Ramon Cardenas will be back in the ring seven and a half months after standing in with one of the best fighters in the world.
Cardenas put Naoya Inoue on the canvas in the second round of their May 4 clash and continued to battle it out with “The Monster,” only for the undisputed junior featherweight champion to take over, drop Cardenas in the seventh and stop him in the eighth.
Cardenas, now 26-2 (14 KOs), is scheduled to headline a December 19 show at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He will face Erik Robles, 16-3, in the main event of a show streaming on ProBox TV.
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This will mark a return to the platform for Cardenas, a 30-year-old from San Antonio, Texas, who is ranked second by the WBA and fifth by the WBC. He appeared on a few ProBox shows prior to meeting Inoue, including a unanimous decision this past February over the 20-0 Bryan Acosta.
The unranked Robles has dropped two of his last three. He was dispatched midway through the second round by Liam Davies in March 2024, scored a two-round win of his own against the 15-5-3 Misael Gracia Acevedo last November, and was outpointed by the 22-2 Jesus Eduardo Arechiga Valdez this past March.
Also scheduled for this show is a super middleweight fight between Hebert Conceicao, 9-0 (5 KOs), who won Olympic gold in 2021, and Paul Kroll, 12-0-2 (8 KOs).
The undercard will include a junior welterweight bout featuring Mykquan Williams, 22-1-2 (11 KOs), against Jair Valtierra, 18-3 (9 KOs); and a pairing of middleweights Marques Valle, 11-1 (8 KOs), and Joeshon James, 9-1-2 (5 KOs).
David Greisman, who has covered boxing since 2004, is on Twitter @FightingWords2. David’s book, “Fighting Words: The Heart and Heartbreak of Boxing,” is available on Amazon.
