By Keith Idec
Mauricio Herrera has every reason to feel confident about beating Hank Lundy on Saturday night in Los Angeles.
The hard-luck junior welterweight contender from Riverside, California, is sure he has beaten better boxers than Lundy (25-4-1, 12 KOs), even if he wasn’t credited with winning fights against Danny Garcia (30-0, 17 KOs) and Jose Benavidez (23-0, 16 KOs) in 2014.
“In Philly, Lundy’s hometown, they know who I am,” Herrera (21-5, 7 KOs) said during the final press conference for Saturday’s card at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. “They know that I beat Danny Garcia. They’re gonna know that I beat Lundy as well.
“Lundy’s going to find out he’s in there with a real monster. [Ruslan] Provodnikov couldn’t take me down, Danny Garcia couldn’t take me down, Benavidez couldn’t take me down. Lundy won’t take me down. I will win July 11th – mark my words. I’m gonna come out champion that night.”
The Herrera-Lundy bout, a 10-rounder for the NABF 140-pound title, will headline an HBO Latino telecast scheduled to start at 11 p.m. ET.
Keith Idec covers boxing for The Record and Herald News, of Woodland Park, N.J., and BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.