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, Calif. (Qadam tashlamoq 4, 2019) – Multiple-division world champion Robert Guerrero returns to the ring to battle Colombia’s Hevinson Herrera 10-tur ikkinchi yarim og'ir vazn Butning ichida, while former featherweight world champion Iso Cuellar duels Colombia’s Karlos Padilla in an eight-round lightweight bout to lead a packed undercard on Saturday, Qadam tashlamoq 9 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Kaliforniya.
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 p.m. PT. Televised prelims on FS1 feature undefeated bantamweight prospect Damien Vazquez battles former world champion Xuan Karlos Payano in an eight or 10-round attraction, while unbeaten welterweight prospect and 2016 Lithuanian Olympian Eimmans Stenionis will face once-beaten Sammy Figueroa in an eight round showdown on the telecast beginning at 6:30 p.m. VA / 3:30 p.m. PT.
Boshqa undercard kurashlarda, engil Mag'lubiyatsiz Rolando Romero (7-0, 6 KOS) javob Nicolas A. Velzezez (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) bilan to'qnashuvlar 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., Keyt Turman, Danny Garcia – and has won titles at featherweight, super tuklar, lightweight and welterweight. Fighting out of Gilroy, Kaliforniya, 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 Viktor Slavinskyi (7-0-1, 4 KOS) Mexico ning oladi Angel Morrell (11-11-2, 4 KOS) olti tomonlama o'yinda, super featherweight prospect Jose Perez (6-1, 2 KOS) janglar Karlos Trevino (6-13-1, 1 KO) in a four-round bout, unbeaten super lightweight prospect Ruben Rodriguez (4-0, 2 KOS) javob Jeremiah De Los Santos of 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 of Huntington Park, California battles George Carranza in a four-round fight and Gabriel Muratalla of Fontana, California steps in for a four-round lightweight fight against Bryyn Peres.
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