Pick it: Oscar Collazo vs. Jayson Vayson, Gabriela Fundora vs. Alexas Kubicki,
When to Watch: Saturday, September 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (1 a.m. BST)
Why to Watch: This show features Oscar Collazo, who is a unified titleholder in the men’s strawweight division, and Gabriela Fundora, who is the women’s undisputed flyweight champion.
Collazo, 12-0 (9 KOs), is a 28-year-old from Puerto Rico who rules at 105lbs as the unified WBA and WBO titleholder and Ring Magazine champion. He will be making his sixth title defense.
Collazo was 6-0 when he stopped Melvin Jerusalem for the WBO belt in May 2023; Jerusalem remains in the picture, having since captured the WBC title. Collazo’s defenses included a wide decision win over contender Gerardo Zapata in June 2024 and then an impressive seventh-round stoppage last November to seize Knockout CP Freshmart’s WBA belt. In his only other bout of 2025, Collazo dispatched the 13-2-1 Edwin Cano Hernandez with a body shot in March.
Vayson, 14-1-1 (8 KOs), is returning to the strawweight division after competing in heavier weight classes. He’s been mostly at 108lbs, though there was a trip to flyweight in early 2023 for a shutout defeat to Seigo Yuri Akui, who went on to capture and then lose a world title at 112lbs.
Vayson, a 27-year-old from the Philippines, has won four in a row since then, the most notable victories coming against former strawweight titleholder Ryuya Yamanaka (TKO2 in December 2023) and the 4-0 Takeru Inoue (UD10 in April 2024). In his last fight, Vayson took out the 4-1-1 Jirawat Aiamong in less than two rounds in March.
The co-feature will see undisputed flyweight champion Gabriela Fundora, 16-0 (8 KOs), return for her fifth title defense. Fundora won the IBF belt in October 2023, stopped Gabriela Alaniz last November to add the remaining three titles, and is coming off a seventh-round TKO of the 19-0-1 Marilyn Badillo Amaya in April.
Fundora’s originally scheduled foe, Ayelen Granadino, 12-2-4 (1 KO), was denied a visa to enter the United States for this fight at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. In steps Alexas Kubicki, 13-1 (2 KOs), who is coming off a 10-round decision win in May over the 8-0 Alondra Yamile Hernandez Mendoza.
Among the prospects on the undercard are welterweight Joel Iriarte, 8-0 (7 KOs), and junior welterweight Ruslan Abdullaev, 2-0 (1 KO), who competed in the 2024 Olympics, losing to eventual bronze medalist Wyatt Sanford.
More Fights to Watch
Thursday, September 18: Liam Paro vs. David Papot (Main Event on Kayo Sports)
The broadcast begins at 7 p.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time (5 a.m. Eastern Time in the U.S., 10 a.m. BST in the U.K).
This is an elimination bout for the IBF welterweight belt newly won by Lewis Crocker. Liam Paro is ranked seventh and David Papot is eighth.
Paro, 26-1 (16 KOs), is a former junior welterweight titleholder who won the IBF belt at 140lbs from Subriel Matias in June 2024 and then lost it in December to Richardson Hitchins. This is his second fight since. This past June, Paro stopped the 18-1 Jonathan Navarro after five rounds. The 29-year-old from Brisbane, Australia, will be headlining in his hometown at Pat Rafter Arena at the Queensland Tennis Centre.
Papot, 30-0-1 (5 KOs), is a 34-year-old from France. It’s possible that his lack of knockout power was exacerbated by competing in heavier weight classes for most of his career. After spending most of his career at junior middleweight and middleweight, Parrot dropped down within the welterweight limit in April 2024 and outpointed the 17-0-1 Jon Miguez. His last fight was last November, when Papot scored a rare stoppage, taking out the 18-0 Josh Wagner in the seventh round.
The undercard includes lightweight Liam Wilson, 16-3 (8 KOs), against Jorge Santana, 15-1 (9 KOs). Wilson suffered a ninth-round TKO loss to Emanuel Navarrete in a bout for a vacant junior lightweight belt in February 2023, and he was dispatched in the seventh round by Oscar Valdez in an interim title bout in March 2024.
Also on this show: junior middleweight Brock Jarvis, 23-2 (21 KOs), is back for the second time since his TKO3 loss to Keith Thurman in March; and Paolo Aokuso, 8-0 (4 KOs), a light heavyweight who competed in the Olympics in 2021, will face Shukhrat Abdullaev, 5-0 (4 KOs).
Friday, September 19: Brandon Moore vs. DeAndre Savage (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (1 a.m. BST).
Moore, 18-1 (10 KOs), is a heavyweight prospect who was stopped by Richard Torrez in May 2024. Moore’s won four in a row since then.
This will be Moore’s third fight of 2025. Strangely enough, both of his bouts so far this year ended early without concluding via KO or TKO. There was an ugly, bizarre eighth-round disqualification win over the 8-0-2 Skylar Lacy in February. And then there was his bout against the 14-0 Stanley Wright in May, when Moore suffered a cut and took a five-round technical decision.
Moore, a 31-year-old from Florida, stands 6-foot-6 and has been weighing in recently between 249-257lbs. He has the size of many modern heavyweights. But does he have what it takes to be a contender? The loss to Torrez would suggest otherwise. And a win over Savage, while another unbeaten foe, isn’t a significant step forward.
