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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

FanHouse visited the Goossen Gym in Van Nuys, Calif., to speak with trainer, Jorge Diaz, concerning some upcoming bouts, as well as whom he believes to be the premiere Mexican boxer in history.

Among them could be WBO and WBC bantamweight (118 pounds) champion Fernando Montiel (pictured at right), of Mexico, who has Saturday night’s HBO televised affair that is being promoted by Top Rank Promotions from the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas against WBA interim super flyweight (115 pounds) titlist Nonito Donaire.

The 31-year-old Montiel (44-2-2, 34 knockouts) is riding an 11-0-1 unbeaten streak that includes nine knockouts, four straight stoppages and a mark of 5-0-1, with five knockouts in his past six fights.

In addition, Montiel is among five Mexican fighters to have won world titles over the course of three divisions — the others being WBA and WBO lightweight (135 pounds) titlist Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 38 KOs), Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. (107-6-2, 86 KOs), Erik Morales (51-6, 35 KOs) and Marco Antonio Barrera (67-7, 44 KOs).

Another Mexican great was the late former world champion, Salvador Sanchez Jr., who earned the WBC featherweight (126) title with a 13th-round knockout of Danny Lopez in February of 1980 and defended it nine times.

Salvador Sanchez Jr. died in a car accident shortly after stopping previously unbeaten Azumah Nelson in the 15th round of their July, 1982 match up.

Diaz also commented on upcoming bouts between Mexico’s 20-year-old WBC silver belt titlist Saul Alvarez and England’s Matthew Hatton for the WBC’s junior middleweight (154 pounds) belt in an HBO televised, March 5 clash, as well as a Showtime pay per view televised May 7 match up featuring eight division king, Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) defending against three-division, five-time titlist Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs).

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

Fresh off of his appearance at the Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, during which he performed in the halftime show, Taboo, of the Black Eyed Peas, shared his experiences with FanHouse.

FanHouse caught up with Taboo at ‘Peapod,’ a charity event in Hollywood supported by the Black Eyed Peas since 1999.

A man of Philippines decent, Taboo also told FanHouse that he is a supporter of eight-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, who was in Los Angeles on Thursday for the first top in a four-city promotional tour by Top Rank Promotions, gearing up for a May 7, Showtime pay per view televised defense of his WBO welterweight (147 pounds) belt against Shane Mosley.

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Mexico’s Saul Alvarez will return to the ring in March, perhaps in Los Angeles and potentially against WBA welterweight (147 pounds) champ Vyacheslav Senchenko, Golden Boy Promotions’ CEO, Richard Schaefer, told FanHouse on Thursday.

The 20-year-old Alvarez is 35-0-1, with 26 knockouts, and Senchenko, 31-0, with 20 knockouts coming off of August’s unanimous decision victory over Charlie Jose Navarro (18-4, 13 KOs).

“What’s next for him is it looks like he’s going to be fighting in early March, and I’ve been actually working with HBO on the date and coordinating the site. We would like him to fight in Los Angeles,” said Schaefer.

“And, you know, we would like to see if he could fight for the world title against the WBA champion. Another name that has been mentioned is Matthew Hatton as well,” said Schaefer. “So we are going to see what we can put together. I would hope that within the next week or 10 days, that we have all of that firmed up. But he’s definitely going to be back in early March.”

Golden Boy Promotions and Hall of Fame promoter and matchmaker, Don Chargin, told Elie Seckbach of FanHouse that he believes Alvarez can be “The biggest super star” ever to come out of Mexico.

“That’s exactly how I feel, but I also said ‘As long as there are no hiccups along the way.’ I really believe that. I can just sense it. There’s a certain maganetism about him that you don’t find,” said Chargin, who has promoted boxing for nearly 70 years and works as a special consultant and advisor to Schaefer.

“People ask why certain fighters draw, and some of them, you can just feel it as you’re sitting in the arena,” said Chargin. “There’s just something about him, and that’s the feeling I get with this kid. If he doesn’t let all of this go to his head, it’s unlimited what he [Alvarez] can do.”

That is some lofty praise for Alvarez, who is coming off of a Dec. 4, unanimous decision win over South African-born, 39-year-old former world champion, Lovemore N’dou (48-12-2, 31 KOs), of Sydney South Wales, Australia.

N’dou was the 31st consecutive win during a run that has included 11 knockouts in the past 13 fights for Alvarez, who has fought four times on American soil.

In N’dou, Alvarez faced a man who entered their clash at 2-0-1 over his previous three fights. N’dou was coming off of September’s split-decision win over previously unbeaten Bongani Mwelase, who entered their bout with a record of 14-0, with 12 knockouts.

“I really do see him, and this is my personal experience, as a mixture of Julio Cesar Chavez and me. That’s the way that I see him. He has the courage, he has the desire, and he’s a proud Mexican,” said Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya. “Yet he’s smart, and he’s a good-looking kid and he’s got a good following. So he’s a mixture of Chavez and me, and that is the way that I see him.”

Hearing De La Hoya’s description only seems to embolden Alvarez.

“It makes me want to accomplish more things and to perform for my fans,” said Alvarez. “That motivates me to not only be like them, but to surpass them and to make my own name.”

Consider that could mean being greater than 37-year-old WBO and WBA lightweight (135 pounds) titlist Juan Manuel Marquez (51–5-1, 38 knockouts), who, at present, is widely considered to be the country’s premiere boxer.

It could mean surpassing the come-backing, 34-year-old former three-time world champion, Erik Morales (50-6, 35 knockouts), of Tijuana, Mex., who is the last man to beat Manny Pacquiao. Morales will meet Francisco Lorenzo (35-8, 16 KOs) on Saturday night with an eye toward a showdown opposite Marquez that would make Morales the first Mexican to win a crown in four different divisions.

That could also mean outdoing Mexico City’s 36-year-old, five-time, three-division champion, Marco Antonio Barrera (66-7, 43 KOs), against whom Morales lost two out of three fights in a trilogy whose legendary status, for Mexicans, rivals the one between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

Unbeaten Cuban-born southpaw and two-time former Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux (pictured at far right) earned a world title in only his seventh professional fight on Nov. 13 by split-decision over Panamanian southpaw super featherweight Ricardo Cordoba (pictured at right, on the left) in an HBO pay per view televised, Top Rank Promotions card at The Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

Rigondeaux (7-0, five knockouts) took the WBA’s interim 122- pound title against Cordoba (37-3-2, 23 KOs) on the under card of a junior middleweight (154 pounds) championship main event during which WBO welterweight (147 pounds) king Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) earned a unanimous decision over former titlist Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) for the vacant WBC crown.

In victory, Rigondeaux, who turned 30 on Sept. 30, eclipsed the boxing record established by Leon Spinks, who was 7-0-1, with five knockouts after dethroning Muhammad Ali for the WBC and WBA heavyweight crowns in his eighth professional fight in February of 1978.

As an amateur, Rigondeaux had a remarkable record of 243-4, winning gold medals in 2000 and 2004. FanHouse spoke to Rigondeaux regarding his place in boxing history.

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