12.05.05 – Undefeated Leopoldo Gonzalez of Tijuana, Mexico, and Samuel Lopez of Phoenix, meet for the vacant World Boxing Association Fedelatin bantamweight championship in the 12-round main event on the nationally and internationally televised “Guilty Fight Night Boxeo de Campeones” card promoted by Guilty Boxing Friday, May 13, at the Orleans Coast Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev..
This card, in the 7,000-seat Orleans Arena, will be televised on ESPN2 as well as ESPN Deportes and ESPN Dos.
The 10-round semi-main event matches super middleweights Jose Juan Vasquez of San Juan, P.R., and Ricardo Olmeda of Guasave, Mexico.
The bout between the 21-year-old Gonzalez and the 31-year-old Lopez is a classic matchup between a puncher and a boxer.
The hard-hitting Gonzalez lists a record of 13-0 with nine knockouts while the slick-boxing Lopez has a mark of 15-3 with five knockouts.
Gonzalez has five wins on Guilty Boxing cards, including his most recent victory March 11 in Tijuana when he took a 10-round unanimous decision over Arturo Bracamontes.
Lopez is coming off a 10-round unanimous decision as well, over Fernando Montiel Sept. 10 in Stockton, Calif.
The 24-year-old Vasquez, tall for a 168-pound boxer at 6-foot-3-inches, has a record of
14-1-1 with eight knockouts while Olmeda, the Mexican middleweight champion during 2001 and 2002, lists a mark of 19-4 with 14 knockouts.
Vasquez, who has a record of 12-0-1 dating back to 1999, is coming off a unanimous decision over Arturo Lopez on a Guilty Boxing card March 18 in Tijuana.
Vasquez is managed by Freddy Trinidad, brother of former world champion Felix Trinidad.
Guilty Boxing’s “Boxeo de Campeones” Spanish-language telecasts are seen domestically and in Puerto Rico on ESPN Deportes and in Mexico and Latin American on ESPN Dos.
Guilty Boxing’s weekly cards are seen in 112 million households worldwide, making Guilty Productions one of the fastest-growing providers of boxing television programming in the world.
This is another in the ongoing series of “Guilty Fight Night” cards. The innovative Guilty Boxing series was launched last May and has presented cards in California, Arizona, Connecticut and Mexico as well as Las Vegas.
Six-round fights on the seven-bout card include: super welterweight Joaquin Zamora
(6-2-1, 5 KOs) of Socorro, N.M., against Ishwar Amador (11-6, 7 KOs) of Riverside, Calif.; welterweight Juan Manuel Buendia (7-0, 4 KOs) of Detroit against Wladimir Khodokovski
(12-6-2, 4 KOs) of Orwell, Ohio; super lightweight Humberto Tapia (7-0, 5 KOs) of Tijuana against Alejandro Pena (12-7, 8 KOs) of Los Mochis, Mexico; and featherweight Joel Santiago (3-0, 1 KO) of Las Vegas against Ivan Rodriguez (4-1, 2 KOs) of Las Vegas.
The four-round bout features flyweight Juan Mercedes (5-1, 4 KOs) of San Juan against Frankie Soto (10-14-2, 6 KOs) of Los Mochis.
The card starts at 7 p.m. (Pacific).
Commentators for this Guilty Boxing telecast on ESPN2 are “The Colonel” Bob Sheridan and Benny Ricardo. Sheridan, a Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, has worked almost 800 world championship bouts on six continents during a career that has spanned more than three decades. Ricardo, for 11 years a place kicker on four NFL teams, also is a veteran announcer and has covered the biggest events in the sports world, ranging from Super Bowls to World Cups.
Commentators for Guilty Boxing’s “Boxeo de Campeones” Spanish-language telecast on ESPN Deportes and ESPN Dos are Roberto Sosa and former five-time world champion Manuel Medina.