Barrera-Juarez undercard.

Undercard Loaded For Barrera-Juarez

Oscar De La Hoya, President of Golden Boy Promotions, took time today to officially announce, on a worldwide teleconference, the star-studded undercard that will support the highly anticipated championship rematch between Marco Antonio Barrera and Rocky Juarez on Saturday, September 16 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada and broadcast live on HBO Pay-Per-View.

"I couldn't let the rest of the summer go by without talking about this amazing card we have on September 16," said De La Hoya. "When we were putting this show together, we knew we had a great main event in the rematch between Barrera and Juarez, but we also aimed to make this a complete show for the fans that support this sport."

The undercard will be headlined by a WBO world junior lightweight title fight between champion Jorge Rodrigo Barrios (46-2-1, 33 KOs) battling undefeated challenger Joan Guzman (25-0, 17 KOs), and a WBC world super bantamweight championship bout between champion Israel Vazquez (40-3, 29 KOs) and his challenger, WBO bantamweight king Jhonny Gonzalez (33-4, 28 KOs).

"We added not only one more title fight, but two of them, and both bouts—Barrios-Guzman and Gonzalez-Vazquez—could be main events in their own right," continued the Golden Boy. "Champion after champion, champion against champion, the best fighting the best" continued De La Hoya. "This is how strong the card is and one that has the potential to produce three 'Fight of The Year' candidates."

Among the main event and two co-features, four of the combatants—Barrera, Barrios, Vazquez and Gonzalez—are reigning champions and Guzman is a former champion who only relinquished his title after moving up in weight. In addition, the four undercard fighters are in the prime of their careers and represent the best and most popular fighters today in their respective latino-based countries.

Barrios, who hails from Argentina is considered the country's #1 fighter and a significant win for him could open many doors, including a move up in weight to revenge his loss to Brazil's Acelino Freitas. For Joan Guzman, also recognized as the #1 fighter is his Dominican Republic homeland, a win would mean bigger fights and a dominant position in the junior lightweight division. The stakes are extremely high as the winner of the bout could potentially face the winner of the main event between Barrera and Juarez.

For Vazquez and Gonzalez, nothing could be more important than a win by a Mexican on Mexican Independence Day. Vazquez, who became the 100th Mexican champion with his first world title on March 25, 2004, is the Ring Magazine champion and also hailed by his countrymen as the heir apparent to the popularity throne of Marco Antonio Barrera. For Gonzalez, the bantamweight champion who is moving up in weight to face Vazquez, a victory on September 16, will make him the king of the ring and his popularity index meter will soar to new heights.

"I am extremely proud of Eric Gomez, our matchmaker, for pulling this show together when many doubted it could get done," added De La Hoya. "I am sure all of boxing will be thankful afterwards for the tremendous night of action we are about to witness. This show is the true indicator of things to come from Golden Boy Promotions."

Promoted by Golden Boy Promotions, in association with Main Events, tickets—priced at $350, $250, $175, and $75—are on sale and available at the MGM Grand Garden Arena box office and will be sold at all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations (Tower Records/WOW!, Smith's Food and Drug Centers, Robinsons-May stores and Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are limited to eight ( per person. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at (702) 474-4000. Tickets also will be available for purchase at www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com .

The Barrera vs. Juarez II pay-per-view telecast, beginning at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST, has a suggested retail price of $44.95, will be distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View and will be available to more than 56 million pay-per-view homes. HBO Pay-Per-View is the leading supplier of event programming to the pay-per-view industry. For your daily Barrera vs. Juarez II fight week updates, log onto www.HBO.com.

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I wouldn't want to miss this. :lickish:

Great read brother,CC and for a sinlge card,that is best one I have seen! Who you backing bro?

Oscar announces "best card!'
By Karl Freitag
fightnews.com

Promoter Oscar De La Hoya today called his September 16 pay-per-view event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, "the best fight card in the last twenty years." The main event features WBC super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera (62-4, 42 KOs) vs. Ricardo Juarez (25-2, 18 KOs) in a rematch of their battle earlier this year. The undercard includes WBO junior lightweight Jorge Barrios (46-2-1, 33 KOs) taking on unbeaten former WBO 122lb world champion Joan Guzman (25-0, 17 KOs), WBC super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez (40-3, 29 KOs) defending against WBO bantamweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez (33-4, 28 KOs) in a battle of champions, unbeaten junior featherweight bomber Rey Bautista (20-0, 15 KOs) versus Giovanni Andrade (51-9, 42 KOs), plus lightweight Jorge Paez Jr. vs TBA.

i'm picking those guys. 8)

Agreed on all those except Guzman,I favour Barrios.

Hey Rey"Boom Boom" is gonna fight huh! , I'm picking him, MAB, Guzman and Israel Vazquez

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Great read brother,CC and for a sinlge card,that is best one I have seen! Who you backing bro?

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this is great...I knew ODLH would put together some great cards in his day but so soon?! this is a great sign of things to come...Now about PBF......what's up ODLH?!?!

I don't think Oscar knows what he is going to do with the PBF fight and I believe the longer he takes deciding,the lower his chances of victory are..I don't understand the thinking behind waiting soooo long to make up your mind. He's just beaten Mayorga,he's fresh and then he waits a years,gets rusty again!!!

Guzman is a bloody good fighter!

Thats a hell of a card...If Golden Boy Productions keep putting on cards of that type quality we will have a new King Of promoters

Juarez by KO, if it comes down to decision ODL knows what to do


Barrios will KO Guzman in early rounds and ends the dirty bastards career


Gonzalez will win Majority decision


Bautista will have a cut in early rounds and fight goes to scorecard, Bautista being ODL's boy will get the decision







I've seen it before............. 8)

Best card overall in a long long time. I'm surprised its not getting more attention.

The only ones right off hand that I could think of that were as good maybe was the Morales-Pac 1 card with Arce-Hussein 1, and the Corrales-Castillo 2 card with Arce-Hussein 2 but that one ended up being dissapointing with the early KO's.

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Great read brother,CC and for a sinlge card,that is best one I have seen! Who you backing bro?

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I agree that is probably the best fight card of the year but Sept 2nd is the best night for boxing,

James Toney vs Sam Peter

Arthur Abraham vs Edison Miranda

Clinton Woods vs Glen Johnson.


Man I'm creaming just think about this one :skiing: