Andre Berto (30-4, 23 KOs) by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night on the Showtime pay-per-view card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The final judges’ scores were 117-111, 118-110 and 120-108.

Jack – Groves, Martinez – Salido & Gonzalez – Oquendo quotes

09/11/201509/11/2015 by Boxing News

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (Sept. 10, 2015) – The fighters who will appear on the stacked, action-packed “HIGH STAKES: Mayweather vs. Berto” undercard this Saturday, September 12 live on SHOWTIME PPV (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) from the MGM Grand Garden Arena took part in their final press conference Thursday at MGM Grand.

In the three pay-per-view fights preceding Saturday’s main event between Floyd “Money” Mayweather (48-0, 26 KOs) and Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KOs), Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-2-2, 17 KOs) will defend his WBO Junior Lightweight Title in a rematch against four-time world champion Orlando “Siri” Salido (42-13-2, 29 KOs), Badou Jack “The Ripper” (19-1-1, 12 KOs) will make the first defense of his WBC Super Middleweight World Title against mandatory challenger “Saint” George Groves (21-2, 16 KOs) and former three-time world champion and Mexican power-puncher Jhonny Gonzalez (58-9, 49 KOs) will be opposed by Puerto Rico’s Jonathan “Polvo” Oquendo (25-4, 16 KOs) in a 10-round 130-pound match.

Roman Martinez to bring war to Orlando Salido

09/10/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: WBO super featherweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez (29-2-2, 17 KOs) plans on taking the fight to #3 WBO challenger Orlando “Siri” Salido (42-13-2, 29 KOs) this Saturday night in their rematch at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Martinez, 32, had a great deal of success in slugging with the 34-year-old Salido in their fight last April in beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision by the scores of 114-111, 115-110 and 116-109.

ORLANDO SALIDO TRAINS IN PUERTO RICO FOR “THE WAR”, APRIL 11 AT THE COLISEO DE PUERTO RICO

04/07/2015 by Boxing News

GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO- Orlando “Siri” Salido, the WBO junior lightweight champion trained today for the media in Puerto Rico four days before his training fight against former world champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez on “The War”, that will take place on Saturday, April 11, at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a presentation of PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) in association with Promociones Zanfer, and broadcast on “Pay Per View” in Puerto Rico, United States and Canada for all Cable TV and Satellite systems.

Orlando Salido defends WBO 130lb title vs. Roman Martinez on Saturday

04/07/2015 by Boxing News

salido2 by Robert Earle Stanton – Author of “Selling the Pain” – For a guy that started in 1996 and lost his first fight to hold a record of 6-5-1 by 1998 to take a break of around two years to go on and beat 44-3-1 Regilio Tuur to then beat 28-4-1 Alfred Kotey, getting up off the canvas to do so, it would seem he would get his dream in a shot for the WBA/IBF featherweight titles in ’04 yet lose a UD to 42-2-1 Juan Manuel Marquez. That was not the end.

He would come off that fight with a big win over Cesar Soto in ’05 and in ’06 he would win the IBF featherweight title over 19-1-1 Robert Guerrero by UD yet test positive for steroids and it would be turned into a NO CONTEST.