It won’t just be the big men in action on the night of July 19th. Heavyweights rivals Oleksandr Usyk and Daniel Dubois will as we know collide in their rematch on July 19, this at Wembley in London, while the little guys will also be in action that same night.
As one door apparently closes, another one possibly opens. Fans of the lower-weight warriors of the sport, and of the who-doesn’t-love-watching-him, “Bam” Rodriguez in particular, will be keen to learn the news Ring Magazine has learned.
As soon as Galal Yafai had beaten, and beaten up Sunny Edwards in their flyweight fight on Saturday night, talk began regarding the possibility of Yafai, who won the WBC interim title at flyweight, going up and engaging in a massive fight with super-flyweight champ Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez.
Eddie Hearn says he wants to set up a fight between Galal Yafai and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez “One day” in the future following Yafai’s sixth-round TKO win over Sunny Edwards (21-2, 4 KOs) on Saturday night at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England.
IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (34-0, 29 KOs) had a tougher time than expected, beating his mandatory challenger Karen Chukhadzhian (24-3, 13 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night in their rematch at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) and Kark Chukhadzhian (24-2, 13 KOs) both made weight on Friday for their headliner this Saturday night, live on DAZN at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
Live from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Jaron Ennis and Jessie Rodriguez co-headline a card streaming on DAZN. Ennis is in the main event in a rematch with Karen Chukhadzhian in his hometown, so technically, he is rightfully at the top of the bill.
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis could move up to 154 on February 22nd to challenge Vergil Ortiz Jr. for his WBC interim junior middleweight title in a Riyadh Season event in Saudi Arabia.
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis defends the welterweight belt against his IBF mandatory Karen Chukhadzhian in a rematch on November 9th at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
A doubleheader between Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Karen Chukhadzhian and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez and Pedro Guevara is being discussed for November 9th in Philadelphia.