Liam Paro: record, next fight and profile →
Regis Prograis will need a new opponent for his planned homecoming. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that an undisclosed injury has forced Australia’s Liam Paro to withdraw from his planned challenge of Prograis’ WBC junior welterweight title. The bout was due to headline a June 17 DAZN show from Smoothie King Center in Prograis’ childhood hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Regis Prograis never got the sense that Top Rank could deliver the fights he wanted the most involving fighters under its own banner. The uncertainty surrounding the future of some of the promotional company’s top 140-pound fighters apparently helped convince Prograis to sign a deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom.
Eddie Hearn knew he needed to shore up his long moribund standing in the hot 140-pound division. With the announcement this past weekend that his company, Matchroom, signed Regis Prograis, the WBC champion, to a multi-fight promotional deal, Hearn has seemingly taken a significant step in trying to compete in one of boxing's more alluring weight classes.
The winner of the Josh Taylor-Teofimo Lopez title fight has one less option to worry about for the time being. Back-to-back failed efforts by the World Boxing Organization to produce a sanctioned junior welterweight title eliminator has prompted the sanctioning body to momentarily abandon the process. The latest effort saw Australia’s
Eddie Hearn acknowledged that rival promoter Top Rank offered Regis Prograis more money to sign with the company that represents many of the opponents Prograis has said he wants to fight.
A recent article by BoxingScene.com’s Jake Donovan confirmed that Arnold Barboza (28-0) declined a WBO junior welterweight title eliminator against Liam Paro (23-0).
WBC junior welterweight champion Regis Prograis (28-1, 24 KOs) was ringside at Akron Stadium in Mexico. He appeared during DAZN's broadcast for the Canelo Alvarez vs. John Ryder pay-per-view card, side by side with promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing - and confirmed BoxingScene.com's recent report that he signed a promotional deal with Matchroom.
Liam Paro will have another shot at the same team who previously bailed on an ordered title eliminator. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the WBO has formally ordered a final junior welterweight elimination bout between Australia’s Paro and former unified titlist Jose Ramirez. The development comes just five days after the
Liam Paro is already in search of a new opponent. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that unbeaten junior welterweight contender Arnold Barboza will no longer move forward with the ordered WBO junior welterweight title eliminator versus Paro. The development comes one day after Matchroom Boxing secured the rights to the final elimination bout through a purse bid hearing held Thursday at WBO headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Matchroom Boxing finally claimed victory in a purse bid hearing. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the UK-based promotional outfit secured the rights to the Liam Paro-Arnold Barboza WBO junior welterweight title eliminator. Matchroom submitted $303,000, outpacing Top Rank ($271,000) by more than $30,000 during Thursday’s purse bid hearing conducted via Zoom from WBO headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico.