Golden Boy signs super-featherweight champ Linares
It was described as a ``major announcement,'' but the public revelation that Golden Boy Promotions has signed Venezuelan Jorge Linares brought some media center vets to ask, ``We got up for this?''
After a bad loss to Amir Khan had talk of retirement floating around former junior welterweight titlist Paulie Malignaggi, Rick Reeno of BoxingScene.com reports today that Malignaggi will instead target a move to the welterweight division to continue his career.