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
Карсон, Халіф. (Березня 4, 2019) – Multiple-division world champion Роберт Герреро returns to the ring to battle Colombia’s Hevinson Herrera в напівсередній вазі бій 10-раундовому, while former featherweight world champion Ісус Куельяр duels Colombia’s Карлос Паділья in an eight-round lightweight bout to lead a packed undercard on Saturday, Березня 9 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Каліфорнія.
The event is headlined by PBC on FOX and FOX Deportes show that will see WBC Welterweight World Champion Шон Портер making his first title defense in primetime against mandatory challenger Йорденіс агаси 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 Деміен Vazquez battles former world champion Хуан Карлос Паяно in an eight or 10-round attraction, while unbeaten welterweight prospect and 2016 Lithuanian Olympian Eimantas Stanionis will face once-beaten Sammy Figueroa in an eight round showdown on the telecast beginning at 6:30 p.m. І / 3:30 p.m. PT.
В інших андеркарті дії, Непереможний легкий Rolando Romero (7-0, 6 КО) відповідає Nicolas A. Velazquez (10-4, 3 КО) 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 КО) clashes with Juan Antonio Lopez (12-5, 4 КО) 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 КО) has a rich career filled with intriguing matches against some of the best boxers of this generation – Флойд Мейвезер, Молодший, Кіт Турман, Денні Гарсія – and has won titles at featherweight, супер напівлегкій, lightweight and welterweight. Fighting out of Gilroy, Каліфорнія, he will be taking on Herrera (24-16-1, 18 КО) following a knockout victory over Adam Mates in December.
Куельяр (28-3, 21 КО), who is from Buenos Aires, Аргентина, 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 КО).
In other undercard bouts unbeaten super featherweight Viktor Slavinskyi (7-0-1, 4 КО) бере на Мексики Angel Morrell (11-11-2, 4 КО) о шостій круглих матчу, супер-напівлегка перспектива Хосе Перес (6-1, 2 КО) бої Carlos Trevino (6-13-1, 1 KO) in a four-round bout, непереможна суперлегка вагова перспектива Ruben Rodriguez (4-0, 2 КО) відповідає Jeremiah De Los Santos of Brownsville, Техас, 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 Bryann Perez.
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