Juan Manuel Lopez

WBA interim super flyweight interim champion Nonito Donaire (23-1, 15 KOs) scored a third round KO over late sub Manuel ‘Chango’ Vargas (26-5-1, 11 KOs) in a non-title bout on Saturday night at the famous Las Vegas Hilton Hotel/Casino. Donaire was in command all the way before laying out Vargas for the count with a left uppercut at 1:33. After original challenger Gerson Guerrero failed his physical read more ...

If Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa established themselves as the top two featherweights in the world with impressive wins Saturday night, there seems to be no rush to definitively answer who is number one. It was the second time in four months that Lopez and Gamboa co-headlined a show from the theatre read more ...

WBO jr. featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (28-0, 25 KOs) dethroned WBO featherweight champion Steven Luevano (37-2-1, 15 KOs) with an impressibe seventh round TKO on Saturday night at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City read more ...

Superstar Felix Trinidad poses with WBO World Featherweight Champion Steven Luevano and WBO Jr. World Featherweight Champion Juan Manuel Lopez after both fighters weighed in, Luevano at 126 lbs, Lopez at 125.5 lbs). They meet on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Also WBA Featherweight Champion Yuriorkis Gamboa weighed in at 126 lbs, while chellenger Rogers Mtagwa scaled read more ...

Juan Manuel Lopez is planning for a huge 2010. The first step is the move in weight to challenge WBO featherweight Steven Luevano on January 23 in New York. Juanma was nearly derailed in his last outing against Rogers Mtagwa in October. He says the Mtagwa experience taught him a lot as a pro read more ...

We could see a potential meeting between hard-puncing featherweights Daniel Ponce De Leon (37-2, 31KOs) and Daud Cino Yordan (29-0, 19KOs) of Indonesia. According to a report in ESTO, the two would battle for the interim-WBA featherweight title and the bout would take place on the January 30 undercard to the welterweight unification between Shane Mosley-Andre Berto in Las Vegas read more ...

WBO super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez arrived back in Puerto Rico; returning from the toughest win of his career. Lopez won a much tougher than expected decision over veteran Rogers Mtagwa on Saturday night at the WaMu Theater in Madison Square Garden. For the last year, there has been a slow build-up for a unification bout with WBA/IBF champion Celestino Caballero. Every indication had the fight taking place read more ...

Unbeaten WBO jr featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (27-0, 24 KOs) overcame the toughest challenge of his career, winning a narrow twelve round unanimous decision over Rogers Mtagwa (26-13-2, 18 KOs) on Saturday night inside the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden, New York City. “Juanma” had all he could handle with the rugged brawler Mtagwa as the bout contained many spectacular exchanges. Lopez was credited with a knockdown in round five but every round was a war read more ...

BoxingScene.com has just been advised that heavyweight veteran Monte Barrett will replace Fres Oquendo as the opponent for Odlanier Solis on the Juan Manuel Lopez-Rogers Mtagwa undercard on Saturday night at the Latin Fury card at Madison Square Garden in New York read more ...

If everything goes well on October 10 at the Theatre in Madison Square Garden, WBO super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez and WBA "regular" featherweight champ Yuriorkis Gamboa will meet in 2010. The compete in co-feature bouts on the October 10 card to hype their collision next year read more ...