Fight-size Boxing Update: Pacquiao vs. Broner Officials, Purses, Vasiliy Lomachenko
Your fight-size boxing update:
– Below are the referees and judges assigned for each fight for the pay-per-view card for Manny Pacquiao vs. Adrien Broner.
Manny Pacquiao vs. Adrien Broner: WBA “Regular” Welterweight title
- Referee: Russell Mora
- Judges: Tim Cheatham, Dave Moretti, Glenn Feldman
Badou Jack vs. Marcus Browne: Interim WBA Light Heavyweight title/WBC Light Heavyweight title eliminator
- Referee Tony Weeks
- Judges: Eric Cheek, Max DeLuca, Don Trella
Rau’Shee Warren vs. Nordine Oubaali: WBC Bantamweight title
- Referee: Vic Drakulich
- Judges: Ricardo Ocasio, Julie Lederman, Steven Weisfeld
Alberto Guevara vs. Hugo Ruiz: Featherweight Bout
- Referee: Jay Nady
- Judges: Adalaide Byrd, Robert Hoyle, Glenn Trowbridge
– Per the Nevada State Athletic Commission, here are the purses for the fighters competing on the PPV card:
- Manny Pacquiao $10 million (plus a percentage of the profits)
- Adrien Broner $2.5 million (plus a percentage of the profits)
- Badou Jack $500,000
- Marcus Browne $250,000
- Rau’shee Warren $125,000
- Nordine Oubaali $85,000
- Hugo Ruiz $30,000
– The WBA has scheduled a purse bid for the mandatory fight between unified WBA and WBO lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and Anthony Crolla. If Top Rank and Matchroom Boxing fail to negotiate a deal, then the purse bid will take place on February 4 at the WBA offices in Panama City, Panama with the minimum bid being $150,000. If it goes to a purse bid, Lomachenko is entitled to 75 percent of the winning bid while Crolla gets the remaining 25 percent.
– In the tweet below, watch WBO junior welterweight champion Maurice Hooker and Eddie Hearn react live to 140-pound contender Jorge Linares suffering a major first-round stoppage upset loss to Pablo Cesar Cano on the January 18 Matchroom Boxing USA card.
— @mightymohooker reacts to #LinaresCano — pic.twitter.com/Cb4fainhaM
— Matchroom Boxing (@MatchroomBoxing) January 19, 2019
