Boxing schedule for the month of January 2013

New year, new fights. Who's going to emerge as the next great thing? Friday Night Fights is back, starting tonight. Best card, imo, Jan 19th -

Jan. 4

At Miami (ESPN2/ESPN Deportes): Rances Barthelemy vs. Arash Usmanee, 12 rounds, Jonathan Gonzalez vs. Derrick Ennis, Yuri Ramanau vs. Jeremy Bryan, Keith Tapia vs. Rafael Valenzuela, Hairon Socarras vs. Josh Boweles, Roberto J. Acevedo vs. Francisco Rios Gil, Radivoje Kalajdzic vs. Grover Young



Jan. 5

At Mexico City: Jesus Silvestre vs. Ganigan Lopez, 10 rounds, junior flyweights; Edgar Puerta vs. Abraham Rodriguez, 12 rounds, junior lightweights



Jan. 11

At Santa Fe, N.M. (ESPN2/ESPN Deportes): John Molina Jr. vs. Dannie Williams, Brandon Gonzalez vs. Don Mouton, Archie Ray Marquez vs. Rynell Griffin, Brandon Holmes vs. Charlie Reyes, Siju Shabazz vs. Mark Lujan, Eduardo Dominquez vs. Mark Cordova, Cecilia Renova vs. Natalie Roy, Arturo Crespin vs. Jeremiah Torres


At Indio, Calif. (Showtime): Ronny Rios vs. Rico Ramos, Daquan Arnett vs. Brandon Quarles, Randy Caballero vs. TBA, Julian Ramirez vs. TBA, Dominic Breazeale vs. TBA, Gerald Washington vs. Razvan Cojanu, Marty Robles vs. Cesar Martinez, Santiago Guevara vs. TBA, 4 rounds


Jan. 12

At Sunrise, Fla. (Fox Deportes/FSN): Johan Perez vs. Steve Forbes, Thomas Williams vs. TBA, Tracy Rollins vs. TBA, 4 rounds, Yudel Johnson vs. TBA, Willie Jones vs. TBA

At Toluca, Mexico: Adrian Hernandez vs. Dirceu Cabarca, 12 rounds, for Hernandez's WBC junior flyweight title



Jan. 13

At New York: Luis Rosa vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior featherweights; Lamar Russ vs. TBA, 8 rounds, middleweights; Yuri Foreman vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights; Delen Parsley vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights; Skender Halili vs. TBA, 4 rounds, welterweights; Eugene Russell vs. TBA, 4 rounds, heavyweights; Louis Cruz vs. TBA, 4 rounds, lightweights; Heather Hardy vs. TBA, 4 rounds, female junior featherweights; Patricia Alcivar vs. TBA, 6 rounds, female flyweights




Jan. 18

At Walsall, England: Frankie Gavin vs. Jason Welborn, 12 rounds, for Gavin's British welterweight title; Martin Gethin vs. Ben Murphy, 12 rounds, for vacant British lightweight title; Chris Keane vs. Shane McPhilbin, Steven Pearce vs. Faheem Khan, Grant Cunningham vs. TBA, Dave Egan vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights; Tom Shaw vs. Mark McKray



Jan. 19

At New York (HBO): Orlando Salido vs. Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia, for Salido's WBO featherweight title; Gennady Golovkin vs. Gabriel Rosado, for Golovkin's WBA middleweight title; Roman "Rocky" Martinez vs. Juan Carlos Burgos, for Martinez's WBO junior lightweight title; Isa Akberbayev vs. TBA, Felix Verdejo vs. TBA, Glen Tapia vs. TBA

At Uncasville, Conn. (NBC Sports Net): Gabriel Campillo vs. Sergey Kovalev, light heavyweights; Elvin Ayala vs. Curtis Stevens, Vladine Biosse vs. TBA, Karl Dargan vs. TBA, Chip Perez vs. Jason Sosa, Nasi Hani vs. Joshua Harris, Shelito Vincent vs. Nydia Feliciano, Jimmy Williams vs. TBA, Edwin Cotto vs. TBA,

At Villahermosa, Mexico (Fox Deportes): Sergio Thompson vs. TBA, Manuel Charr vs. TBA, Juan Pablo Sanchez vs. TBA, Mario Sanchez vs. TBA, Dorley Valente vs. TBA, Kofi Darkwa vs. Augstin Ramirez, Jorge Gallegos vs. Alexis Chi


At Wolverhampton, England: Prizefighter: Welterweights (one-night tournament, all bouts 3 rounds, draw TBA): Glenn Foot, Dale Evans, Chad Gaynor, Nasser Al Harbi, Karl Place; Kal Yafai vs. TBA, 8 rounds, bantamweights



