Gamer
12-27-2010, 11:14 PM
c/p By Jhonny Gonzalez
WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez is looking to fight three times in 2011. The first fight is a return to Puerto Rico on April 16. If he wins, he will then return in the summer in a possible rematch with Rafael Marquez. Juanma stopped Marquez in nine rounds in November. With those two fights completed, he will look for a year-end battle with WBA/IBF champion Yuriorkis Gamboa. The April opponent is rumored to be Teon Kennedy.
"I'll be fighting on April 16 in Puerto Rico. We have some names in the pipeline. We are just waiting for my mananger to finalize everything. Then in the summer we will be squaring up with Rafael Marquez in a rematch. And at the end of the year, I'm hoping that everything translates in a big fight with Yuriorkis Gamboa, which is the one that everyone is anticipating," Lopez told Greg Rodriguez.
WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez is looking to fight three times in 2011. The first fight is a return to Puerto Rico on April 16. If he wins, he will then return in the summer in a possible rematch with Rafael Marquez. Juanma stopped Marquez in nine rounds in November. With those two fights completed, he will look for a year-end battle with WBA/IBF champion Yuriorkis Gamboa. The April opponent is rumored to be Teon Kennedy.
"I'll be fighting on April 16 in Puerto Rico. We have some names in the pipeline. We are just waiting for my mananger to finalize everything. Then in the summer we will be squaring up with Rafael Marquez in a rematch. And at the end of the year, I'm hoping that everything translates in a big fight with Yuriorkis Gamboa, which is the one that everyone is anticipating," Lopez told Greg Rodriguez.