The quarter-finals for Season II of the World Boxing Super Series were set for the tournament’s Super-Lightweight and Bantamweight brackets at a Draft Gala Friday night at the Rossiya Theatre in Moscow.
Fighting in front of a home audience, WBC interim light welterweight champion Regis “Rougarou” Prograis (22-0, 19 KOs) knocked the over-matched previously undefeated Juan Jose Velasco (20-1, 12 KOs) in the 8th round on Saturday night on ESPN Boxing in a three knockdown performance at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana.
REGIS “Rougarou” PROGRAIS (United States)
WBC Interim Super Lightweight World Champion
Age: 29 / Date of birth: January 24, 1989
Residence: Houston, Texas / Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana.
The winner of WBC Interim World Champion Regis Prograis vs top challenger Juan Jose Velasco on July 14 will enter the 140lb edition of the second season of the World Boxing Super Series.
We have been treated to two quite superb tournaments in the still-ongoing Word Boxing Classic Super Series; the cruiserweight and super-middleweight tournaments being boxing at its very best.
Undefeated Interim WBC Super Lightweight Champion Regis “Rougarou” Prograis swung open the doors to his last workout in Los Angeles to the Southern California media earlier this week at the Wild Card West Boxing Gym in Santa Monica, CA.
Undefeated 140-pound contender Regis Prograis scored a sensational second-round knockout over former unified world champion Julius Indongo to capture the Interim WBC Super Lightweight title Friday night on SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION from Deadwood Mountain Grand in Deadwood, S.D.
Undefeated 140-pound contender Regis Prograis and former unified world champion Julius Indongo made weight on Thursday ahead of their 12-round main event of SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION for the vacant Interim WBC Super Lightweight World Championship on Friday, March 9, on SHOWTIME at 10 p.m.
Undefeated super lightweight Regis Prograis made an emphatic statement Friday on ShoBox: The New Generation, knocking down previously undefeated Joel Diaz Jr.
Regis Prograis dominated previously undefeated Abel Ramos en route to a ninth-round TKO in the main event of ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME on Friday at Bayou City Event Center in Houston.