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Premier Boxing Champions Rolls Into May With An Exciting Slate Of Shows

Featherweight Champion Leo Santa Cruz
Puts On Promoter’s Hat For FS1 & Fox Sports
Toe-to-Toe Dinsdag Show On Mei 2
Unbeaten Rising Star David Benavidez Tests
His Mettle Against Porky Medina In 168-Pound
World Title Eliminator On FS1 & Fox Sports
Op Saterdag, Mei 20
Undefeated Welterweight Star Errol Spence
Challenges Kell Brook For 147-pound Championship
In Sheffield, England in Premier Boxing Champions Action
On SHOWTIME, Mei 27
LAS VEGAS (Mei 1, 2017) – Die Premier Boxing Champions series will follow a very busy April with an extremely exciting month of May. The slate of shows will run the weight spectrum from featherweight to super middleweight.
The Premier Boxing Champions series schedule for May has a slate of shows where several boxers get an opportunity to step up to world title matches,” said Tim Smith, Vice President of Communications for Haymon Sports. “With so much on the line those kinds of challenges typically lead to action-packed, fan-friendly matches.
Kicking off the month is a thrilling 10-round lightweight clash between Ivan Redkach (20-2-1, 16 Uitklophoue) en voormalige wêreldkampioen Argenis Mendez (23-5-1, 12 Uitklophoue) op TOE-tot-toon DINSDAE op FS1 en Boxing Champions on FOX Deportes from the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, California on Mei 2. Televisie dekking begin by9 namiddag. EN/6 namiddag. PT.
The show will be staged by featherweight world champion Leo Santa Cruz’s Last Round Promotions, and will include an 8-round junior featherweight match between Brandon Figueroa en Luis Saavedra and a 6-round bantamweight match between Antonio Santa Cruz en Arturo Torres. The show will be a family affair as Brandon Figueroa is the younger brother of Omar Figueroa and Antonio is the cousin of Leo Santa Cruz.
David Benavidez (17-0, 16 Uitklophoue), an ascending star, vergader voormalige wêreld titel uitdager Rogelio “Porky” Medina (37-7, 31 Uitklophoue) in a super middleweight title elimination match from Laredo Energy Arena in Laredo, Texas op Mei 20. Benavidez will face the toughest test of his career against Medina, a veteran who has already fought for a world title. The winner will get a shot at the 168-pound world champion.
Televisie dekking sal begin by 10 namiddag. EN/7 namiddag. PT with unbeaten 126-pound contender Jorge Lara (28-0-2, 20 Uitklophoue) taking on hard-hitting brawler Mario Briones (28-5-2, 22 Uitklophoue) in a 10-round featherweight match.
Unbeaten top welterweight star Errol Spence, Jr. (21-0, 19 Uitklophoue) will travel from his home in Desoto, Texas to take on Kell Brook (36-1, 25 Uitklophoue) in his hometown at Bramall Lane Football Ground in Sheffield, England in a Premier Boxing Championship match on SHOWTIME.
In other non-PBC matches of interest to boxing fans in the month of May, Gervonta Davis (17-0, 18 Uitklophoue) will defend his 130-pound world title against No. 1 aanspraakmaker Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 Uitklophoue) from Copper Box Arena in London, England on SHOWTIME on Mei 20.
On the same night Gary Russell, Jr. (21-1, 16 Uitklophoue) will defend his 126-pound world title against Oscar Escandon (25-2, 17 Uitklophoue) at MGM National Harbor outside Washington D.C. op Showtime. In die mede-funksie Andre Dirrell (25-2, 16 Uitklophoue) sal voldoen Jose Uzcategui(26-1, 22 Uitklophoue) for the vacant 168-pound championship. Daarbenewens,Rances Barthelemy (25-0, 13 Uitklophoue) gesigte Kiryl Relikh (21-1, 19 Uitklophoue) in a lightweight world title eliminator.

BROOK gedwing om uit CHAVES STRYD

Veg om geherskeduleer na ribbesering treffers Sheffield ster

Kell Brook is uit sy IBF Wêreld Welterweight titel kragmeting met Diego Chaves gedwing om die Sheffield Arena op Saterdag, Oktober 24 na die handhawing van 'n ribbesering in sparring.

Spruit is gestig om die derde verdediging van sy gordel maak teen die gevaarlike Argentynse, maar met tyd spandeer in die hospitaal met die besering en die neem van die raad van die mediese kundiges volgende skanderings, die Sheffield ster sal nou kyk na Chaves later in die jaar in die gesig staar.

Die Sheffield show gaan voort met die Sky Sports debuut van Chris Eubank Jr bolaag van die wetsontwerp as hy verdedig sy WBA Tussentydse Wêreld Middelgewig titel teen Amerikaanse Tony Jeter, Gavin McDonnell verdedig sy Europese Pluim Gewichten band teen die voormalige Wêreldbeker titel uitdager Jeremy Parodi, saam met 'n gasheer van die opwindende jong talent op die wetsontwerp.

