A few notes from around the boxing world:
- A pair of IBF purse bids, both for world title bouts and scheduled for Tuesday, were canceled because the sides made deals for the fights. According to the sanctioning body, terms were agreed to between junior middleweight titlist Jermall Charlo (24-0, 18 KOs) and mandatory challenger Julian “J Rock” Williams (22-0-1, 14 KOs), and for the vacant lightweight title bout between Richard Commey (24-0, 22 KOs) and Robert Easter (17-0, 14 KOs). Commey-Easter is due to take place Sept. 9 in Reading, Pennsylvania, and Charlo-Williams on Oct. 1 in the Los Angeles area. Other details, including which television networks will cover each bout, have not been announced.
- “Colonel” Bob Sheridan, the famed broadcaster who has called more than 10,000 boxing matches since 1967 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame last month, will reach a major milestone Saturday night at the MGM Grand. Sheridan, who lives in Las Vegas, is scheduled to call Top Rank’s international broadcast of the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol card. While the card is on HBO PPV in the United States, Sheridan’s call of the fight will be broadcast worldwide, like most of the bouts Sheridan has worked. Sheridan will call his 1,000th world title fight when Oscar Valdez and Matias Adrian Rueda face off for the featherweight belt. Crawford-Postol will be world title fight No. 1,001.
The first world title fight Sheridan called was Jimmy Ellis’ 15-round decision against Jerry Quarry to win the vacant WBA heavyweight title in 1968. He has called many of the most famous fights in history, including Muhammad Ali-George Foreman and Buster Douglas-Mike Tyson.
- Robert Guerrero (33-4-1, 18 KOs), who lost a clear unanimous decision to Danny Garcia for a vacant welterweight world title on Jan. 23, will return to the ring on Aug. 27 (Spike, 9 p.m. ET/PT) in the 12-round main event of a tripleheader at Anaheim’s Honda Center, Premier Boxing Champions announced. Guerrero, 33, of Gilroy, California, is 2-3 in his past five fights and will face Argentina’s David Peralta (25-2-1, 14 KOs), who turns 34 next month. Peralta, who has never faced a name opponent, will be fighting outside of Argentina for the first time. Also on the card are two 10-round bouts: an all-Mexican super middleweight match (at a contract weight of 165 pounds) between former junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (24-5, 20 KOs), 33, and long-faded 37-year-old Freddy Hernandez (33-8, 22, KOs), who got knocked out by Andre Berto in a 2010 welterweight title fight; and 2012 U.S. Olympian Terrell Gausha (18-0, 9 KOs), 28, of Cleveland, against Steve Martinez (16-2, 13 KOs), 26, of the Bronx, New York.
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