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Unbeaten prospect Jeremy Hill will face Travis Castellon tonight, manager Adam Glenn told BoxingScene Thursday night. The eight-round junior welterweight bout will take place at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The COVID-19 pandemic. Promotional deals aligned with Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions (PBC). Networks deals with ESPN and FOX/ Showtime. At least one, or a combination of all three aforementioned reasons are given by boxing fans why a clash between Terence Crawford and Errol Spence has not been made.
Junior Cruzat battered Juan Jimenez Friday night, dropping him four times before the fight was stopped in round three at the Gimnasio Fiscal in his hometown of Llanquihue, Chile. With the win, Cruzat improves to 8-0, 5 knockouts.
Former two-time world junior middleweight titleholder Cornelius Bundrage stopped journeyman Antoine Elerson Saturday night at the Elks Lodge in Bonita Springs, Florida. With the victory, Bundrage, who resides in Southfield, Michigan, improves to 37-6, 21 knockouts.
Sign up Devin Haney for a fight against undisputed Teofimo Lopez in 2021. As far as Haney is concerned, he is not one to shy away from a fight against any of the top lightweights in the division, including Ryan Garcia and Gervonta Davis.
Tonight at the Omega Products International Event Center in Corona, CA, Thompson Boxing Promotions hosted the third edition of its 3.2.1. Boxing series. In the 8-round main event, Israel "Bad Ways" Mercado (9-0, 7 KOs) remained undefeated with a hard-fought unanimous decision against Mike Sanchez (6-1-1, 2 KOs), of Colton, Ca.
Sulem Urbina will always fight the good fight, in and out of the ring. Urbina does not mince words and freely tells things as it is, which may rub people the wrong way in a male-dominated sport. That is okay with Urbina. She may be outspoken in terms of issues in the sport, but has done exceptionally well thus far as a prizefighter and hopes for more opportunities in 2021, including a shot at a world title belt.
Tureano Johnson is facing a younger and stronger foe in Jaime Munguia Friday night, but do not tell him he has zero chance of winning. Instead, Johnson will state he has the edge in terms of other noteworthy intangibles and plans to defeat the unbeaten former world junior middleweight titleholder and contend for a world title belt in 2021.
Rather than choose retirement, Gonzalez took time off to reflect, regrouped, and again won a world title belt at 115 pounds. Few people would have envisioned Gonzalez winning a world title again, especially in a talented junior bantamweight division, which includes Juan Francisco Estrada.
Rudy Ochoa hopes to follow in the same footsteps as famous fighters who grew in the boxing hotbed of Oxnard, California. Who knows whether Ochoa could pan out to be another Robert Garcia, Fernando Vargas, or Mikey Garcia, but the unbeaten lightweight is moving in the right direction.