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Premier Boxing Champions Rolls Into May With An Exciting Slate Of Shows

Featherweight Champion Leo Santa Cruz
Puts On Promoter’s Hat For FS1 & Fox Sports
Toe-to-Toe Lachiwiri Show On Mulole 2
Unbeaten Rising Star David Benavidez Tests
His Mettle Against Porky Medina In 168-Pound
World Title Eliminator On FS1 & Fox Sports
Pa Loweruka, Mulole 20
Undefeated Welterweight Star Errol Spence
Challenges Kell Brook For 147-pound Championship
In Sheffield, England in Premier Boxing Champions Action
On SHOWTIME, Mulole 27
Las Vegas (Mulole 1, 2017) – The Premier Maseŵera a nkhonya odziwa series will follow a very busy April with an extremely exciting month of May. The slate of shows will run the weight spectrum from featherweight to super middleweight.
The Premier Boxing Champions series schedule for May has a slate of shows where several boxers get an opportunity to step up to world title matches,” said Tim Smith, Vice President of Communications for Haymon Sports. “With so much on the line those kinds of challenges typically lead to action-packed, fan-friendly matches.
Kicking off the month is a thrilling 10-round lightweight clash between Ivan Redkach (20-2-1, 16 Ko) ndi kale lonse ngwazi Argenis Mendez (23-5-1, 12 Ko) pa Chala-A-chala Lachiwiri pa FS1 ndi Nkhonya odziwa on FOX Deportes from the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, California on Mulole 2. Televised nkhani umayamba9 p.m. AND/6 p.m. PT.
The show will be staged by featherweight world champion Leo Santa Cruz’s Last Round Promotions, and will include an 8-round junior featherweight match between Brandon Figueroa ndipo Luis Saavedra and a 6-round bantamweight match between Antonio Santa Cruz ndipo Arturo Torres. The show will be a family affair as Brandon Figueroa is the younger brother of Omar Figueroa and Antonio is the cousin of Leo Santa Cruz.
David Benavidez (17-0, 16 Ko), an ascending star, adzakomana kale mutu dziko akunyoza RogelioPorkyMedina (37-7, 31 Ko) in a super middleweight title elimination match from Laredo Energy Arena in Laredo, Texas pa Mulole 20. Benavidez will face the toughest test of his career against Medina, a veteran who has already fought for a world title. The winner will get a shot at the 168-pound world champion.
Televised Kuphunzira lidzayamba 10 p.m. AND/7 p.m. PT with unbeaten 126-pound contender Jorge Lara (28-0-2, 20 Ko) taking on hard-hitting brawler Mario Briones (28-5-2, 22 Ko) in a 10-round featherweight match.
Unbeaten top welterweight star Errol Spence, Jr. (21-0, 19 Ko) will travel from his home in Desoto, Texas to take on Kell Brook (36-1, 25 Ko) in his hometown at Bramall Lane Football Ground in Sheffield, England in a Premier Boxing Championship match on SHOWTIME.
In other non-PBC matches of interest to boxing fans in the month of May, Gervonta Davis (17-0, 18 Ko) will defend his 130-pound world title against No. 1 contender Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 Ko) from Copper Box Arena in London, England on SHOWTIME on Mulole 20.
On the same night Gary Russell, Jr. (21-1, 16 Ko) will defend his 126-pound world title against Oscar Escandon (25-2, 17 Ko) at MGM National Harbor outside Washington D.C. pa Showtime. Mu Co-Mbali Andre Dirrell (25-2, 16 Ko) adzakumana Jose Uzcategui(26-1, 22 Ko) for the vacant 168-pound championship. Kuwonjezera,Rances Barthelemy (25-0, 13 Ko) Nkhope Kiryl Relikh (21-1, 19 Ko) in a lightweight world title eliminator.