By Rick Reeno
BoxingScene.com has been advised that Adrien Broner (30-2, 22KOs) vs. Khabib Allakhverdiev (19-1, 9KOs) is heading to Showtime, who've been lacking as of late in terms of their Showtime Championship Boxing content - but the network is reportedly in discussions to finalize several televised events to close out the year.
Broner's backyard of Cincinnati is in the lead to host the event, with Las Vegas as the second option. The card takes place on October 3rd. The vacant WBA 'regular' junior welterweight title will be at stake.
As previously reported, the co-feature will have Jose Pedraza (20-0, 12 KO's) making the first defense of his world title against dangerous puncher Edner "Cherry Bomb" Cherry (34-6-2, 19 KO's).
Cherry has won his last six and last he knocked out Pedraza's countryman, Luis "El Artesano" Cruz (21-4, 16 KO's), in nine rounds in Tampa, Florida. Pedraza captured the vacant world title in June with a twelve round unanimous decision over Andrey Klimov.
