They’ve drawn lines in the sand before, and rival promoters Bob Arum of Top Rank and Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions are digging in again.
Their divide is over Sept. 15 -- Mexican Independence Day -– in Las Vegas, with two of the most popular Mexican fighters in boxing now scheduled to fight on conflicting cards.
Schaefer on May 5 announced that his fighter, 21-year-old world super-welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, would headline his first pay-per-view on Sept. 15 at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Alvarez's opponent, Paul Williams, days later was paralyzed in a motorcycle crash. A second opponent, James Kirkland, later withdrew, citing ongoing discomfort with a surgically repaired right shoulder and unhappiness with his pay.
Last week, Golden Boy’s Schaefer announced Staples Center headliner Victor Ortiz of Ventura will fight Alvarez as long as Ortiz emerges victorious and healthy against Riverside’s scrappy Josesito Lopez on Saturday night.
Showtime has agreed to televise Alvarez’s fight on pay-per-view, and hype it with a four-episode preview series concentrating on the participants.
On Saturday night, however, Arum announced minutes after world middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. defeated Andy Lee by seventh-round technical knockout at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, that Chavez (46-0-1, 32 knockouts) would participate in a super-fight against Argentina’s Sergio Martinez (49-2-2, 28 KOs) on Sept. 15 at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.
Continue reading on two of the most popular Mexican fighters in boxing (Via Los Angeles Times)
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