Roy Jones Jr. sets his next Washington card
Aug 21, 2024 • 2:49 AM ET
Being designated a main-event fighter by Roy Jones Jr. is all the promotion India’s Mandeep Jangra needs as he looks to extend his unbeaten start by headlining Jones’ next Legends Casino card, Sept. 19 in Toppenish, Wash.
Super-featherweight Jangra (10-0, 7 KOs) trains under Jones in Pensacola, Fla., and the Hall of Fame fighter’s fondness for the fighter has increased with three consecutive stoppage victories.
On Sept. 19, Jangra meets Nilo Guerrero (9-0, 7 KOs), a Nicaraguan who resides in Coachella, Calif.
The Jones-promoted card includes another fighter promising to Jones in women’s super-lightweight Ijram Kerway (14-3, 5 KOs), a former judo practitioner from her native Tunisia who later immigrated to Germany and is now the mother of two.
Kerwat’s opponent has yet to be finalized.
Tickets range from $40 to $60, and the bout will be streamed at globalsportsstreaming.com.
Lance Pugmire is BoxingScene’s senior U.S. writer and an assistant producer for ProBox TV. Pugmire has covered boxing since the early 2000s, first at the Los Angeles Times and then at The Athletic and USA Today. He won the Boxing Writers’ Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award in 2022 for career excellence.
Lance Pugmire has been a full-time boxing writer for nearly 20 years, serving now as BoxingScene’s U.S. Senior Writer and assistant producer for ProBoxTV’s “BoxingScene Today.” Pugmire capped a near 20-year career at the Los Angeles Times (sports investigations, NHL/MLB beat work, law enforcement/courts and boxing/UFC) to join The Athletic, and then USA Today. Pugmire’s stint at The Times started with the first Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez fight and the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jnr then-record pay-per-view, leading through a slew of ringside assignments at major bouts, including Mayweather-Pacquiao, Mayweather-Canelo and the Canelo-Golovkin trilogy. Lance’s appreciation for boxing is rooted in his admiration and appreciation for the fighters, gladiators who have proven to be the most forthcoming and candid of all the athletes he has interviewed over a career dating to 1990. Lance was honored to be named the 2022 winner of the Boxing Writers Association of America Nat Fleischer Award for career excellence and he’s collected many BWAA writing awards in categories ranging from breaking news to deep-dive long features.
