Latin Fury 12 Weigh In and News On Julio Cesar Jr.

Posted by Jonathan Yaghoubi on 10.09.2009

Full weights from today's weigh-in and details from the Chavez Jr. presser.


Photos by Chris Farina / Top Rank

Tomorrow night will be the 12th installment of the Latin Fury PPV and will take place at the Wamu Theatre at Madison Square Garden. The two main bouts on the evening will feature two of the better boxers in the world and hope to be on a collision course with wins.

The undefeated WBO jr. featherweight champion, Juan Manuel Lopez (26-0, 24 KO's) from Caguas, Puerto Rico will face Rogers Mtagwa for Lopez's WBO title. Lopez will look to continue to be the new star of Puerto Rico boxing with an impressive win. His promoter, Bob Arum, has said many times that Lopez will be boxing's next great superstar.

In the co-feature, WBA featherweight champion Yuikorkis Gamboa (15-0, 13 KO's) will look to continue his rise to stardom when he will put his title on the line against Whyber Garcia. Gamboa hopes that win by him will get him a big mega fight against Lopez to determine the king of the bantamweights. Gamboa is seen as one boxing's rising star as he won the gold medal in the 2004 Olympics. He and Lopez look to take one step closer toward a mega fight with each other.

Below is the entire weigh in for tomorrow night's card that will include Irish John Duddy. Duddy will look to rebound from his first career loss back in April in a fight which many felt "exposed" Duddy.

Juan Manuel Lopez 121 vs. Rogers Mtagwa 121
Yuriorkis Gamboa 124.5 vs Whyber Garcia 124.5
Odlanier Solis 271 vs Monte Barrett 218.5
Pawel Wolak 155.5 vs Carlos Nascimento 154
John Duddy 161 vs Jorge Munoz 160
Omar Chavez 143 vs James Ventry 143.5
Carlos Negron 180 vs Larry Pryor 180.5
Jorge Diaz 121.5 vs Yan Barthlemy 121
Michael Torres 134 vs Martin Tucker 136

In other news, Bob Arum announced the entire televised undercard for the Pacquiao-Cotto PPV event. A card that will include undefeated No.1 contender Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and Yuri Foreman, plus three-time world champion Daniel Santos add more firepower to the blockbuster card.

Chavez (40-0-1, 30 KO's), from Culiacan, Mexico, is the son of the legendary world champion Julio Cesar Chavez. He will be facing Troy Rowland (25-2, 7 Kos) of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in a 10 round middleweight bout. Rowland enters the fight on a four bout winning streak, with two of those victories coming by knockout.

Daniel Santos (32-2-1, 23 Kos) of San Juan, Puerto Rico, will be making his first title defense of his WBA super welterweight title, which he won last year with a sixth round knockout of undefeated defending champion Joachin Alcine.

Santos will defend his title against No. 1 contender Yuri Foreman(27-0, 8 KO's), who was born in Belarus, raised in Israel and now lives in Brooklyn. He is a self proclaimed "Talmud-studying boxer" and is now on the cusp of realizing his dream of wearing a world champion.

Also added to the card is former "Contender" star Alfonso Gomez (20-4-2) facing off against Jesus Soto-Karass in a 10 round welterweight bout.