Jan. 25

At Verona, N.Y. (ESPN2/ESPN Deportes): Sergiy Dzinziruk vs. Brian Vera, Miguel Gonzalez vs. Tony Luis, Enrique Collazo vs. TBA, 4 rounds, middleweights

At Huntington, N.Y. (Showtime): Demetrius Andrade vs. Freddy Hernandez, Raymond Serrano vs. Emmanuel Taylor



Jan. 26

At Las Vegas (Showtime): Lucas Matthysse vs. Michael Dallas Jr., for Matthysse's WBC interim junior welterweight title; Selcuk Aydin vs. Jesus Soto Karass, 10 or 12 rounds, welterweights



At Boston: Danny O'Connor vs. Derek Silveira, 10 rounds, welterweights; Ryan Kielczewski vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior lightweight



Jan. 30

At Sydney, Australia: Daniel Geale vs. Anthony Mundine, rematch, 12 rounds, for Geale's IBF middleweight title

Main even was pretty dope too bad the decision was a robbery! Cuban got his ass beat but got the home town gift decision. Smh not a good way to start the year. Teddy Atlas almost blew a gasket he was going mad

Rosado has been working with Bernard Hopkins for some time, said he's learned so much and truly understands the ins & outs of the game. He's won 8 in a row, including wins over Jesus Soto Karass & Sechew Powell. Props to Rosada for taking the fight after Felix Strum turned down GGG (for 2 years as well as after losing to Geale), as did Daniel Geale (who was stripped of his WBA belt as a result), Peter Quillin, N'dam, Dmitry Pirog (injured) and others.


Rosado: Beating Golovkin will make me a star

By Ryan Burton

Junior middleweight contender Gabriel Rosado (21-5) raised
some eyebrows when he accepted a fight against WBA
middleweight kingpin Gennady Golovkin. Rosado has already
secured the mandatory position for a shot at Cornelius "K9"
Bundrage's IBF 154 pound title. Rosado knows that while a
fight against Bundrage may be easier, a win over Golovkin will
do a lot more for his career.

"I saw it as a great opportunity. I clinched the #1 spot as K9's
mandatory but I see this as a bigger opportunity. I beat Triple G
and I become a star. I know I can do it and I'm going to do it,"
Rosado would tell us on The Boxing

"I saw him for the first time on HBO

Proska) and I was impressed with the guy. I didn't think I'd be
fighting him but I was impressed. When I got the phone call I
can honestly say I was excited to be able to face him. I'm
looking forward to the challenge

Rosado didn't start boxing until the age of 18 and experienced
a lot of bumps early on in his career as he learned his craft on
the job without much of an amateur career. His hard work has
paid off as he has achieved a lot of success the past two
years. He attributes that success to his work ethic and his
desire to improve.

"I'm not the type of fighter who just goes to the gym

trains. I go home and study film with my trainer. I'm always
learning and always working on my game. I am always looking
to add to my game from the old school fighters," Rosado
explained.

More eyebrows were raised when Rosado refused to fight
Golovkin at a 158 pound catchweight. Rosado's adviser had
successfully negotiated the catchweight but the fighter of
Puerto Rican descent refused to fight at any weight lower than
the 160 pound middleweight limit. Rosado said that he believes
weight classes should be respected and that he would never
ask a champion to move down in weight.

"I think catchweights are a joke. How can you fight a champion
and tell him to meet you at a catchweight? That's why they
have weight classes. I think they have too weight classes
anyway. He's the champ so I want to fight him at his weight
class plus I don't want those last two pounds to kill him and
give him an excuse as to why he lost. I want to beat him fair
and square," Rosado stated.

Golovkin-Rosado takes place on January 19th and will be
televised by HBO.

Golovkin puttin in work for Rosado at Big Bear



Sparring light heavyweights

Final presser

Salido vs Garcia


GGG vs Rosada

I don't know man Salido is a tough dude that could bring Mikey to deep waters,maybe a place he's never been before and we don't really know if Mikey is capable of swimming back to shore.

My gut is telling me Salido by late TKO.

But Im pulling for Garcia. Id love him to fight Gamboa.

Crazy to realize he is only 32 years old but has been a pro for 17 years.

Wow Campillo was just destroyed by the undefeated Russian Sergey Kovalev, KO in the 3rd. Light Heavyweight is on notice now! He beat him down. Campillo is the guy who should have wins over Cloud and Shuminov and he was pounded from opening bell on.

Garcia is beating the shit out of Salido, 5 knockdowns already. Didn't see this coming thought Salido could take his power better.