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The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas is absolutely buzzing with energy in anticipation of Saturday nights 3 world championship boxing matches put on by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. What is likely to be fight card of the year will be shown in homes around the world on HBO pay-per-view television.
The main event will feature Houston’s Rocky Juarez(25-2, 18KO’s) once again challenging for Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera’s WBC Super Featherweight Title. The two went at it in a closely contested battle back in May with the younger Juarez coming on at the end to initially have the bout announced as a draw. An error was later found in the scoring and Juarez was told about 20 minutes later that Barrera had retained his title with a split decision victory.
Ever the sportsman and true champion, Barrera(62-4,42KO’s) quickly granted Juarez a rematch to settle their controversial first encounter. Juarez will look to get off to a faster start this time and truly test to see if Barrera’s years of thrilling ring wars has finally caught up with him.
Marco Antonio Barrera = 130
Rocky Juarez = 129
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In the first co-main event feature, WBO Bantamweight Champion Jhonny Gonzalez will move up in weight to challenge WBC Super Bantamweight Champion Israel Vazquez. With a combined 57 KO’s in 80 fights, both men will bring dangerous punching power into the ring to keep fans at th edge of their seats.
Israel Vazquez = 122
Jhonny Gonzalez = 121
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The second co-main event features speedy Dominican Joan Guzman (25-0, 17KO’s) challenging Argentinian Jorge Rodrigo Barrios(46-2-1,33KO’s) for the rights to the WBO Super Featherweight Title. Only Guzman can obtain the belt with a victory as Barrios was stripped
of his title for failing to make the super featherweight limit of 130 pounds, coming in a pound and a half over.
Jorge Barrios = 131.5
Joan Guzman = 129
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Contact Mark DeSisto: bostonsmarkd@yahoo.com
