Diego De La Hoya Ready For Tough Ramiro Robles
May 7, 2015 • 5:35 AM ET
By Francisco Salazar
Junior featherweight Diego De La Hoya will now fight Ramiro Robles on Thursday night, manager Joel De La Hoya told BoxingScene.com late Monday night.
The eight round bout will take place at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif. and will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports Deportes, beginning at 10 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. PT.
De La Hoya (9-0, 6 KOs) is the younger cousin of Oscar De La Hoya. In his last bout on Feb. 27, De La Hoya won a one-sided eight round unanimous decision over former world title challenger Manuel Roman.
Robles (12-2-1, 7 KOs) has not fought since July 9, when he gave a good account of himself in losing a 10 round unanimous decision to unbeaten Joseph Diaz, Jr. The loss snapped a seven-bout winning streak for Robles.
In the main event of the Golden Boy Promotions card, junior featherweight Manuel ‘Tino’ Avila (16-0, 7 KOs) will fight late-sub Erik Ruiz (13-2, 6 KOs) in a 10 round bout.
Thursday night will mark the third installment of the ‘L.A. Fight Club’ series.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for Boxingscene.com since September of 2012 and has covered boxing in Southern California and abroad since 2000. Francisco also covers boxing for the Ventura County (CA) Star newspaper, RingTV, and Knockout Nation. He can be reached by email at santio89@yahoo.com or on Twitter at FSalazarBoxing
