The exciting nine-bout card is shaping up for the King's Promotions event that will take place on Tuesday night. November 21st at The Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Bethlehem, PA. In the main event, Frank De De Alba will take on battle-tested Ivan Najera in the ten-round super featherweight bout.
In the televised opener, undefeated welterweight Alex Saucedo (22-0, 14 KO), 142 ¼, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, picked up a blue collar eight-round decision over journeyman Claudinei Lacerda (17-15-1, 12 KO), 142 ½, of Sombrio, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
It is a crossroads bout tonight between Ray Beltran and Ivan Najera. A win keeps hopes alive for that fighter to fight another day, possibly in a big-money fight. A loss would have that fighter seriously contemplating their future in the sport.
Beltran vs. Najera and Saucedo vs. Lacerda will be televised from coast to coast in the United States tomorrow at 11 p.m. ET/PT on UniMas.
BoxingScene.com has been advised that a lightweight battle between former title challenger Ray Beltran (29-7-1) and Ivan Najera (16-2) is in the works for May 21st in Laredo, Texas
Felix Verdejo’s surgically repaired right hand feels fine going into his fight Friday night against Brazil’s Josenilson Dos Santos. That was hardly the case six months ago, when he was getting ready for his HBO debut. The popular Puerto Rican lightweight’s hand was so tender heading toward his eventual impressive unanimous-decision defeat of Ivan Najera, the 2012 Olympian’s handlers thought they’d have to pull Verdejo out of that 10-rounder in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
LAS VEGAS, NV.-- Say "adios" to the niceties. The main event fighters headlining this week's edition of MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV have only one thing on their minds -- their opponents! At their media workout at the Top Rank Gym today, the four young warriors -- super middleweights GILBERTO "Zurdo" RAMIREZ and GEVORG KHATCHIKIAN, and lightweights SAÚL "Kid Dynamite" RODRÍGUEZ and IVAN "Bam Bam" NAJERA, who boast a combined record of 88-2 (55 KOs) -- took time out to discuss their Friday night battles which will be televised live at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on truTV from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Here's what they had to say:
LAS VEGAS, NV.-- Say "adios" to the niceties. The main event fighters headlining this week's edition of MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV have only one thing on their minds -- their opponents! At their media workout at the Top Rank Gym today, the four young warriors -- super middleweights GILBERTO "Zurdo" RAMIREZ and GEVORG KHATCHIKIAN, and lightweights SAÚL "Kid Dynamite" RODRÍGUEZ and IVAN "Bam Bam" NAJERA, who boast a combined record of 88-2 (55 KOs) -- took time out to discuss their Friday night battles which will be televised live at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on truTV from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Here's what they had to say:
Gilberto Ramirez puts not only his unbeaten record but also a mandatory title shot on the line as he faces Netherland's Gevorg Khatchikian this Friday evening at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Both fighters made weight for the televised main event, which airs live on truTV. Ramirez tipped the scales at a lean and ripped 167.5 lbs., while the Khatchikian checked in at 167 lbs.
LAS VEGAS, NV. -- Say "adios" to the niceties. The main event fighters headlining this week's edition of MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV have only one thing on their minds -- their opponents! At their media workout at the Top Rank Gym today, the four young warriors -- super middleweights GILBERTO "Zurdo" RAMIREZ and GEVORG KHATCHIKIAN, and lightweights SAÚL "Kid Dynamite" RODRÍGUEZ and IVAN "Bam Bam" NAJERA, who boast a combined record of 88-2 (55 KOs) -- took time out to discuss their Friday night battles which will be televised live at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on truTV from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Here's what they had to say: