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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 Martes Show On Maio 2
Unbeaten Rising Star David Benavidez Tests
His Mettle Against Porky Medina In 168-Pound
World Title Eliminator On FS1 & FOX Sports
En Sábado, Maio 20
Undefeated Welterweight Star Errol Spence
Challenges Kell Brook For 147-pound Championship
In Sheffield, England in Premier Boxing Champions Action
On SHOWTIME, Maio 27
LAS VEGAS (Maio 1, 2017) – O Premier Boxeo League 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 Kos) e ex-campión do mundo Argenis Mendez (23-5-1, 12 Kos) en Martes toe-de-toe en FS1 e Boxeo League on FOX Deportes from the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, California on Maio 2. Cobertura televisada comeza en9 p.m. E/6 p.m. 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 e Luis Saavedra and a 6-round bantamweight match between Antonio Santa Cruz e 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 Kos), an ascending star, reunirase ex desafiante ao título mundial RogelioPorkyMedina (37-7, 31 Kos) in a super middleweight title elimination match from Laredo Energy Arena in Laredo, Texas en Maio 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.
Televisado cuberta terá comezo ás 10 p.m. E/7 p.m. PT with unbeaten 126-pound contender Jorge Lara (28-0-2, 20 Kos) taking on hard-hitting brawler Mario Briones (28-5-2, 22 Kos) in a 10-round featherweight match.
Unbeaten top welterweight star Errol Spence, JR. (21-0, 19 Kos) will travel from his home in Desoto, Texas to take on Kell Brook (36-1, 25 Kos) 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 Kos) will defend his 130-pound world title against No. 1 contendor Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 Kos) from Copper Box Arena in London, England on SHOWTIME on Maio 20.
On the same night Gary Russell, JR. (21-1, 16 Kos) will defend his 126-pound world title against Oscar Escandon (25-2, 17 Kos) at MGM National Harbor outside Washington D.C. na canle Showtime. Na co-metragem Andre Dirrell (25-2, 16 Kos) vai reunirse Jose Uzcategui(26-1, 22 Kos) for the vacant 168-pound championship. Adicionalmente,Rances Barthélemy (25-0, 13 Kos) rostros Kiryl Relikh (21-1, 19 Kos) in a lightweight world title eliminator.

BROOK forzado a saír do CHAVES Clash

Loitar para ser remarcada tras lesión na costela bate Sheffield estrela

Kell Brook foi forzado a saír do seu enfrontamento título IBF Welterweight do mundo con Diego Chaves no Sheffield Arena en Sábado, Outubro 24 despois de sufrir unha lesión na costela en sparring.

Brook foi axustado para facer a terceira defensa do seu cinto contra o arxentino perigoso, pero ter o tempo gastado no hospital coa lesión e tendo o consello de expertos médicos seguinte Scans, a estrela Sheffield pode agora ollar para afrontar Chaves a finais do ano.

O show Sheffield vai adiante coa estrea Sky Sports de Chris Eubank Jr na parte superior da bill como el defende o seu título provisional Mundial Middleweight WBA contra o americano Tony Jeter, Gavin McDonnell defende súa cinta Bantamweight Europea contra o ex desafiante ao título mundial Jeremy Parodi, xunto cunha serie de novos talentos no proxecto de lei.

"É sempre un duro golpe cando unha lesión provoca unha loita para ser adiada, especialmente tan preto do evento,"Dixo o fiscal Eddie Hearn. "Kell colleu unha lesión na costela en sparring onte e pasou a maior parte do día no hospital onte. Kell estaba desesperado para loitar, pero era simplemente imposible e imos agora mirar para remarcar a loita para o fin de ano. "

Matchroom Boxeo vai facer unha declaración completa o luns sobre detalles de reembolsos totais e reembolsos parciais para os fans aínda presentes no concerto.

SHOWTIME® para televisionar Kell Brook VS. DIEGO CHAVES IBF Welterweight CAMPIONATO MUNDIAL DE SÁBADO, Outubro. 24, VIVIR DE SHEFFIELD, INGLATERRA

Showtime Boxing INTERNATIONAL® Brook vs. Claves Airs

Live at 5:45 p.m. E/ 2:45 p.m. PT cunha presentación no Encore 9 p.m. E/PT

 

Nova York (Sete. 29, 2015) - Showtime Sports® presentará o Campionato do Mundo IBF Welterweight entre o actual campión invicto Kell Brook e contender Diego Chaves en Sábado, Outubro. 24, vivir ALTURA DE COMEZAR en 5:45 p.m. E / 2:45 p.m. PT a partir de Motorpoint Arena en Sheffield, Inglaterra.

 

O Showtime Boxing INTERNATIONAL presentación do 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 p.m. E/PT.

 

"Estou moi feliz que a miña loita con Chaves será mostrado en EEUU", dixo 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 da lista pound-for-pound na revista The Ring, e agora é o momento que eu teño para dar a coñecer aos fans en Estados Unidos. que eu son un loitador imperdible.

 

"Chaves é un boxer todo-acción que sempre vén para loitar, e que é o estilo perfecto para min a brillar en outubro. 24. I look forward to putting on an explosive performance and making the U.S. plantexa-se e tomar nota que eu son o mellor medio-medio do mundo ".

 

"Sabemos Brook é un loitador moi duro, moi técnico,", Dixo Diego Chaves. "Pero non é un loitador rápido e é facilmente incómodo por socos no corpo, which is one of our strengths. I believe he has problems going backwards, e nós estamos indo a probar o seu poder de perforación, moi.

 

"Eu sinto que a miña confianza medra con este reto, 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.”

 

"Estamos entusiasmados por estar de volta na empresa con Kell Brook, Matchroom Boxeo e Eddie Hearn e entregar este enfrontamento emocionante de arriba 10 Welterweights ao U.S. público,", Dixo Stephen Espinoza, Executive Vice President and General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports. “Kell won the world title on SHOWTIME in an action-packed victory over Shawn Porter last fall, establecendo-se como un dos mellores welterweights do mundo - pero Diego chaves é un loitador resistente que tamén demostrou que pode competir coa elite da división ".

 

Ribeiro (35-0, 24 Kos) fará a súa terceira defensa do título consecutivo de 2015 na súa Inglaterra natal despois de chegar á U.S. e destronar previamente invicto IBF Welterweight Campión do Mundo Shawn Porter en agosto 2014 na canle Showtime. The Sheffield native has scored knockouts in each of his defenses – a fourth round TKO of Jo Jo Dan en Marzo 28 e unha sexta rolda TKO de Frankie Gavin en Maio 30. Brook aims for a similar result against the veteran Chaves, que enfrontou algúns dos mellores loitadores na división de £ 147.

 

Claves (23-2-1, 19 Kos), de Bos Aires, Arxentina, foi un guerreiro da estrada en loitas recentes, facing favored Americans on the road in three of his last four bouts. He challenged 147-pound titlist Keith Thurman en xullo 2013 e, tras vencer por KO nunha cidade natal loitar en Arxentina, estaba á cabeza en decisión dos xuíces contra Brandon Ríosen agosto 2014 until he was disqualified for an intentional elbow to the face. Na súa última loita, Claves loitou para un empate contra o campión dos medios perenne Timothy Bradley.