Los Angeles, Calif. - When capturing the WBA Light Heavyweight Championship in just his 10th professional bout back in January, Beibut Shumenov (9-1, 6 KOs) entered the boxing record books for winning a major world title in the light heavyweight division with the fewest number of fights in his professional career, beating Jeff Harding’s record established in 1988 after winning the championship in his 15th professional bout.

LOS ANGELES - After a spectacular event in March that saw lightweight contender Vicente Escobedo score another big win, Golden Boy Promotions returns to the Auditorio Plaza La Condesa in Mexico City with an exciting fight card on Friday, June 25 that will be broadcast throughout Latin America on HBO Plus' "Next Boxing Generation" and on TeleFutura's "Sólo Boxeo Tecate" in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Due to injury sustained by IBF super bantamweight champion Steve Molitor the scheduled world title defence against Jason Booth has been postponed and re-scheduled for September 10.

Eduardo Escobedo (27-3, 19 KOs) and Colombian Aristides Perez (18-1, 10 KOs) had their first encounter leading up to their WBC super featherweight silver title clash Saturday in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Los Mochis, Sinaloa -- Eduardo “Canilla” Escobedo y el colombiano Arístides Pérez tuvieron su primer encontronazo rumbo a la función de Gala de Boxeo la noche del 26 de junio en el estadio de futbol Centenario.

Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, a former two-time New York City Golden Gloves champion, and the WBA light heavyweight champion 1980-81, has joined Zab “Super” Judah’s training team. Judah (38-6, 26 KOs), the former world light welterweight and undisputed welterweight champion, is in Las Vegas preparing for his July 16 battle with Jose Armando Santa Cruz of Michoacán, Mexico (28-4, 17 KOs).

NEW YORK, NY - The Empire Sports and Entertainment, Inc. ("The Empire" or "The Company"), a promoter of entertainment and sports events, today announced that Mr. Shelly Finkel, a legendary entertainment promoter and boxing manager, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Finkel will assume the position on July 1, 2010 and will guide The Empire to a leading position in sports-driven promotions and entertainment events such as concerts, music festivals, pay-per-view shows, as well as other exciting events.

On July 31 in Hamburg, Universum Box-Promotion is putting together a huge summer boxing event, WBC interim-middleweight champion  Sebastian Zbik will defend at the O2 World with ZDF televising the card. In the co-feature, Dimitri Sartison and Khoren Gevor will face off at super middleweight.

From today's standing room only media workout at the Jesse James Leija Champion Fit Gym in San Antonio, Texas

JULIO CÉSAR CHÁVEZ, JR.

“At first I thought to myself, ‘Could I really hack it with Freddie Roach?  Could I make it?’