Next Latin Fury PPV starting to take shape

by Scott Christ on Feb 18, 2010 10:43 PM EST in Boxing News Analysis

Fernando Montiel could be back in the ring on May 8. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn / Getty Images)

Despite earlier reports that Fernando Montiel was looking to unify bantamweight titles with Hozumi Hasegawa, Rick Reeno reports that Top Rank's plans for Montiel are still focused in-house, with a fight against Eric Morel possible for their May 8 Latin Fury pay-per-view show.

Montiel (40-2, 30 KO) easily dispatched of Ciso Morales in the first round on February 13, the same night that Morel (42-2, 21 KO) won a disputed decision over veteran Gerry Penalosa. The two would be in the co-feature bout on the show, which will be headlined by the ring return of Antonio Margarito, who was recently denied a license in Texas after having his license suspended by California last year.

The show is set to take place in Mexico, where Margarito will be granted a license without any trouble. His opponent is still going to be Carson Jones, too, the fight simply "rescheduled" from its original March 13 date.

A big part of me still thinks Top Rank advertised Margarito's return on the Cowboys Stadium show to drum up early ticket sales, but that's just speculation.

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I agree

Bob Arum was using Margarito to boost up Ticket Sales for Pacquiao Fight with Clottey. I heard that Texas is reviewing everything and the fact that he hasn’t gotten his Licence in California is the Main reason he didn’t get in Texas

by rgb on Feb 18, 2010 11:00 PM EST reply actions

I don’t really buy it as a hype machine. It seems to me that Arum thought he could probably get Ali himself licensed these days in Texas if he wanted to and didn’t even consider that Texas could have a moral bone in its body when dealing with a Mexican money maker. I think Arum fully intended to have the fight on the undercard and was just as surprised as we were that Texas’ commission may actually not be an invertebrate.

by jcarr71 on Feb 19, 2010 1:41 AM EST reply actions

it's the more likely scenario for sure

Arum is now blaming the CSAC for interfering or whatever, as if they shouldn’t call a fellow boxing commission and say, “Here’s why we suspended this guy, and don’t you think he should come to us to get his license back?” Arum and Margarito tried to slip in the back door and got turned down. Now they’ll go to Mexico, where there are almost no standards with the commission whatsoever.

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by Scott Christ on Feb 19, 2010 1:52 AM EST up reply actions