Miguel Berchelt: record, next fight and profile →
Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez are ready to enter the 2021 Fight of the Year race. A long-planned showdown between the pair of Mexican junior lightweights now has a date, with their 130-pound title fight being eyed for February 20 on an ESPN platform. Representatives from both camps as well as Top Rank officials confirmed the news to BoxingScene.com on Monday afternoon.
When Shakur Stevenson learned last month that Miguel Berchelt pulled out his fight against Oscar Valdez, Stevenson volunteered to step in on short notice. Valdez wasn’t interested in facing Stevenson instead of Berchelt on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Battling Berchelt represents a chance for Valdez to become a two-weight world champion, as they’ll fight for Berchelt’s WBC super featherweight title whenever their 12-round, 130-pound championship match is rescheduled.
The current World Boxing Council super featherweight world champion, Miguel Berchelt, has overcome his battle with COVID-19 and is ready for his mandatory defense against Oscar Valdez to be rescheduled.
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WBC super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt will not face Oscar Valdez in December, according to information revealed by ESPN Deportes. The outlet reports that Berchelt has tested positive for COVID-19 and is already under observation.
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum was just a couple of days removed from having promoted the highly significant fight between Teofimo Lopez and Vasiliy Lomachenko, which Lopez won by unanimous decision to unify lightweight world titles at the conference center of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, when he began to look ahead one of the other highly significant fights he will promote before the end of the year.
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Miguel Berchelt Photos Gallery - The highly anticipated fight between World Boxing Council super featherweight champion Miguel ”Alacran” Berchelt, and undefeated mandatory challenger Oscar Valdez, will tentatively take place on November 7 in Las Vegas.
Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez remain on course for their mouthwatering showdown, although it will require having to wait a little longer than recent plans had suggested. The pair of all-action Mexican sluggers are close to finalizing terms for a junior lightweight title fight which is now penciled in for December 12, two sources with knowledge of such talks informed BoxingScene.com on Thursday. The bout will air live on ESPN, likely to take place in Las Vegas although the venue remains among the items that remain in discussion.