By Steve Kim

Top Rank announced the signing of Arturo Marquez, the son of former world champion, Raul Marquez, who made his pro debut on March 19th by stopping Justin Henderson in two rounds in Houston, Texas.

Marquez is scheduled to go on May 21st in Laredo, Texas and then June 25th in Dallas.

Top Rank plans to showcase Marquez often in 'the Lone Star State'.

"Absolutely, Texas is a leading boxing state, has a terrific commission, a great, great fan-base and one of my dear friends - who'll be at the fights Saturday - is Jerry Jones, who runs the AT&T Stadium, who owns the (Dallas) Cowboys. Jerry is very, very anxious to get back into boxing. He promoted two big fights of Manny Pacquiao a number of years ago and with Arturo and some of our other stars I'd like very much to go back to  AT&T Stadium to put on some very big shows for Jerry."

Marquez, hails from Houston which Arum points out,''is a huge boxing city. We have a lot of help on the promotion, George Foreman's sons work with us, Foreman Boys Promotions. They did a great job on the last show. So Texas is great, Laredo is a big, big fight town. So yeah, (Arturo) will fight in Texas."

Arum says that they will showcase Marquez on other shows across the country but that,"Texas is the home base."

"God willing, with Arturo's determination, believe me, our company Top Rank will make him into a superstar of the future," proclaimed the veteran promoter.