Featherweight Luis Alberto Lopez defeated fringe contender Ray Ximenez by technical decision late Thursday night at Legends Casino in Toppernish, Washington. The win marked fifth in a row for Lopez, who resides in Tijuana, Mexico. Ximenez was the favorite going into the fight, but was unable to put forth a consistent offense against the awkward and aggressive Lopez.
Leon Bauer (15-0-1, 9 KOs) has signed a contract extension with promoter Team Sauerland as the 20 year-old super middleweight continues his promising career on April 6 at the CongressPark in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Roy Jones, Jr. (RJJ) Boxing proudly announces the signing of Dallas featherweight prospect Ray Ximenez, Jr. to a long-term, exclusive promotional contract. Riding a five-fight win streak, the 25-year-old Ximenez (18-1, 4 KOs) is expected to make his RJJ Boxing debut in March.
Summer in Texas is no joke, and neither is the homegrown talent residing in the Lone Star State. With night time temperatures occasionally hovering close to 100 degrees, it’s risky putting on an outdoor fight card. Nonetheless, the ambition of Blue Chip Promotions, in association with Montoya Boxing Gym, paid off Saturday evening, July 28th. Held at the Main Street Garden Park, in front of the historic Statler hotel, in downtown Dallas, “The Rumble in the Park” left no one disappointed. In fact, talks of a sequel were in motion and all but promised prior to the main event, which featured homegrown prospect, Ray Ximenez.
Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas - Featherweight Ray Ximenez (17-1, 4 KOs) pulled out a win in the headline bout of a Roy Jones Boxing card, with a tough eight round unanimous decision over late replacement Eugene Lagos (12-4-2, 7 KOs), who replaced John Vincente Moralde.
An injury kept the WBC titlist Berchelt (32-1, 28 KO) from what likely would have been a victory over Orlando Salido in December. Now, the man who impressively bested Francisco Vargas and Takashi Miura gets active against the relatively unknown Awuku (44-3-1, 33 KO). Awuku has won four in a row since a decision loss to Daud Yordan in 2015. He’s never been stopped and Berchelt tends toward fun fights. On a slower weekend, this is an easy choice.
Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, Texas - Undefeated hometown prospect Ray Ximenez (13-0, 4KO) blasted out former sparring partner Eric Anton (4-3, 1KO) in the third round of a schedule eight in their battle for the Texas featherweight title to benefit the Ring of Hope Boxing Club.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Math class. English class. Science class. Lunch. It’s just another Tuesday at just another Texas high school. But while some join classmates at band practice or friends on the football field at day’s end, Ray Ximenez Jr. continues laying groundwork toward a far different post-commencement career: World champion boxer. “I’m just a regular kid, really, like anyone else there. I hang out with friends and I try to get good grades,” said the 18-year-old, a student at John Leslie Patton Jr. Academic Center in Dallas. “But when I get home, I go to the gym and I work. That’s my job and I don’t miss a day.” Ximenez punched the pro clock for the second time last week and was the star of ESPN’s pre-Super Bowl show, dominating Alfredo Berto for every second of four rounds en route to a unanimous decision in the second of a three-bout Friday Night Fights card at the Fort Worth Convention Center. The win, four months after his one-sided defeat of Cristoval Larrazolo in a nearby Grand Prairie debut, ran the precocious youngster’s record to 2-0 and warranted the nearly 12 straight minutes of praise it drew from an obviously impressed Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas. But even SportsCenter highlights won’t get him out of doing homework. “He’s a good kid. He’s focused. He doesn’t give us any trouble. And we want to make sure he stays that way,” said Ximenez’s watchful father, Ray Sr., who trains the youngest of his four children. “We try to strike a balance and we give him his freedom, and there’s never once been a problem.”