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, Халиф. (Март 4, 2019) – Multiple-division world champion Robert Guerrero returns to the ring to battle Colombia’s Hevinson Herrera в 10-кръг полусредна категория мач, while former featherweight world champion Исус Куеляр duels Colombia’s Карлос Падиля in an eight-round lightweight bout to lead a packed undercard on Saturday, Март 9 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Калифорния.
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 Йорденис Угаш 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 Деймиън Васкес battles former world champion Juan Carlos 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. И / 3:30 p.m. PT.
В друга undercard действие, непобеден лек Роландо Ромеро (7-0, 6 Нокаута) отговаря Nicolas A. Веласкес (10-4, 3 Нокаута) in a four or six-round match that will be the TV swing bout on the FOX telecast and unbeaten featherweight Исак Avelar(15-0, 10 Нокаута) clashes with Juan Antonio Lopez (12-5, 4 Нокаута) 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 Нокаута) has a rich career filled with intriguing matches against some of the best boxers of this generation – Флойд Мейуедър, Jr., Keith Търман, Дани Гарсия – and has won titles at featherweight, супер перо, lightweight and welterweight. Fighting out of Gilroy, Калифорния, he will be taking on Herrera (24-16-1, 18 Нокаута) following a knockout victory over Adam Mates in December.
Куеляр (28-3, 21 Нокаута), who is from Buenos Aires, Аржентина, 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 Нокаута).
In other undercard bouts unbeaten super featherweight Виктор Slavinskyi (7-0-1, 4 Нокаута) отвежда на Мексико Angel Morrell (11-11-2, 4 Нокаута) в шест кръг мач, перспектива в супер полутежка категория Жозе Перес (6-1, 2 Нокаута) битки Carlos Trevino (6-13-1, 1 KO) в четири кръг мач на, unbeaten super lightweight prospect Ruben Rodriguez (4-0, 2 Нокаута) отговаря 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 Cardonaдуел 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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