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, קליפורניה. (מרץ 4, 2019) – Multiple-division world champion רוברט גררו returns to the ring to battle Colombia’s Hevinson Herrera בהתקף welterweight 10-עגול, while former featherweight world champion ישו Cuellar duels Colombia’s קרלוס פדילה in an eight-round lightweight bout to lead a packed undercard on Saturday, מרץ 9 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, קליפורניה.
The event is headlined by PBC on FOX and FOX Deportes show that will see WBC Welterweight World Champion שון פורטר making his first title defense in primetime against mandatory challenger יודניס אוגאס in the main event of the broadcast beginning at 8 p.m. p.m ET / 5. PT. Televised prelims on FS1 feature undefeated bantamweight prospect דמיאן ואסקס battles former world champion חואן קרלוס פייאנו 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. ו / 3:30 p.m. PT.
בפעולה undercard אחרת, בלתי מנוצח קל רולנדו רומרו (7-0, 6 קוס) פוגש Nicolas A. Velazquez (10-4, 3 קוס) in a four or six-round match that will be the TV swing bout on the FOX telecast and unbeaten featherweight יצחק אוולר(15-0, 10 קוס) clashes with Juan Antonio Lopez (12-5, 4 קוס) 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 קוס) has a rich career filled with intriguing matches against some of the best boxers of this generation – פלויד Mayweather, ג 'וניור, קית 'תורמן, דני גרסיה – and has won titles at featherweight, משקל נוצה סופר, lightweight and welterweight. Fighting out of Gilroy, קליפורניה, he will be taking on Herrera (24-16-1, 18 קוס) following a knockout victory over Adam Mates in December.
Cuellar (28-3, 21 קוס), who is from Buenos Aires, ארגנטינה, 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 קוס).
In other undercard bouts unbeaten super featherweight Viktor Slavinskyi (7-0-1, 4 קוס) לוקח על מקסיקו של Angel Morrell (11-11-2, 4 קוס) במשחק שש-עגול, super featherweight prospect ז'וזה פרז (6-1, 2 קוס) קרבות Carlos Trevino (6-13-1, 1 KO) בהתמודדות עם ארבעה סיבובים, unbeaten super lightweight prospect Ruben Rodriguez (4-0, 2 קוס) פוגש Jeremiah De Los Santos of Brownsville, טקסס, 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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