JUAN MANUEL LOPEZ & BOB ARUM
To Hold Media Conference Call
Friday, April 8, at 2 P.M. ET / 11 A.M. PT
WHO: Popular Unbeaten WBO Featherweight Champion Juan Manuel Lopez
Top Rank, Inc., CEO Bob Arum
WHEN: Friday, April 8, at 2 P.M. ET / 11 A.M. PT
ACCESS #: (888) 299-4099 (U.S. Toll Free), (866) 682-1172 (Canadian Toll Free), (302) 709-8337 (International Toll). Ask for SHOWTIME Conference Call (Verbal Passcode: VB70508)
WHAT: A media conference call to discuss the upcoming world title fight between defending WBO featherweight champion Lopez (30-0, 27 KOs) and former IBF 126-pound titlist Orlando “Sri” Salido (34-11-2, 22 KOs), on Saturday, April 16, live on SHOWTIME® (10:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast).
In a terrific precede to the main event on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING from Ruben Rodriguez Coliseo in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, undefeated Luis Cruz (17-0, 14 KOs), of Philadelphia by way of Las Piedras, P.R., will get tested for class when he takes on fellow world-ranked Puerto Rican and former WBO champion Roman “Rocky’’ Martinez (24-1-1, 15 KOs), of Vega Baja, in a 12-round junior lightweight bout.
The exciting, hard-hitting Lopez, of San Juan, P.R., is a two-division world champion who’ll be making his third WBO title defense. The talented southpaw is coming off an excellent eighth-round TKO over Mexico’s boxing legend and future Hall of Famer, Rafael Marquez, in a tense give-and-take slugfest last Nov. 6 on SHOWTIME. Lopez, 27, has knocked out 90 percent of his opponents.
Salido, 30, of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico, is obviously more dangerous than his record would indicate. In his last start, he scored a knockdown and went the distance against power-punching WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa on Sept. 11, 2010. The points loss came one start after he registered two knockdowns en route to winning a decision and the then-vacant IBF title over Cristobal Cruz.
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