Short of fighting for a title in the world’s deepest division, Serhii Bohachuk most longs to remove the blemishes from his record.
On the high-profile Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford card from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on September 13, Ukraine’s Bohachuk, 26-2 (24 KOs), will have that opportunity in a junior-middleweight rematch against Brandon Adams, a former “The Contender” winner who stopped him in the eighth round of their bout in Puerto Rico in 2021.
Two sources with knowledge of the bout informed BoxingScene about it on Saturday. At the time of his stoppage against Adams, Bohachuk, 30, was leading on all three scorecards via scores of 68-64, 69-63, 68-64 and he sought to finish Adams when unexpectedly rocked and was stopped himself.
Bohachuk-Adams II is expected to round out the primary three-fight undercard supporting the undisputed super-middleweight bout between four-division champions Alvarez and Crawford – likely replacing a lower-profile catchweight bout between Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Alakel and John Ornelas.
A junior-middleweight clash between the unbeaten pair Callum Walsh and Fernando Vargas Jnr, and a super-middleweight bout between another unbeaten pair in Christian Mbilli and Lester Martinez, has been reserved for the primary undercard.
Bohachuk is the number-one-ranked WBC 154lbs contender under the champion Sebastian Fundora and the interim champion Vergil Ortiz Jnr, who edged Bohachuk by majority decision in August 2024.
While Bohachuk fervently wants another crack at Ortiz after knocking him down twice, he’s confided to associates that he learned the most by losing to Adams.
The 36-year-old Adams, 25-4 (16 KOs), has fought just three times since defeating Bohachuk – including, most recently appearance, his loss in November 2024 to Andreas Katzourakis. In 2019, he lost a unanimous decision to then-WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo.
For Bohachuk, who has been training in Big Bear Lake, California, the opportunity to avenge the loss and gain the exposure on this card is too rich to bypass.