"Dit is altyd 'n bitter slag toe 'n besering veroorsaak 'n stryd om uitgestel, veral so naby aan die gebeurtenis,"Sê promotor Eddie Hearn. "Kell opgetel het 'n ribbesering in sparring gister en het die meeste van die dag by die hospitaal het gister. Kell was desperaat om te veg, maar dit was eenvoudig onmoontlik en ons sal nou kyk na die bout herskeduleer vir die einde van die jaar. "

Matchroom Boxing sal 'n volledige verklaring Maandag aangaande die besonderhede van volle en gedeeltelike terugbetalings terugbetalings aan die ondersteuners nog die bywoning van die show.

SHOWTIME® Kell BROOK VS beeldradio. DIEGO CHAVES IBF weltergewig WêRELDKAMPIOENSKAP OP Saterdag, Oktober. 24, Leef van SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

Showtime boks INTERNATIONAL® Spruit vs. Chaves Airs

Live by 5:45 namiddag. EN/ 2:45 namiddag. PT met 'n Encore Aanbieding by 9 namiddag. EN/PT

 

NEW YORK (Sewe. 29, 2015) - Showtime Sport® sal die IBF Welterweight World Championship teenwoordig tussen onoorwonne verdedigende kampioen Kell Brook en aanspraakmaker Diego Chaves op Saterdag, Oktober. 24, woon op Showtime by 5:45 namiddag. EN / 2:45 namiddag. PT uit Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, Engeland.

 

Die Showtime boks INTERNATIONAL aanbieding van die Sky Sports telecast will feature analysis from SHOWTIME boxing experts before and after the world championship showdown. An encore presentation of the bout will air on SHOWTIME later that evening at 9 namiddag. EN/PT.

 

"Ek is verheug dat my stryd met Chaves gaan in die VSA te word getoon," het Brook, who hails from Sheffield and will be the favorite in this fight. “I was thrilled when I saw my name in the top 10 van die lys in die Ring Magazine pond-vir-pond, en is nou die tyd dat ek nodig het om die ondersteuners in die VSA wys. dat ek 'n moet-sien fighter.

 

"Chaves is 'n alles-aksie bokser wat altyd kom om te veg, en dit is die perfekte styl vir my om te skyn oor Oktober. 24. I look forward to putting on an explosive performance and making the U.S. staan ​​op en neem kennis dat ek die beste welterweight in die wêreld. "

 

"Ons weet Brook is 'n taai vegter, baie tegniese,"Sê Diego Chaves. "Maar hy is nie 'n vinnige vegter en hy is maklik gepla deur die liggaam stoot, which is one of our strengths. I believe he has problems going backwards, en ons gaan om sy pons krag te toets, te.

 

"Ek voel dat my vertroue groei met hierdie uitdaging, knowing that I will have to face a champion like Kell Brook in his home country in England. This raises the stakes for me, going up there as an Argentine and as a huge underdog. We know all the bad blood that exists between Argentina and England and this will give me much more strength. I will make history if I defeat an Englishman in his own country.”

 

"Ons is opgewonde om in besigheid terug met Kell Brook, Matchroom Boxing en Eddie Hearn en om hierdie opwindende matchup van top lewer 10 welterweights die U.S. gehoor,"Sê Stephen Espinoza, Uitvoerende vise-president en hoofbestuurder van Showtime Sport. “Kell won the world title on SHOWTIME in an action-packed victory over Shawn Porter last fall, stigting van homself as een van die top welterweights in die wêreld - maar Diego Chaves is 'n geharde vegter wat ook bewys dat hy kan meeding met die elite van die afdeling ".

 

Spruit (35-0, 24 Uitklophoue) sal sy derde agtereenvolgende titel verdediging van te maak 2015 in sy geboorteland Engeland nadat hy aan die U.S. en onttroon voorheen onoorwonne IBF Welterweight wêreldkampioen Shawn Porter in Augustus 2014 op Showtime. The Sheffield native has scored knockouts in each of his defenses – a fourth round TKO of Jo Jo Dan op Maart 28 en 'n sesde ronde van TKO Frankie Gavin op Mei 30. Brook aims for a similar result against the veteran Chaves, wat 'n paar van die top-vegters het die gesig gestaar in die 147-pond-afdeling.

 

Chaves (23-2-1, 19 Uitklophoue), van Buenos Aires, Argentinië, het 'n pad vegter in die afgelope gevegte was, facing favored Americans on the road in three of his last four bouts. He challenged 147-pound titlist Keith Thurman in Julie 2013 en, nadat hy deur 'n uitklophou in tuisdorp veg in Argentinië, was voor op die telkaarte beoordelaars se teen Brandon Riosin Augustus 2014 until he was disqualified for an intentional elbow to the face. In sy laaste stryd, Chaves geveg om 'n gelykop uitslag teen meerjarige kampioen welterweight Timothy Bradley.