Wilmington, DE (Urtarrilaren 26, 2017)–World ranked junior middleweight Kanat Islam will battle tough Brazilian Robson Assis in the scheduled 10-round co-feature bout on Friday night, otsailaren 17an at Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware.
The bout will support the previously announced 12-round WBF Cruiserweight title bout featuring legendary Roy Jones Jr. borrokalari Bobby Gunn.
The show will be show live on Pay-Per-View.
Islam of Kazakhstan, who now calls Pahokee, Florida home has a record of 22-0 batera 18 knockouts and is currently ranked number-4 by the WBA, number-5 by the WBO and number-15 by the IBF.
The 32 year-old Islam is a 5 year-professional who holds victories over Humberto Toledo (41-8-2), former world title challenger Francisco Cordero (29-2), Juan De Angel (18-3-1) and his last bout when he went home to Kazakhstan and pounded out a 12 round unanimous decision over Patrick Allottey (34-2) on October 29th.
Islam is a former WBA Fedecaribe and current WBA Fedelatin and WBO Inter-Continental Super Welterweight champion.
Assis of Sao Paulo, Brazil has a record of 16-3 batera 9 knockouts. Assis is a former Brazilian Welterweight champion and former interim WBO Latino champion.
He won the Interim WBO Latino title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Christian Romero (13-3) and retained with a 12-round unanimous decision over Hector Santana (21-4).
Assis’ bakarrik 3
losses have come to world class fighters Jeff Horn (8-0-1), Samuel Vargas (22-2-1),
and his last bout when he was stopped by Steven Butler (16-0-1) on
July 7th Montrealen.
In a 10-round battle for the WBF Junior Lightweight International championship, Frank De Alba hartuko on Ivan Najera.
DeAlba, 29 years-old of Reading, PA erregistro bat dauka 20-2-2 batera 9 knockouts.
The 6-year pro has wins over Andrew Bentley (1-0), Benjamin Burgos (1-0), Benjamin Gomez Uribe (16-3), and is last bout when he stopped Kiun Evans (12-2-1) in 2 erronda Irailaren 9an Reading, PA.
De Alba is also a former UBF All-Americas Super Featherweight champion.
Najera, 24 years-old of San Antonio, Texas erregistro bat dauka 16-3 batera 8 knockouts.
Najera is a 6-year professional, and has quality victories over Pedro Martinez (2-0), Jerry Fuentes(2-0), Angel Hernandez (8-1) & Stan Martyniouk (13-1). Najera has stepped up the competition but has fallen short to Felix Verdejo (17-0), Saul Rodriguez (18-0-1) and his last bout when he was stopped in 2 rounds by former world title challenger Raymundo Beltran on maiatzaren 21ean Laredon, Texas.
WBC Asian Council Welterweight champion Neeraj Goyal (8-2-2, 2 KO en) of Chandigarh, India will make his American debut against an opponent to be named in bout scheduled for 8-rounds
Also seeing action will be local favorite Joey Tiberi, Jr.. (13-2, 6 KO en) Newark, Delaware takes on Bryan Timmons (5-8, 5 KO en) lightweight bout scheduled for 6-rounds.
Samuel Seah (9-1-1, 3 KO en) Philadelphiako egingo borrokatu Jesus Flowers (9-20-1, 1 KO) Fort Myers of, Florida in a 6-round super lightweight bout.
Bouts 4-txandan:
Henry Stewart (2-0, 1 KO) of Orillia Ontario, Canada will take on an opponent to be named.
In a Cruiserweight battle for Delaware bragging rights, Dan Biddle (9-5, 5 KO en) of Wilmington will take on Lamont Singletary (7-4, 4 KO en) of Dover.
Boladan middleweight Eddie Ortiz (2-0-1, 2 KO en) San Antonio, Texas will take on an opponent to be named.
Scheduled to be in attendance are former Heavyweight champions Larry Holmes, Tim Witherspoon, Michael Spinks and Tyson Fury