Undefeated champion Devon Alexander will meet fellow champion Juan Urango in a junior welterweight unification fight in March.
Alexander (19-0, 12 KOs) will defend his WBC belt for the first time against Urango, who holds the IBF title. The fight is scheduled for March 6 at Mohegan Sun Arena.
The 22-year-old Alexander hasn’t fought since stopping Junior Witter last August. The product of the rough Hyde Park neighborhood in North St. Louis is considered one of the rising stars in the 140-pound (63 1/2 -kilogram) division.
The 29-year-old Urango (22-2-1, 17 KOs) hasn’t been shy about facing some of the best in the world, his only two losses coming to former champ Ricky Hatton in 2007 and current welterweight titleholder Andre Berto early last year.
http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ap-alexander-urango&prov=ap&type=lgns• The junior welterweight unification bout between titleholders Devon Alexander (19-0, 12 KOs) and Juan Urango (22-2-1, 17 KOs) is a done deal. Alexander signed his contract this week, manager and trainer Kevin Cunningham told ESPN.com. The fight had been finalized on all other fronts other than Cunningham's working out the specifics of Alexander's deal with promoter Don King. The fight is March 6 at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and headlines HBO's "Boxing After Dark." It will be the HBO debut for Alexander, 22, who won his slice of the 140-pound title in August by dominating England's Junior Witter, who quit after the eighth round. Colombia's Urango, 29, is coming off a title-retaining 11th-round knockout of ex-titleholder Randall Bailey in August.
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