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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s fixing to be a busy weekend in Las Vegas.
Ex-welterweight champs Adrien Broner and Shawn Porter will bring their 144-pound acts to the MGM Grand for NBC’s cameras on Saturday night, while two more former title-holders – Rances Barthelemy at 130 and Antonio DeMarco at 135 – will share its ring for CBS viewers a day later.
But while a crowded TV bill won’t include Lanell Bellows, he’s still planning to put on a big show.
The 29-year-old super middleweight will engage with veteran trial horse Marcus Upshaw in a scheduled eight-rounder on Sunday’s undercard at the MGM – his fourth career appearance at a venue where he’d previously fought on a trio of Floyd Mayweather Jr. shows.
The Missouri-born Bellows scored early stoppages as warm-ups for Mayweather’s defeats of Robert Guerrero, Canelo Alvarez and Marcos Maidana, and he’s performed in Las Vegas on four other occasions as part of a pro run that actually began with three fights in Phoenix in 2012.
He was 6-0-1 with five early wins before suffering his lone loss – via majority decision to Eddie Hunter in a six-rounder in Shelton, Wash. in December 2013. He’s since responded with six more victories to get to 12-1-1 overall, including a unanimous eight-round nod over Hunter on April 30. [Click Here To Read More]
Ex-welterweight champs Adrien Broner and Shawn Porter will bring their 144-pound acts to the MGM Grand for NBC’s cameras on Saturday night, while two more former title-holders – Rances Barthelemy at 130 and Antonio DeMarco at 135 – will share its ring for CBS viewers a day later.
But while a crowded TV bill won’t include Lanell Bellows, he’s still planning to put on a big show.
The 29-year-old super middleweight will engage with veteran trial horse Marcus Upshaw in a scheduled eight-rounder on Sunday’s undercard at the MGM – his fourth career appearance at a venue where he’d previously fought on a trio of Floyd Mayweather Jr. shows.
The Missouri-born Bellows scored early stoppages as warm-ups for Mayweather’s defeats of Robert Guerrero, Canelo Alvarez and Marcos Maidana, and he’s performed in Las Vegas on four other occasions as part of a pro run that actually began with three fights in Phoenix in 2012.
He was 6-0-1 with five early wins before suffering his lone loss – via majority decision to Eddie Hunter in a six-rounder in Shelton, Wash. in December 2013. He’s since responded with six more victories to get to 12-1-1 overall, including a unanimous eight-round nod over Hunter on April 30. [Click Here To Read More]
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