By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Oscar Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs) will be defending his WBO World featherweight title on March 10 against an opponent still to be decided at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The 26-year-old Valdez’s fight will be televised live on ESPN.
By Jeff Aranow: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is said to be interested in matching WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs) against former 2 division belt holder Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) in early 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada or Texas.
By Jeff Aranow: Showing the same chin problems, he had in his previous fight, WBO World featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs) had to get up off the canvas to defeat #4 WBO rated Genesis Servania (29-1, 12 KOs) by an unimpressive 12 round unanimous decision on Friday night on ESPN Boxing from the Tucson Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona.
By Jim Dower: WBO World featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (22-0, 19 KOs) weighed in at 125.8 pounds for his fight on ESPN this Friday night against unbeaten #4 WBO contender Genesis Servania (29-0, 12 KOs) at the Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona. The 26-year-old Servania weighed in at 125.4 lbs.
By Rob MaClean: Shawn Porter (27, 2, 1, 17Ko’s) managed to pull off an impressive TKO of Andre Berto (31, 5, 24Ko’s) in Brooklyn, New York, by scoring a TKO victory in round 9. In what was an extremely entertaining slug fest between two welterweights it was the wrecking ball that is Shawn Porter who offered too much for Andre Berto this evening.
By Chris Williams: Top Rank’s “Three amigos,” as promoter Bob Arum calls them, Oscar Valdez, Gilberto Ramirez and Jessie Magdaleno, all were victorious on Saturday night in winning their fights on pay-per-view from the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Valdez (22-0, 19 KOs) successfully defended his WBO featherweight title in beating his #1 WBO challenger Miguel Marriaga (25-2, 21 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision.
By Chris Williams: WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (21-0, 19 KOs), WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto Ramirez and WBO super bantamweight champion Jessie Magdaleno all weighed in successfully for their matches this Saturday night on Top Rank pay-per-view at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. All three Top Rank fighters hold the World Boxing Organization straps. You can add Manny Pacquiao to the list of Top Rank fighters that hold a WBO title, as he holds the WBO welterweight title.
Let the intrigue begin. Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) world champions ÓSCAR VALDEZ, the ESPN Deportes Mexican Fighter of the Year, GILBERTO “Zurdo” RAMIREZ, the Premios Univision Deportes Fighter of the Year, and JESSIE MAGDALENO, hosted a packed Los Angeles area Media Workout today at Manifico Gym. The three gladiators are in deep training for their respective title defenses which will take place Next Saturday! April 22, live on pay-per-view, from StubHub Center. Magdaleno, who is making the first defense of the title he won off the legendary Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire revealed that his team has spied Donaire in the gym working with Adeilson Dos Santos, Magdaleno’s opponent. Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but it’s one Magdaleno intends to serve up to the Dos Santos/Donaire team using two red-hot leather utensils.
By Bill Dwyre: Some kings wear easily the crown. Or, in the case of boxing, the title belt.
ÓSCAR VALDEZ, a Mexican marvel, is doing exactly that these days. And he has had to be a quick learner.
By Eric Baldwin: In an incredibly dominant performance, undefeated #1 WBO featherweight Oscar Valdez (21-0, 18 KOs) totally obliterated a badly over-matched Matias Carlos Adrian Rueda (26-1, 23 KOs) in stopping him in the 2nd round to capture the vacant WBO featherweight title on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fighting in the co-feature bout on the Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol card on HBO pay-per-view, Valdez, 25, dropped the over-matched 28-year-old Argentinian Rueda two times in the 2nd round with hard shots to the midsection. The fight was halted by referee Russell Mora. The time of the stoppage was at 2:18 of the round.