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During Friday and Saturday, Las Vegas will see in action seven boxers who have been world champions or currently own the World Boxing Association black and gold championship.
The first to get into the ring, will the featherweight Interim champion Jesus Cuellar from Argentina, who will fight Rico Ramos, who was bantamweight world champion during 2011-2012.
Cuellar will defend for the second time the championship he won on August 23, 2013, in New York. Has a record 23-1, 18 KO´s.
Ramos was super bantamweight champion after his knock out of Akifumi Shimoda in 2011, when he was losing the fight.
That will be the opening of the title bouts this weekend.
On Saturday, the action will be in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas where five fighters are part of the WBA history.
Adrien Broner reappearsafter he lost the WBA welterweight championship he owned from June 22 to December 14, 2013, when he lost for the first time in his career after 27 victories. This weekend he will fight Carlos Molina, in another division.
Then is the turn of 140 lb former champion, Amir Khan from England, who was the WBA world champion between 2009 and 2011.
This weekend Khan will face another former world champion, Luis Collazo, who dominated the welterweight division between 2005 and 2006. At present, Collazo is the 147 lb International World champion and they both seek to win the elimination fight.
Finally, the main fight of the night will be between Floyd Mayweather Jr, WBA super welterweight super world champion and Marcos Maidana, WBA welterweight world champion.
This will be a unification fight, the American has the WBC 147 lb championship belt.
“He [Maidana] is a very solid champion with 80% KO’s in his career and I cannot overlook at him,” said Floyd Mayweather Jr.
“I am not afraid of him [Mayweather], nothing scares me,” said Marcos René Maidana.
Today, the entire World Boxing Association Family makes public recognition to those tireless sport fighters, our boxers, who never dismay in their quest for their goal: being a world champion.
Today, we praise all the goals achieved through the social struggle, with the firm purpose to a better quality life, personal progress and especially for making every day a better world.
We salute those men and women who work day in day out, no matter holiday or weekend for the rest of the people, to train, sweat and strive to achieve their most prized goal. .
Today, we recognize their effort and thank them because they give their best every day.
