Rene Tellez Giron will face off against Luis Torres in a main event on February 27 at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.
The show will stream on ProBox TV, according to a post on the promoter’s Instagram account. (Note: BoxingScene and ProBox are both owned by Garry Jonas.)
Tellez, 22-5 (13 KOs), is coming off a unanimous decision victory this past September over the 19-1 Jordan White. The 26-year-old Tellez came in overweight for that bout, which wasn’t the first time that he blew past a contractual agreement on the scale and then capitalized on that advantage within the ring.
Whether an intentional tactic or an alarming coincidence, Tellez has been able to ride his successes to a No. 9 ranking at lightweight with the WBO.
Torres, 22-1 (13 KOs), is a 24-year-old who, like his opponent, hails from Mexico. He suffered his sole defeat in October 2023, when he was stopped in the third round by the 18-3-1 Claudio Gabriel Daneff.
Torres is on a four-fight winning streak, which included TKO victories last year over a faded Nicholas Walters and the 18-1 Jonhatan Cardoso, the latter coming on the same card as Tellez Giron’s win over White. Torres is currently slotted 13th at 135lbs by the WBA.
Also announced for this show: welterweight Ruben Aguilar, 23-0-1 (20 KOs), against Luis Lopez, 16-2-4 (5 KOs); and former featherweight and junior lightweight title challenger Edward Vazquez, 18-3 (5 KOs), against Grimardi Machuca, 17-3 (14 KOs), who will try to break a streak of three consecutive losses.
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