Adrian Curiel: record, next fight and profile →
Christian Medina made his first bantamweight title defense Friday, winning a unanimous decision over Adrian Curiel in a homecoming fight at Domo Alcalde in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Christian Medina and Adrian Curiel made weight for Friday's WBO bantamweight title fight at Domo Alcalde in Guadalajara, Mexico.
BoxingScene has confirmed that recently crowned WBO 118lbs titlist Christian Medina is nearly set to risk his belt against countryman and former 108lbs titlist Adrian Curiel.
Nunez will be making the first defense of the IBF junior lightweight title that he won in May. He will headline in his hometown of Los Mochis, Mexico.
In June, the cut and bloodied Sunny Edwards returned from the occasion of his first defeat by beating Adrian Curiel. He then sat down to watch Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez, who inflicted that defeat, impress in victory over Juan Francisco Estrada. In September he will again be ringside when his brother Charlie fights Thomas Essomba, who he manages, and in November he hopes to fight his leading domestic Galal Yafai. He discussed all, in an extensive Q&A.
Sunny Edwards believes that Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez has proven himself capable of “challenging” Naoya Inoue.
Sunny Edwards faces another lengthy lay-off despite comprehensively outboxing Mexico’s Adrian Curiel on Saturday night
Sunny Edwards returned from his first defeat – a December flyweight title loss to main-event fighter Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez – and cruised to a unanimous decision victory over Adrian Curiel on Saturday in Phoenix.
Galal Yafai “expects” to fight Sunny Edwards next – if Edwards defeats Mexico’s Adrien Curiel on Saturday evening. Edwards, 28, returns from the first defeat of his career – by Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez for the IBF and WBO flyweight titles – tonight when he fights Curiel at the Footprint Center in Phoenix on the undercard of Rodriguez’s WBC super-flyweight title fight with Juan Francisco Estrada.
With Sunny Edwards set to return from his first career loss Saturday at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, his brother, Charlie, says, "He’s still full of confidence and still feels like he’s one of the best."