Michael Angel Perez: record, next fight and profile →
Mauricio Herrera and Hank Lundy are primed and ready for their crossroads bout Saturday evening in Los Angeles, California. The pair of hard-luck veterans easily made weight ahead of their main event. Herrera (21-5, 7KOs) tipped the scales at 139.4 lbs., while Lundy (25-4-1, 12KOs) weighed in at 139 lbs
A new opponent has been secured for Michael Perez on the July 11 HBO Latino-televised card at Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The resurgent junior welterweight contender from New Jersey will now take on Mexico’s Luis Sanchez in the evening’s chief support to a crossroads bout between Mauricio Herrera and Hank Lundy. Both bouts will air live on HBO Latino as part of a televised tripleheader. Sanchez is a late substitute for former lightweight contender Sharif Bogere, who was scratched from the show due to an undisclosed injury.
All fighters made weight for Tuesday’s show at 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, a card topped by a 10-round scrap between featherweights Eric Hunter and Rene Alvarado. Local-based Hunter (19-3, 10KOs) came in at 125.8 lb., while Nicaragua’s Alvarado (21-3, 14KOs) tipped the scales at 125.9 lb. Their bout airs live on Fox Sports 1, on a show presented by Golden Boy Promotions as a dedication to Bernard Hopkins-one of the greatest fighters in history to come out of the City of Brotherly Love—celebrating his 50th birthday earlier this month.
Adrien Broner returns home to Cincinnati for the first time in more than two years, as the former three-division champ faces Emannuel Taylor in a scheduled 12-round super lightweight bout. The bout headlines a Showtime-televised tripleheader, with Lucas Matthysse facing unbeaten Roberto Ortiz in the co-feature. Wins by Broner and Matthysse are supposed to set up a head-on collision either later this year or in early 2015. Rounding out the tripleheader, Andre Berto embarks on the comeback train. The former welterweight titlist returns to the ring following a 14-month recovery from injuries, hoping to put behind his upset stoppage loss to Jesus Soto Karass as he faces Steven Upsher Chambers in a 10-round bout.