Referee Roberto Ramirez is still not satisfied with the apology from former WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez. In the opinion of Ramirez, the apology seemed sincere but fell short because the fighter failed to admit publicly that he had no evidence to support his allegations read more ...

Juan Manuel «Juanma» Lopez, the former two-time world champion, appeared before the Puerto Rican media to apologize to the referee Roberto Ramirez for his post-fight comments that followed his TKO loss to Mexico’s Orlando Salido, the featherweight champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), on March 10th in San Juan read more ...

Former WBO super bantamweight and featherweight champion Juan Manuel «Juanma» Lopez (31-2, 28KOs) is possibly going to continue his career at super featherweight. According to manager and trainer Orlando Pinero, Lopez has to work very hard to make the featherweight limit of 126-pounds. At nearly 29-years of age, Pinero believes it’s time for his boxer to consider a move to 130-pounds read more ...

Once Mexico’s Orlando ’Siri’ Salido (38-11-2, 26KOs) retained his WBO featherweight title last Saturday night by way of a technical knockout over Juan Manuel ’Juanma’ López, Panamanian Celestino ’Pelenchín’ Caballero (36-4, 23KOs), the WBA’s champion, began shouting for a unification with the Mexican champion read more ...

Referee Robert Ramirez explained his reasoning for rejecting the public apology of Juan Manuel Lopez. After Lopez was stopped in the tenth round of Saturday’s rematch with WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido, which took place in San Juan — Lopez called Ramirez «a gambler» and claimed the referee had a "gambling problem read more ...

Former champion Juan Manuel Lopez has issued a public apology to referee Roberto Ramirez. After Lopez was stopped in the tenth round of Saturday’s rematch with WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido, which took place in San Juan — Lopez called Ramirez «a gambler» and claimed the referee had a «gambling problem.» read more ...

WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido (38-11-2, 26KOs) knew that a knockout victory was crucial on Saturday night. After going to Puerto Rico last April to stop hometown hero Juan Manuel Lopez (31-2, 28KOs) in eight rounds, Salido repeated his accomplishment with a tenth round stoppage of the Puerto Rican star. Although Salido appeared to be well ahead in the fight, he wasn’t surprised with the shocking scorecards read more ...

In one for the ages, WBO featherweight champion Orlando «Siri» Salido (38-11-2, 26 KOs) fearlessly came back to Puerto Rico for his world title rematch against the previous beltholder Juan Manuel «Juanma» Lopez (31-2, 28 KOs) on Saturday night at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan...and the end result was the same. A TKO, this time in the tenth round. After a feel-out first round, Salido upped the pressure in round two read more ...

It took nearly two hours from the originally scheduled start time to finally get all parties on scale, but the highly anticipated rematch between Orlando Salido and Juan Manuel Lopez is set for Saturday night at Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Salido (37-11-2, 25KO) weighed in at the featherweight limit of 126 lb, electing to weigh in first despite his status as defending champion read more ...

Many things went wrong when Juan Manuel Lopez lost to Orlando Salido last April 16. But Lopez’s problems began before he even set foot in the ring. The former featherweight champion usually adds about 10 pounds from the time he weighs in the previous day until the time his fights begin read more ...