Unbeaten Maravillabox Promotions’ Prospect Jon Fernandez To Face Juan Reyes; Live på SHOWTIME® From Turning Stone Resort Casino In Verona, N.Y..
2017 Hall of Fame Inductees Barry Tompkins and Steve Farhood To Be Joined By Fellow Hall of Famers Al Bernstein and Jimmy Lennon Jr.
NEW YORK (Juni 2, 2017) – SHOWTIME Sports® has announced undefeated Maravillabox Promotions’ prospect Jon Fernandez will meet super featherweight Juan Reyes in an eight-round matchup in the opening bout of ShoBox: Den nye generation Fredag, Juni 9, bor på SHOWTIME (10:30 p.m. OG/PT), fra Turning Stone Resort Casino i Verona, N.Y..
The addition of Sergio Martinez’s protégé, Jon “Jonfer” Fernandez, (12-0, 10 KOS), in a 130-pound scrap against Juan “Pochito” Reyes (14-3-3, 2 KO s) upgrades the previously announced ShoBox to a tripleheader.
kortet, som finder sted i løbet af 2017 Hall of Fame Weekend where longtime ShoBox analysts Barry Tompkins and Steve Farhood will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, byder på ubesejrede super letvægtere Regis "Rougarou" Prograis (19-0, 16 KOS) og Joel Diaz Jr. (23-0, 19 KOS) i den 10-round main event. The winner will be thrust from talented prospect to legitimate contender. Both fighters have developed on the series—this will be Prograis’ fourth start and Diaz’s third.
I co-feature, ubesejret canadiske supermellemvægter Steve Rolls (15-0, 9 KOS) gør sin anden start på ShoBoxda han står over for den farlige Demond Nicholson (17-1-1, 16 KOS) i en otte-round Bout.
Billetter til arrangementet, co-promoveret af DiBella Entertainment (DBE) og AASHA Record Breakers, er prissat til $65 for ringside, $50, $40 og $30 (kan være underlagt yderligere gebyrer) og fås i Turning Stone Box Office, ved at ringe til 877-833-SHOW, eller online på Ticketmaster.com. Døre åbner på 6:30 p.m., med den første kamp planlagt til 7:30 p.m.
“This is another big opportunity for me to show everybody that I am one of the best super featherweights in the world,” said Fernandez, who will fight for just the third time in the United States. “The fight against Garza was an amazing experience and I was happy to give the audience in the U.S. such an exciting performance.
“In my last fight, I won the Spanish title, something that I am very proud to have achieved, now I will travel back to the U.S. to face anybody that my promoter puts in front of me. I am very confident in my skills and my team is doing great work with my career.”
“This is the opportunity I have been waiting for my entire career,” Said Reyes. “I make real wars out of my fights because that is my style and it works for me. Jon Fernandez will have his hands full because I am coming to win.”
“I want to thank to Lou DiBella and SHOWTIME for another great opportunity for Jon Fernández,” said Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez, promoter and former unified middleweight world champion. “Jonfer is a talented and hard-working young man that will archive great things. He’s destined for greatness.”
“With his potential and work ethic, I have no doubt he’ll be a world champion one day. I will take it a step further and say that he will become next pound-for-pound champion. He is ready to win this fight by knockout and call out the top names in his weight class.”
The 21-year old Fernandez is coming off of a second-round TKO victory versus previously unbeaten Ismael Garcia to seize the Spanish 130-pound title in his hometown of Bilbao, País Vasco, Spanien, på April 21. In his last stateside appearance on Feb.10 af dette år, Fernandez made his ShoBox debut with an impressive third-round knockout against formerly once-beaten Ernesto Garza in Miami, Okla.
Reyes is a 27-year-old from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, now training out of Bell Gardens, Calif. He will be making hisShoBox and New York debut—he has never fought outside of Southern California. Reyes’ last two fights resulted in unanimous decision wins as he beat Miguel Angel Mendoza on Marts 3 of this year and Cesar Villarraga in October 2016.
Fellow Hall of Famers Al Bernstein og Jimmy Lennon Jr. vil deltage i Farhood og Tompkins i luften under den særlige Hall of Fame-udgave af den prospektorienterede serie. Lennon Jr. vender tilbage til Canasota for posthum induktion af sin far, world-renowned ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Sr.
Tompkins vil kalde ShoBox action fra ringside med Farhood og den tidligere verdensmester Raul Marquez, der fungerer som ekspertanalytikere. Den udøvende producer er Gordon Hall, hvor Rich Gaughan producerer og Rick Phillips instruerer.
Tompkins and Farhood will be inducted in the “Observer” category søndag som en del af en 2017 klasse med overskriften af bokse-storheder Evander Holyfield, Marco Antonio Barrera og Johnny Tapia.
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