Jack Tepora: record, next fight and profile →
LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao and Adrien Broner spent most of this week cracking jokes and smiling while promoting their fight. Both boxers stood, stone-faced, as they stared at one another Friday afternoon at a weigh-in that drew a few thousand fans to MGM Grand Garden Arena. Pacquiao eventually cracked a smile before they parted ways.
Warren, Tepora, Ruiz Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - Before they enter the ring on the undercard of this Saturday’s Pacquiao vs. Broner SHOWTIME PPV® event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, fighters competing in PPV action squared-off against their opponents at the final press conference Thursday in Las Vegas. (Photos by Cynthia Vance, Chris Farina).
Badou Jack, Marcus Browne Grand Arrivals Photos Gallery - Two of boxing biggest stars kicked off fight week in style on Tuesday as eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and four-division world champion Adrien Broner arrived at MGM Grand in Las Vegas to a throng of excited fans for this Saturday’s WBA Welterweight World Championship. (photos by Ryan Hafey/Chris Farina).
Hugo 'Cuatito' Ruiz is very hungry to win the WBA belt on January 19 when he faces unbeaten Filipino Jack "The Captain" Tepora at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada; as part of the Showtime Pay-Per-View undercard headlined by the welterweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao and Adrien Broner.
Mexican Hugo Ruiz, a former interim 118- and full 122-pound champion, plans to dethrone unbeaten WBA interim 126-pound titlist Jhack Tepora by knockout in his division debut on the January 19 Manny Pacquiao-Adrien Broner undercard at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Showtime Pay-Per-View.
Two-division world champion Badou Jack will battle unbeaten top-rated contender Marcus Browne for the WBA Interim Light Heavyweight Title Saturday, January 19 on the Manny Pacquiao vs. Adrien Broner SHOWTIME PPV® event from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Another Filipino southpaw won by knockout Saturday night before Manny Pacquiao challenged Lucas Matthysse. Unbeaten featherweight Jhack Tepora stopped Mexico’s Edivaldo Ortega in the ninth round of their fight for a vacant version of the WBA’s featherweight championship. Tepora (22-0, 17 KOs) dropped Ortega (26-2-1, 12 KOs) with a right uppercut in the ninth round on the Pacquiao-Matthysse undercard at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The president of the World Boxing Association, Gilberto Mendoza, has revealed that Puerto Rico's Jesus Rojas was elevated to the stats of "regular" champion in the featherweight division. He'll make the first defense of that title on August 11 in California against once-beaten United States Olympian Joseph 'JoJo' Diaz.
"Mexican Emmanuel "Veneno" Domínguez (21-5-2, 13 KO's) is a high risk factor for Jack Tepora,” affirmed promoter Pio Paulo Castillo of Cebu’s Omega Gym about his fighter's upcoming WBO 122-lbs Oriental Title defense against the Mexican Super Bantamweight National Champion on Friday July 7 at Island City Mall in Tagbilaran, Bohol.