Bantamweight Jonathan Ba at has scored a 1^st round TKO over Ma Yi Ming in a battle of southpaws in a scheduled eight round bout at the Sangyo Hall in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.s year.

Former WBC/WBA minimum weight champion Katsunari Takayama of Osaka who was signed up by ALA Promotions last May and trains at the famed gym in Cebu has beaten the odds and won his IBF title eliminator showdown over South Africa’s Tshepo Lefele at Carnival City in Gauteng on a big card promoted by well-known boxing man Branco Milenkovic.

Z “The Dream” Gorres underwent major surgery at the Cebu Doctors Hospital Wednesday to correct a portion of his windpipe that had narrowed down and was also infected apparently due to improper handling at the  the Las Vegas University Medical Center when Gorres underwent emergency brain surgery last November.

Antonio Margarito wants the media and fight fans to forget the issue of his use of hand-wraps loaded with plaster of Paris which was discovered before his fight against Shane Mosley which he lost by a 9^th round TKO and for which he served a one year suspension and instead to consider the present.

ARLINGTON, TX (August 31, 2010) – Ten-time world champions CONGRESSMAN MANNY PACQUIAO and ANTONIO MARGARITO, of the Philippines and México, respectively, collide in the most exciting and intriguing fight of the year with the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight championship and the No. 1 pound for pound title at stake.

World Boxing Council president Don Jose Sulaiman has issued a statement praising the Texas Commission for granting Antonio Margarito a license, so he could face pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao for the vacant WBC super welterweight title at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on November 13. Here is the WBC statement.

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Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao doesn’t believe Antonio Margarito’s claim that he  didn’t know about the illegal hand-wraps that were discovered prior to his fight against Shane Mosley in which Margarito suffered a 9^th round TKO and lost his WBA super world welterweight title at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on January 24, 2009.