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Chinese giant Zhilei Zhang had few problems in shocking Joe Joyce earlier this year at the Copper Box. Back in April, Zhang captured the WBO interim-heavyweight title - and handed Joyce his first career defeat - with a stoppage win in the sixth round.
Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas - Mirco Cuello, a 2020 Argentine Olympian with a fun, aggressive style, pounded out a tough, 10-round unanimous decision win against the willing Rudy Garcia in their featherweight bout, handing Garcia his first loss. Cuello won by three scores of 99-90, 99-90 and 99-90 to improve to 13-0 with 11 KOs as Garcia dropped to 13-1-1 with 2 KOs.
Frank Warren, promoter WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is expecting a shootout when his boxer steps in the ring for a non-title fight with former UFC champion Francis Ngannou.
At the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, Puerto Rican junior middleweight phenom Xander Zayas (17-0, 10 KOs) scored a fifth-round TKO victory against hard-hitting Mexican Roberto Valenzuela Jr. (21-5, 20 KOs) in tonight’s co-feature.
Luis Alberto “El Venado” Lopez (29-2, 16 KOs) kicked off Mexican Independence Day Weekend by defending his IBF Featherweight World Title against former two-time world title challenger Joet Gonzalez (26-4, 15 KOs) Friday evening at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
San Antonio’s Ramon Cardenas thrilled his hometown fans with a picture-perfect performance, employing a textbook left-hook to drop, stop and upset Rafael Pedroza in the second round to win his debut on ShoBox Friday night in the main event live on Showtime from Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is not motivated by capturing more world titles. On October 28th in Saudi Arabia, Fury will return to the ring in crossover boxing match against former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou. Fury's title will not be at stake.
Former cruiserweight world champion Tony Bellew is backing welterweight contender Conor Benn to overcome and defeat middleweight Chris Eubank Jr. Earlier this month in Manchester, the 33-year-old Eubank dominated and stopped former world champion Liam Smith in the tenth round.
Auditorio Municipal Fausto Gutiérrez Moreno, Tijuana - In the main event, a battle of lightweights saw fire-fight, with Angel Fierro (22-1-2, 7 KOs) getting all he could handle with a ten round split decision over Brayan Zamarripa (13-2, 4 KOs).
Eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao, 44-years-old, is standing firm that he wants to pursue an Olympic gold medal at the 2024 Paris games.