Super Bantamweight world champion Jessie Magdaleno had to pull out of his November 11 title defense with Cesar Juarez with a wrist injury, according to Dan Rafael of espn.com.
“I’m disappointed for Jessie Magdaleno, I’m disappointed for Cesar Juarez and I’m disappointed for the fight fans who wanted to see this fight,” duBoef said. “We’ll reschedule the fight and probably see it after the first of the year. It’s not the end of the world. It happens. It’s part of the business and you have to accept it.
“It’s unfortunate because there would be fireworks with that fight. So we’ll see the fireworks in 2018 instead of in 2017.”
Frank Espinoza, Magdaleno’s manager, told ESPN that the injury was a reoccurrence of an injury Magdaleno, a southpaw, suffered about a month ago as he opened training camp.
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“At the beginning of camp he had hurt his hand and it seemed to get better,” Espinoza said. “We took him to the doctor. Nothing was broken. It felt better and he continued to work. Then it happened again the other day in sparring. His left wrist is swollen. He was kind of bummed out about it when I talked to him. He was down. It’s a shame, but you can’t prevent injuries. I’m certainly not going to put my fighter in the ring unless he’s 100 percent.”
