Top Rank won a purse bid on Friday in New York to promote unified bantamweight titleholder Fernando Montiel's mandatory defense against interim titlist Eric Morel. Top Rank's Carl Moretti said the fight will be televised on "Top Rank Live" (Fox Sports in Espanol) and most likely take place July 17 in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. "That is the most likely scenario," Moretti said. "It's not definite because the contracts have to be sent out, but that is the most likely scenario." Although Morel promoter Peter Rivera and promoter Tuto Zabala Jr. of All-Star Boxing showed up at the purse bid, Top Rank turned out to be the lone bidder, offering $102,500 at the ceremony overseen by WBO president Francisco "Paco" Valcárcel. "I saw the other two guys at the purse bid and thought they might be bidding, but when it came time to hand in the $1,000 check to participate in the bid, and I was the only one who handed in a check, I sorta figured I would win the bid," Moretti said. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5277582
