In an exclusive interview with ITRBoxing.com senior writer Lukie Ketelle, Karim Mayfield explained that he took a fight on 24 hour notice against Shawn Porter for the Premier Boxing Champions on Spike TV television debut. Porter’s original opponent, Roberto Garcia, failed a pre-fight medical exam and was ruled out of competition.

Josesito Lopez 146.3 vs. Andre Berto 146 Chris Arreola 262.4 vs. Curtis Harper 265.2 Shawn Porter 146.7 vs. Roberto Garcia — * Miquel Vazquez 136.6 vs. Jerry Belmontes 136.1 Gerald Washington 248.5 vs. Jason Gavern 249.8 Hanzel Martinez 125.2 vs. German Meraz 125.4 Oscar Molina 123.7 vs. Juan Rojas 123.5

The long awaited “Super” fight is fastly approaching, and on that day the world will stop to watch this fight.  No matter if you are watching from the comfort of your own home, or actually attend the live fight, be prepared to spend more than you have in the past.

Listen to a new podcast from the LukieBoxing crew who hangout in the ITRBoxing staff room from time to time topics on the podcast include Mayweather-Pacquiao presser, Ray’s live PBC experience, ‘is Al Haymon trying to make every fighter the same and take them town to town like concert promotion?’

Francisco Vargas 129.5 vs. Will Tomlinson 130 Vyacheslav Shabranskyy 174.5 vs. Fabiano Pena 173.5 Yamaguchi Falcao 161.7 vs. Raymond Terry 159.5 Armando Cardenas 143 vs. Marco Antonio Solis 139.5 Travell Mazion 153.5 vs. Joshua Snyder 153 Zachary Ochoa 140.5 vs. Engelberto Valenzuela 142 D’Mitrius Ballard 171.5 vs. Jason Zabokrtsky 169.7

KH joins Lukie to talk about PBC on NBC, a card he has been vocal about. We talk about Adrien Broner vs. John Molina Jr. and the action and lack there of. We talk about Abner Mares and well, what is left for him as well as the main event

Boxing returns to the Bay Area as Squarevision entertainment is set to put on their third event “A Night Of Glory 2” on April 25th in Richmond, CA at the Richmond Auditorium. The card has no bouts official as of now, but the card is rumored to feature junior welterweight

Earlier today on a segment of ESPN first take, WBC middleweight champion, Miguel Cotto made official his signing with Roc Nation Sports, a promotional company owned by music wizard Jay-Z. The announcement shouldn’t come as a shock to many. Especially those who thought Cotto would remain loyal to Top Rank