Wilmington, DE (Januari 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, 17 Feb di Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware.
The bout will support the previously announced 12-round WBF Cruiserweight title bout featuring legendary Roy Jones Jr. bertarung 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 dengan 18 knockouts and is currently ranked number-4 by the WBA, number-5 by the WBO and number-15 by the IBF.
Yang 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) pada 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 dengan 9 KO. 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’ hanya 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) pada
July 7th di Montreal.
In a 10-round battle for the WBF Junior Lightweight International championship, Frank De Alba akan mengambil Ivan Najera.
DeAlba, 29 years-old of Reading, PA mempunyai rekod 20-2-2 dengan 9 KO.
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) dalam 2 pusingan pada September 9th di Reading, PA.
De Alba is also a former UBF All-Americas Super Featherweight champion.
Najera, 24 years-old of San Antonio, Texas mempunyai rekod 16-3 dengan 8 KO.
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 Mei 21 di Laredo, Texas.
WBC Asian Council Welterweight champion Neeraj Goyal (8-2-2, 2 Ini KO) 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 Ini KO) Newark, Delaware takes on Bryan Timmons (5-8, 5 Ini KO) lightweight bout scheduled for 6-rounds.
Samuel Seah (9-1-1, 3 Ini KO) Philadelphia akan bertarung Yesus Bunga (9-20-1, 1 KO) Fort Myers, Florida in a 6-round super lightweight bout.
Dalam serangan 4 pusingan:
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 Ini KO) of Wilmington will take on Lamont Singletary (7-4, 4 Ini KO) of Dover.
Middleweight tanpa ditewaskan Eddie Ortiz (2-0-1, 2 Ini KO) 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
