Kenny Sims Jnr is awaiting a fight date and he hopes it is against his rival Oscar Duarte. 

Sims Jnr was originally set to fight Duarte last November as a part of Golden Boy Promotions “Latino Night.” A leg injury forced him to withdraw from the fight, however.

Sims, 22-2-1 (8 KOs), is now on a nine-fight winning streak after a 10-round unanimous decision over Kendo Castaneda in February on a card headlined by Duarte, 29-2-1 (23 KOs), who himself has won three in a row.  Sims has been irked by the social media trolling after he was forced to withdraw from their November bout due to an injury.

“I want that fight because it isn’t personal, but I just don't like the internet stuff,” Sims told BoxingScene. “If you're going to talk on the internet, we were scheduled to fight, but I had bursitis in both knees. I couldn't walk for a couple of weeks, so that set me back.”

Sims, a 31-year-old training in Las Vegas, explained that before his last fight he didn’t want a tune-up fight. He wanted to get right back in the mix and preferably against the 29-year-old Duarte. 

“The day they called me for the fight and offered it to me was the day my doctor cleared me to start back training,” Sims said. “I'm just hoping to fight Duarte because that was what was supposed to happen in the first place. He kept talking trash and trolling me. People have DM’ed me ever since I had to pull out of the fight because of the injury. It's not like I pulled out of the fight because I didn't want to fight. If I didn't want to fight, I wouldn't have signed the contract in the first place.”

Sims now awaits what is next in his career. Sims upset Elvis Rodriguez in 2021. He was involved in a fight of the year contender against Botirzhon Akhmedov in 2023, which he won by majority decision. Still, Sims feels that the previously ill-fated fight against Duarte - that pesky heavy-handed Mexican puncher from Parral, Mexico - has to be resolved. 

“That was the biggest opportunity of my entire career,” Sims said. “No way I'm backing out of that because I'm scared of somebody.”