By: Sean Crose
The 34-1 Jermell Charlo will be facing the 17-0-1 Brian Castano at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas Saturday night. At stake will be a whole slew of title belts as well as the position of top super welterweight in the world. The fight is the main attraction of a Showtime card that will start airing at 9PM eastern time. This can truly be called a battle where two of the best fighters out there are facing off and leaving everything out on the line. That makes this weekend’s bout important – and interesting.
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Showtime’s June 19th main event between Jermall Charlo and Juan Macias Montiel may be hot garbage, but the co-main looks fun. Julius Julianis reports that power-punching Uruguayan prospect Amilcar Vidal will meet young veteran Immanuwel Aleem in an intriguing middleweight crossroads match.
The 25-year-old Vidal (12-0, 11 KO) has ended 10 of his 12 pro fights inside of two rounds, but his opposition has yet to graduate past prospect fodder even if a few of them had similarly fluffy unbeaten records. Aleem (18-2-2, 11 KO), out of action since a December 2019 majority decision loss to Ronald Ellis, represents a considerable step up in class, having notably stopped then-unbeaten Ievgen Khytrov and fought Matt Korobov to an (admittedly bogus) draw.
1980s
Bernard Madoff, a renowned Wall Street trader, initiates a scheme to defraud his investment clients. He eventually accepts billions of dollars from individual investors, charitable organisations, pension funds, hedge funds, and others. He claims that his sophisticated trading and hedging strategy will produce investment gains in all market conditions, though securities regulators later say he never traded any shares for client accounts.
May 2000
Massachusetts financial analyst Harry Markopolos tries to alert financial regulators to Madoff s fraud, saying his alleged trading strategy could never yield such continuously positive returns. The US securities and exchange commission ignores his warning several more times over the next few years.