News - Edwin Valero

Venezuelan KO artist Edwin Valero is satisfied to be with Top Rank and Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum, and is planning on big money matchups with Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao and Juan Diaz among others. Valero, a former WBA super featherweight monarch, and now official lightweight challenger will next fight for the WBC interim belt. “The fight will be April 4 in the city of San Antonio, Texas,” said Valero read more ...

WBC bantam champ, Japanese southpaw Hozumi Hasegawa (24-3, 8 KOs), 117.5, successfuly retained his throne for the sixth time as he impresively dropped Uruguayan challenger Cristian Faccio (15-3, 10 KOs), 117.75, twice to prompt the referee Toby Gibson's well-timed intervention at 2:18 of the second session in the main event of the world title twinbill on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan. Hasegawa's southpaw left was a haymaker read more ...

We look forward to watching a sensational twinbill titled "The Real: World Premium Boxing #6" with world belts on the line tomorrow (Thursday) in Tokyo, Japan. There was a weigh-in ceremony today, where all the contestants successfully made the weight at their first trip on the scale. WBA super-feather champ Edwin Valero (23-0, 23 KOs) tipped the beam at 129.75 pounds, a quarter under the class limit, as his Japanese read more ...

Teiken Promotions has announced that WBA super featherweight champion Edwin Valero's application for a boxing license in the State of Texas has been approved by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the state agency governing boxing. Valero, who holds a perfect 23-0 (23 KOs) record, including 19 first-round KOs, has taken all of the medical tests required by Department of Licensing and Regulation and has been licensed read more ...

TOP Rank promoter Bob Arum isn’t interested in a possible fight between Manny Pacquiao and World Boxing Association super-featherweight champion Edwin Valero even after the Venezuelan demolished a badly overmatched Zaid Zavaleta in three brutal rounds in Cancun, Mexico on Sunday read more ...

"I want to be considered the best, so I'll have to fight Manny Pacquiao whom they claim to be the best," said unbeaten WBA super featherweight champion Edwin Valero (23-0, 23 KOs) after demolishing Zaid Zavaleta over three brutal rounds on Saturday night in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. "Tonight was one of my best fights and I want to be recognized as one of the best in the world." Valero remains on medical read more ...

WBA super featherweight champion Edwin Valero (23-0, 23 KOs) kept his amazing KO record intact with a third round TKO over Zaid Zavaleta (15-3-3, 11 KOs) on Saturday night at the Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Mexico. Valero dropped Zavaleta at the end of round one, but the bell rang before he was able to follow up. Zavaleta barely survived Valero's assault in round two, but referee Luis Pabon stopped the one-sided beatdown read more ...

On Saturday, super featherweight contender Zaid Zavaleta (15-2-3, 11 KOs) says he can do something no fighter has ever done: defeat the so far invincible WBA world champion Edwin Valero (22-0, 22 KOs). "I have never been stopped," Zavaleta told Fightnews, "and this Saturday I will win. I am not afraid of his punch." Zavelata told us he has discovered Valero’s weakness. "Condition. He has not fought long tough fights." read more ...