Savage, 10-0 (10 KOs), is a 34-year-old from Flint, Michigan, now living in Las Vegas. Interestingly, while Moore is the house fighter signed with Salita Promotions, it is Savage whose hometown is about an hour away from this show at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Still, while the 6-foot-3 Savage has an impressive record on paper, only one of his 10 opponents had more wins than losses, and that foe was a mere 2-0. The combined records of Savage’s opponents so far: 38-68-8.
The co-feature has the WBC’s vacant women’s middleweight title on the line. Competing for it are Olivia Curry, 7-2-1 (2 KOs), and Kaye Scott, 4-1 (0 KOs). Curry lost a decision at super middleweight to Shadasia Green in 2023; Green has since become a unified titleholder at 168lbs. And in Scott’s last outing, she dropped a decision to Desley Robinson in December in a bout for the vacant IBF belt at 160lbs.
Friday, September 19: Kevin Brown vs. Juan Meza Angulo (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (11 p.m. BST).
This show at the Caribe Royale Orlando in Florida features junior welterweight prospect Kevin Brown, as well as former heavyweight contender Luis Ortiz, lightweight prospect Kaipo Gallegos and junior middleweight prospect Antraveous Ingram.
Brown, 7-0 (3 KOs), is a 31-year-old originally from Cuba who now lives in Las Vegas. One of his two wins in 2024 saw him come off the canvas to take a split decision over the 12-2 Idalberto Umara. This will be Brown’s second fight of 2025; in April, he outpointed the 14-2 Esteuri Suero.
Angulo, 9-2 (6 KOs), is a 26-year-old from Mexico.
Ortiz, 34-3 (29 KOs), is now 46 years old and is fighting for just the second time since his close decision loss to Andy Ruiz in September 2022. Ortiz has only boxed 106 seconds in that three-year period, dating back to a quick win in January 2024 over the 41-18 Francisco Cordero.
Ortiz’s foe is Phillip Penson, 8-4-3 (2 KOs).
Gallegos, 9-0-1 (7 KOs), will face divisional measuring stick Alberto Machado, 17-8-1 (4 KOs), who has lost to the likes of Lamont Roach, Chris Colbert, O’Shaquie Foster, Floyd Schofield and, most recently, the 9-0 Jacob Marrero.
Ingram, 11-0 (5 KOs), is due to take on Jeremiah Robinson, 8-6 (8 KOs), who was taken out in two rounds by Evan Holyfield just last month.
Saturday, September 20: Breyon Gorham vs. Yomar Alamo (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (1 a.m. BST).
Gorham, 20-0 (16 KOs), is a junior welterweight prospect from Houston, Texas, where the 24-year-old will headline at the Bayou Music Center. This will be Gorham’s second fight of 2025. In May, he won a unanimous decision over the 17-2 Luis Feliciano.
If you remember Alamo, 22-4-1 (13 KOs), it is because the 30-year-old from Puerto Rico has been in with a handful of familiar names. When Alamo was still unbeaten, he dropped Liam Paro in the opening round and wound up losing a narrow split decision in December 2021; Paro, of course, went on to win a world title at 140lbs.
Since then, Alamo was stopped after eight rounds with Richardson Hitchins in 2022, returned in 2024 with a pair of confidence-building victories, wrapped that year with a decision loss to Delante “Tiger” Johnson and, this past March, lost on the scorecards to Jamaine Ortiz.
In the co-feature, featherweight titleholder Tiara Brown, 19-0 (11 KOs), will make the first defense of the WBC belt she seized in March from Skye Nicolson. Her foe is Emma Gongora, 10-3-1 (1 KO), who is ranked 14th by the sanctioning body.
Also scheduled for this show: junior welterweight prospect Giovanni Marquez, 13-0 (6 KOs), will take on Wesley Ferrer, 17-2-1 (8 KOs); and lightweight prospect Oscar Alan Perez, 13-0-2 (7 KOs), will meet Malik Lewis, 8-1 (5 KOs).
Saturday, September 20: Junior Younan vs. Luka Lozo (StarBoxing.TV)
The broadcast begins at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time (12:30 a.m. BST).
Younan, 21-0-1 (13 KOs), is a super middleweight prospect who will be headlining for the third straight time at The Paramount in Long Island, New York. Younan’s draw came in 2018 against Ronald Ellis, who went on to lose to familiar names such as David Benavidez, Christian Mbilli and Erik Bazinyan.
This will be the first fight in 371 days for Younan, a 29-year-old from Brooklyn. His last match was in September 2024, when he took out the 15-9 Alexis Gaytan in five rounds. Younan was supposed to box this past March; that fight was canceled when his opponent, the 18-3-1 Abel Mina, refused to leave his hotel room for the weigh-in.
Younan will face Lozo, 13-3-2 (12 KOs), a 29-year-old from Croatia. He has gone 4-0-1 since getting shut out by middleweight prospect Eric Priest on the August 2024 undercard of Serhii Bohachuk-Vergil Ortiz. The draw was a six-rounder in February with the very old (44), very faded (29-14-1) version of Elvin Ayala. That was followed by a TKO8 of a 16-9-1 opponent and a TKO1 of an 0-4 foe.
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.
