“There is good information and an interesting fight for my boxer,” said Billy Nelson, coach of Martin Bacole (15-1, 12 KOs) yesterday. Today this information was announced by the promoter Eddie Hearn.
Undefeated lightweight Gabriel Flores Jr. (18-0, 6 KOs) scored a one-sided victory by unanimous decision over Josec Ruiz (21-3-3, 14 KOs) in the main event of the Top Rank evening at the MGM Arena in Las Vegas. In the second round Ruiz was on the floor. The scores were 100-89 all the board.
Robeisy Ramirez (3-1, 3 KOs) is the two-time Olympic champion, but his professional debut began with a terrible disaster. The underrated Adan Gonzalez (5-2-2, 2 KOs) sent the titled Cuban to the floor in the first round and won by unanimous decision. And now the great loser of this fight will get a chance for a rematch in two weeks.
The live broadcast of the boxing event from Las Vegas, in the main event of which former world champion in two weight categories Jose Pedraza will have his second fight in the super lightweight division against former challenger for the title Mikkel LesPierre.
In early June, the lawyers of Dillian Whyte (27-1, 18 KOs) sent an official letter to the WBC asking them to provide guarantees that the date of the bout of the Briton for the world heavyweight title clash would not change. Whyte wants to cross gloves with Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder who will fight for the WBC title at the end of the year.
In the coming months Oleksandr Usyk (17-0, 13 KOs) will have to meet Derek Chisora (32-9, 23 KOs) in his second fight in the heavyweight category. If the Ukrainian wins, his team is ready to forth a duel against Anthony Joshua (23-1, 21 KOs) as the WBO contender. Usyk said that he would not wait for the outcome of two fights planned for next year of AJ and WBC champion Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs).
Mike Plania (24-1, 12 KOs) scored rather unexpected victory over the first number of the WBO bantamweight ratings Joshua Greer Jr. (22-2-1, 12 KOs) in the main event of the evening in the Top Rank's Bubble at the arena of MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Already in the first round, Greer visited the floor after a left hook to the head. After the same blow, Greer was again on the floor in the sixth round. Greer tried to snatch the ending, but it was already too late. The scores were 94-94, 96-92, 97-91. Before the fight, Greer's chances of winning were regarded as 3 to 1.
Eddie Hearn plans to return to organizing boxing evenings in the United States on August 15. July 25 Matchroom Boxing wants to return with its first tournaments after a break in the UK.
Live broadcast of the boxing event from Las Vegas, in the main event of which there will be a 10-round bout in the super bantamweight division of Joshua Greer Jr. (22-1-1, 12 KOs) and Mike Plania (23-1, 12 KOs).
Bob Arum has an idea: to organize a fight of mandatory challengers standing in the way of a unification meeting for four heavyweight belts of Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) and Anthony Joshua (23-1, 21 KOs).
