Boxing Confidential has learned that Top Rank Promotions has filed an application with the Nevada State Athletic Commission to promote a boxing show on November 15, 2008 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas featuring WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao against WBA super featherweight champion Edwin Valero. Keith Keizer, Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, informed Boxing Confidential that Top Rank has filed an application for the event co-starring the enigmatic Valero. The Venezuelan knockout artist had been banned from fighting in the U.S. following a 2004 suspension by New York’ commission due to having once suffered a blood clot from a motorcycle years ago in his homeland.
For years Valero and his promoter Teiken of Japan have been fighting the medical suspension and earlier this year the State of Texas granted the southpaw a license. Top Rank will be hiring a physician to review Valero’s medical records and then present a report to the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s Medical Advisory Board, lead by neurologist Dr. Al Capanna, who will then forward a recommendation on Valero’s participation in boxing within the State of Nevada.
Pacquiao vs. Valero had been speculated, but this announcement presents SOLID evidence of Top Rank moving forward with a fight hardcore fight fans have been awaiting for several years.
