Junior featherweight titlist Wilfredo Vazquez Jr.(Above) of Puerto Rico will make his third defense against Mexican star Jorge Arce(Below) on May 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Top Rank's Carl Moretti told ESPN.com on Wednesday. The fight will be one of the televised bouts on the Showtime PPV undercard of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao's welterweight title defense against former champ Shane Mosley. Moretti was in Puerto Rico on Tuesday to oversee a news conference announcing featherweight titlist Juan Manuel Lopez's April 16 Showtime-televised defense in Bayamon against former titlist Orlando Salido. While Moretti was in Puerto Rico, he met with Tuto Zabala Jr., his longtime friend and Vazquez's promoter, to finish the deal. Along with the fight against Arce, they also worked out terms for Top Rank to come aboard as Vazquez's co-promoter, Moretti said. It's a deal similar to the one Top Rank struck late last year with promoter Russell Peltz to co-promote Philadelphia welterweight Mike Jones. "We're done, we're good to go," Moretti said of the deal with Zabala. "We've agreed on everything. We'll be doing a lot of fights with Tuto and Vazquez." Moretti said they have not signed the paperwork yet, but that it was a formality. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=6106415
