WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is expected to make an announcement shortly on who his opponent will be on June 6 in New York City. According to some sources, IBF jr middleweight champion Cornelius ?K9″ Bundrage is the opponent, either way it should be official soon.
Here?s another reason to be at the Forum in Inglewood, California on May 16. WBC flyweight champion Roman ?Chocolatito? Gonzalez (42-0, 36 KOs) says he will be defending on that card against former world champion Edgar Sosa (51-8, 30 KOs). Of course, the main event is WBA/WBC interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs) against Willie Monroe Jr (19-1, 6 KOs).
Popular lightweight contender Ray Beltran (29-7-1, 17 KOs) has announced via social media that he will face Takahiro Ao (27-3-1, 12 KOs) for the vacant WBO title on May 1. The bout is expected to take place at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on the eve of the Mayweather-Pacquiao megafight.
Th WBA has announced that the camps of WBA cruiserweight champion Dennis Lebedev (26-2, 20 KOs) and interim champ Youri Kalenga (21-1, 14 KOs) have reached an agreement thus avoiding a purse bid. The fight will take place on April 10 in Moscow, Russia.
A WBO purse bid is scheduled for March 24 in Hungary for the WBO cruiserweight title clash between champion Marco Huck (38-2-1, 26 KOs) and mandatory challenger Krzysztof Glowacki (24-0, 15 KOs). Minimum bid is $300,000.
