WBC Welterweight World Champion Shawn Porter Makes First Title Defense Against Mandatory Challenger Yordenis Ugas in Premier Boxing Champions on FOX & FOX Deportes Main Event
CARSON, Califòrnia. (Març 4, 2019) – Multiple-division world champion Robert Guerrero returns to the ring to battle Colombia’s Hevinson Herrera en una baralla de pes welter a 10 assalts, while former featherweight world champion Jesús Cuellar duels Colombia’s Carlos Padilla in an eight-round lightweight bout to lead a packed undercard on Saturday, Març 9 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Califòrnia.
The event is headlined by PBC on FOX and FOX Deportes show that will see WBC Welterweight World Champion Shawn Porter making his first title defense in primetime against mandatory challenger Yordenis Ugas in the main event of the broadcast beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 PM. PT. Televised prelims on FS1 feature undefeated bantamweight prospect Damien Vázquez battles former world champion Juan Carlos Payano in an eight or 10-round attraction, while unbeaten welterweight prospect and 2016 Olímpic lituà Eimantas Stanionis s'enfrontarà un cop vençut Sammy Figueroa in an eight round showdown on the telecast beginning at 6:30 p.m. I / 3:30 p.m. PT.
En una altra acció del respatller, invicte pes lleuger Rolando Romero (7-0, 6 KOs) es reuneix Nicolas A. Velazquez (10-4, 3 KOs) in a four or six-round match that will be the TV swing bout on the FOX telecast and unbeaten featherweight Isaac Avelar(15-0, 10 KOs) clashes with Juan Antonio Lopez (12-5, 4 KOs) in a six or eight-round match that will be the TV swing bout on the FS1 prelims broadcast.
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The 35-year-old Guerrero (34-6-1, 19 KOs) has a rich career filled with intriguing matches against some of the best boxers of this generation – Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Keith Thurman, Danny García – and has won titles at featherweight, súper ploma, lightweight and welterweight. Fighting out of Gilroy, Califòrnia, he will be taking on Herrera (24-16-1, 18 KOs) following a knockout victory over Adam Mates in December.
Cuellar (28-3, 21 KOs), who is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, won an interim featherweight title by defeating Claudio Marrero in 2013 that was eventually made the regular title as he made five successful defenses. He dropped the title the next year with a split decision loss to Abner Mares and followed that up with a TKO loss in a junior lightweight championship match against Gervonta Davis last April. The 33-year-old Cuellar is seeking to get back into the world title picture but first will have to get past Padilla (16-9-1, 10 KOs).
In other undercard bouts unbeaten super featherweight Víktor Slavinskyi (7-0-1, 4 KOs) porta a Mèxic de Angel Morrell (11-11-2, 4 KOs) en un partit de sis assalts, super featherweight prospect José Pérez (6-1, 2 KOs) batalles Carlos Trevino (6-13-1, 1 KO) en un combat de quatre rondes, unbeaten super lightweight prospect Ruben Rodriguez (4-0, 2 KOs) es reuneix Jeremiah De Los Santos de Brownsville, Texas, who will be making his pro debut in the four-round bout.
Rounding out the action is unbeaten super lightweight prospect Justin Cardonadueling Phillip Bounds in a four-round affair, plus a pair of lightweights will be making their pro debuts as David Gomez de Huntington Park, California battles George Carranza in a four-round fight and Gabriel Muratalla de Fontana, California steps in for a four-round lightweight fight against Bryann Pérez.
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